Parkland Preserve's Community Development District assessment isn't one number — it ranges from $2,390 to $3,924 a year depending on which phase and lot you buy, a $1,534 spread inside a single, 367-home D.R. Horton community. That's not a builder-to-builder comparison question. It's a phase-to-phase question the builder's own marketing doesn't spell out.
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CDDs fund the roads, drainage, and amenities for a specific phase of construction, and different phases often carry different bond amounts depending on when they were built and what infrastructure they financed. A buyer who tours a model home in one phase and assumes the CDD figure quoted there applies to a resale listing or a different phase entirely can be off by well over a thousand dollars a year — and neither number is wrong, they're just describing different parts of the same community.
The builder's sales team typically quotes the CDD for the phase currently selling — not necessarily the phase your specific lot sits in, and not the figure that applies to a resale home in an earlier phase. Request the CDD assessment for the exact parcel number you're considering, in writing, from the St. Johns County property appraiser's site directly — not a verbal range from a sales office that may be describing a different section of the same development.
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| Community | CDD/yr | HOA/mo | Combined annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkland Preserve | $2,390-$3,924 (varies by phase/lot) | $77 | $3,314-$4,848 |
| Reverie at Silverleaf | $0 — no CDD | $198-$218 | $2,376-$2,616 |
| WaterSong at RiverTown | Present, verify amount | ~$5 (CDD carries cost) | Verify with county |
Reverie at Silverleaf is the outlier worth noting for the opposite reason — it's the only major new-construction 55+ community in this market with no CDD at all, which simplifies its cost picture considerably, though it also sits inside the larger Silverleaf master-plan, meaning your immediate 55+ gates open onto a multi-generational neighborhood, not a Parkland Preserve or WaterSong style of fully enclosed community.
The honest way to shop this market: for any CDD community, get the specific per-parcel assessment for your exact lot in writing before comparing its cost against another phase, another community, or the builder's advertised range.
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