[Watch] Dissolved-HOA orphaned infrastructure — how the corridor improvises

Mascotte's Courtney Park briefing (March 3) made a recognized,
escalating Florida problem local and concrete: an administratively
dissolved homeowners' association left drainage Tracts A and B with
no maintaining party. Resident Ellen Cruz testified she had not
realized the ditch was on her property. Article VII §10 of the
Florida Constitution bars the city from absorbing the tracts or
aiding a private association, so the 117 lot owners now jointly own
and owe maintenance on infrastructure they never knew was theirs.
Three statutory exits were laid on the record — Chapter 14 abatement
(cost prorated across the lots), a Chapter 170 special-assessment
district (Chapter 197 tax-roll collection beginning TY2027), or code
enforcement. The clean statutory fix died in Tallahassee: HB 657,
the Homeowners' Association Dissolution and Accountability Act,
passed the Florida House 108-2 in March 2026 but died in the Senate
when the session ended March 13. The state tried to build an orderly
termination framework and failed three weeks before Mascotte's
briefing. The corridor is full of the platted-subdivision vintage now
aging into administrative dissolution as boards stop filing annual
reports. This watch tracks the improvised remedy and whether the
failure mode propagates.