The Hills of Lecanto

Applications in this county go first to an advisory planning and development commission, which hears the case, takes public comment and makes a recommendation. In January 2026 that commission recommended denial.

Six weeks later the board of county commissioners approved it 5-0, with fifteen citizens speaking at the hearing. Not a narrow reversal. A unanimous one.

We flag contested approvals on every page we build, and we usually flag them as a caution. This one reads differently, and it is worth saying why. A board that overrides its advisory commission by one vote is a board that was persuaded with difficulty. A board that does it unanimously, after amending four conditions from the dais, is a board that thought the objections were real and solvable and then went and solved them.

The conditions they added are the tell. The applicant pays the sewer capacity upgrade charges rather than the ratepayers. Landscaping goes between the driveways so the row does not read as one long slab of concrete. The buffer sits outside the fence on all sides rather than inside it, which is the difference between neighbours seeing greenery and neighbours seeing a fence. Those are the notes of a board that listened to a neighbourhood. They are also now enforceable conditions rather than good intentions.

Whoever ends up building the homes at The Hills of Lecanto, the same rule applies: the person at the model's sales desk works for the builder, not for you. They are usually helpful and usually honest, and they still represent the seller's side of the transaction. You are allowed, and smart, to have your own representation, and in almost every case it costs you nothing, because the builder budgets a cooperating commission into the deal whether you bring an agent or not.

The catch is timing. Most builders require your agent to register you on your first visit. Tour or sign in alone and bring an agent later, and the builder can refuse to recognize them, and you lose your representation for that community. Get connected before you tour, have your agent register you, and let them read the contract and the addenda.

On a project this small, with a regional builder rather than a national one, two things change in your favour and one against. In your favour: there is usually more room to talk about finishes, and you can often meet the person actually responsible. Against: there is no second phase, so if you miss it, you miss it.

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