Below are images of the entrance to Bay Hill. Bay Hill near Orlando is one of the older and prestigious PGA event in the USA. The annual tournament is viewed around the world and celebrates the most influential leader in the sport, Arnold Palmer.
In recent years, the Bay Hill community has deteriorated to a point that presents the community in the poorest of lights.
The community property owners are represented by a Board that has allowed the community common spaces to deteriorate while focusing on a small number of property owners. The Board's emphasis is on petty issues like grass blades between pavers and concrete expansion joints, while ignoring major cracks deteriorated concrete driveways. The Board focuses on falsely faded pain and insistence on the overuse of herbicides as a beatification initiative, while disregarding the ecological impact of having the abundance of herbicides rapidly finding their way to natural fresh water lakes in and around Bay Hill.
Florida humidity encourages the growth of mold and mildew on everything. Concrete is no exception. The entrance to the community, and the Club, includes slippery mold and mildew covered sidewalks lifted by roots and violating ADA requirements for safe and accessible paths. Joggers and pedestrians are at risk of significant lifting and sinking of concrete sidewalks while the focus of the Board is on mold and mildew on individual driveways.
The sidewalks off Apopka Vineland entrances are in appreciable poor appearance.
With the increased interest in the golfing world at LIV tournaments and the prospective decline in the PGA viewership and sponsorship, one would imagine the Bay Hill Club and Lodge and the Bay Hill Property Owners Association would be more concerned with the common area appearance of the community. Ensuring the common areas appearance is properly maintained would serve to preserve the stature of the annual Arnold Palmer Invitational and current levels of property values.
Instead the focus is on properties that impact the presentation of the community and Club in the least, while ignoring how the community appears to Club members, PGA representatives, sponsors and media.
Instead of a community approach to mold and mildew, the Board spends thousands of dollars annually on mailing notices requiring property owners to remediate sidewalk and curb appearance at properties with least visibility.
Notices - This section indicates notices received for failure to comply (Right), in comparison with sidewalks and curbs at properties located in the entrance of the community.
Notice of Exterior Maintenance Compliance, Restrictions Article 9
"During our recent inspection and review of your lot, we observed there is visible mold/mildew or residue on your driveway, sidewalk, and/or curbs of your lot. Please pressure clean all surfaces."
Below are images of the street view of the sidewalks and curbs on at the entrance of the Bay Hill community.
The above sidewalk was powerwashed May 2022 and the property owner receives monthly notices of non-compliance including threat of legal action.
The above is the image pasted in the "Final Notice" of July 20, 2022 of the cited curb to be powerwash even though it was powerwashed May 2022.