Fawn Lake Estates

Fawn Lake Estates is an approved 329-home community on about 110 acres in Silver Springs Shores, in unincorporated Marion County with an Ocala mailing address. The county commission approved its final Planned Unit Development master plan unanimously in August 2026, which makes it the most recently approved community we track in Florida. All 329 homes are detached single-family. About 24.5 acres sit in a recorded conservation easement. Nothing is built, no builder has been assigned, and nothing is for sale.

Yes. This one came in two board actions rather than one. The county commission rezoned the land to a Planned Unit Development in January 2026, with a condition that a final master plan come back to the board for approval. That final master plan was approved in August 2026 by a unanimous five to nothing vote, which discharged the condition. The companion land use change in December 2025 was small-scale, which means it required no state review. There is nothing further pending.

Because of where it sits, and it is worth understanding before you buy rather than after. This is 329 homes outside Marion County's Urban Growth Boundary and inside its Springs Protection Overlay. The growth boundary is the line the county draws around where it intends dense development to go; the springs overlay exists because this part of Florida sits on the aquifer that feeds the springs, and it imposes extra scrutiny on wastewater and stormwater. Approving a project of this density outside one line and inside the other is the kind of decision that draws attention, and this one did.

Traffic and lot lines, principally, and the objections produced real changes rather than being noted and ignored. Neighbors objected to through-traffic cutting into the surrounding streets and to a tighter lot line, and the approved plan responded with reduced access points and wider buffers. The most concrete result is the eastern access: it is emergency-only, behind a metal gate operated by siren-activated sensors, so fire and rescue can get through and daily traffic cannot. County staff also flagged in the record that traffic impacts may adversely affect the public interest, and a traffic study was required to determine what roadway improvements are needed along Bahia Trace.

Through the primary access. The eastern connection is explicitly not a second entrance, and we want to be precise about that because it is the sort of detail that gets softened in marketing later. It is a gated emergency route. If you are evaluating this community, evaluate it as a single-access neighborhood of 329 homes and ask at contract whether that has changed.

Nobody yet. No homebuilder appears anywhere in the county record. The developer of record is a land company, and reporting on the August approval notes that it may sell lots to one or more homebuilders and that no specific builder has been identified. On a 329-home community it would not be unusual for more than one builder to end up involved, potentially with different builders on different phases or lot sizes.

The county attached a date to this rather than leaving it open, which is genuinely unusual and worth knowing: the amenities must be open by the fiftieth certificate of occupancy. In plain terms, once the fiftieth home is finished, the amenity has to be finished too. Buyers in new communities routinely find themselves living for years beside a fenced-off future pool, so a condition tying the amenity to a home count rather than to the developer's convenience is a real protection. What the record does not specify is exactly which amenities, so we are not going to list any.

In Silver Springs Shores, southeast of Ocala, north of Bahia Trace and the Lake Diamond and Crystal Lake neighborhoods, and west of the Adams Drainage Canal. It sits near Marshall Swamp and the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. The county record notes the parcel has no assigned address, which is normal at this stage.

No. This is one of the more crowded names we track. There are communities called Fawn Lake Estates in Bryan, Texas, in Brownsburg and Indianapolis, Indiana, in New Braunfels, Texas and in Walled Lake, Michigan, and several of them are built and selling, which is why they own the search results. Closer to home there is a Fawn Lake in Mims, Florida, over in Brevard County, and a large Fawn Lake golf community in Virginia. The one on this page is in Marion County, in Silver Springs Shores, and it has no homes. If what you found has prices and photographs, it is one of the others.

Marion County Public Schools assigns attendance zones by physical address, and the parcel has no assigned address yet, so any school named today would be a guess. What the county record does note is that schools in this area were running somewhere in the range of three-quarters to nearly nine-tenths of capacity at the time of review, and that this was considered addressable within the PUD framework. That is a capacity observation rather than an assignment. Run the specific address through the district's locator once addresses exist.

It affects how the community handles water, which indirectly affects cost and design. The Springs Protection Overlay imposes stricter standards on wastewater treatment and stormwater management than the county applies elsewhere, because this land sits over the aquifer that feeds Florida's springs. What we cannot tell you yet is the specific engineering solution for this community, because that detail is settled at the construction plan stage, which has not been published. It is a fair and specific question to ask when documents are available.

As unincorporated Marion County land, a tax bill would combine county millage, the school board, the water management district and other special districts, with no city millage. Many Florida communities of this size also carry a community development district, which finances infrastructure through bonds repaid by an annual assessment on your tax notice on top of HOA dues. None has been established for Fawn Lake Estates, so there is no figure to quote and anyone offering you one is guessing. Florida has no state income tax, which is often what starts this arithmetic for relocating buyers.

No date has been announced. The final master plan was approved only weeks ago, and platting, construction plans, infrastructure and builder assignment all follow. Treat any date you encounter as a target rather than a commitment.

Join the interest list on this page. We read Marion County's commission records directly, which is how an approval that is a few weeks old ended up documented here before any builder has been named.