Babcock Ranch - Creekside Run

Updated September 2026 · Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Brokered by Domain Realty

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Creekside Run at Babcock Ranch is a 291-home neighborhood on 101.79 acres off Cottontail Circle in Babcock Ranch, Charlotte County, Florida 33982. It was platted on 10 March 2023, and it is the one neighborhood in this town that changed builders in the middle of itself: Christopher Alan Homes opened it and built its first 65 homes, and Dream Finders Homes is now building 226 of the 291. In the twelve months to 31 August 2026 it recorded 14 qualified arm’s-length closings at a median of $465,000, which is 32.9 percent above the Charlotte County single family and cluster median of $349,900 across 5,935 closings.

McGreevy and Comisar are a top-reviewed Babcock Ranch realtor team, and Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, with more than $900 million in Sales between us. Five things on this page are published nowhere else. First, the builder handover explains every strange number in the county record, including a median that rose 5.8 percent while the town’s fell 5.8 percent. Second, Creekside Run has a genuine neighborhood amenity, a pool and cabana on its own 2.01-acre tract, which is the first in four neighborhoods we have measured. Third, 256 of its 317 parcels are entirely outside the flood zone and 61 are not, all of them on one arc of a single street, so two neighbours can carry different insurance obligations. Fourth, the company selling the houses is not the company controlling the association: the declarant rights never moved. Fifth, this neighborhood recorded the first resale in this program that made money. Call Jesse McGreevy at (239) 898-6072 or Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873.

In This Guide

Everything below is about Creekside Run itself unless a sentence says otherwise. Babcock Ranch is a town of roughly 8,908 parcels and Creekside Run is 3.6 percent of it, so much of what is written about “Babcock Ranch” online is true of the town and not of this neighborhood. The flood section is the sharpest example, because the answer here is different from the neighborhood four road miles away. Where a fact belongs to the town, this page says so in the sentence. Where a fact could not be sourced, this page publishes it as a gap with the authority and the phone number, because a named gap is more useful than a confident guess.

• Who are the best realtors for Creekside Run at Babcock Ranch

• What Creekside Run actually is

• The builder handover, and why it explains everything else

• How the two builders’ homes differ

• What the handover means for your warranty

• What a Creekside Run home sells for right now

• Why the median rose while the town’s fell

• Why half the sales carry no square footage

• The first resale in this town that made money

• Whether Dream Finders is still selling

• Every floor plan on offer

• Why two published prices disagree

• The advertised rate, and its footnote

• Is Creekside Run in a flood zone

• The 61 parcels that are different from the other 256

• Whether flood insurance is required

• The Letter of Map Amendment route

• The town storm record, and what it proves

• The neighborhood amenity, proven from the county roll

• The town amenities

• Whether Creekside Run is gated

• Whether it is age restricted

• The recorded plat, tract by tract

• The private street and who maintains it

• How these homes are built, measured across all 70

• The special district

• District assessments, off a real tax bill

• The master association assessment

• The neighborhood association fee

• The irrigation amendment nobody mentions

• What it costs to own a home here each year

• What it costs to close, and who receives each fee

• Whether you can rent out a Creekside Run home

• Why short-term rental is foreclosed

• The pet rules

• Boats, carts, trailers and parking

• Getting a pool, a fence or landscaping approved

• The two reviewers, and the opposite rules on silence

• Solar panels

• Everything else the declaration restricts

• Who controls the homeowners association

• Why the builder selling the homes is not the declarant

• When the association turns over

• Whether there are funded reserves

• How the association enforces the rules

• How far Creekside Run is from everything

• The schools that serve Creekside Run

• The charter school lottery

• Utilities and who provides them

• The bulk gigabit internet

• Alligators, panthers and wild hogs

• Why State Road 31 matters

• What is coming to Babcock Ranch next

• Buying new against buying a resale

• How Creekside Run compares to other Babcock Ranch neighborhoods

• How to verify everything on this page yourself

• What to check before buying here

• If you are thinking of selling

• What this page could not verify, and who to call

• Downloadable documents and primary sources

• Sources

• Frequently asked questions

• Other Babcock Ranch neighborhoods

• Talk to the Creekside Run experts

Key Takeaways

Data updated: September 2026, from the Charlotte County recorded deed file dated 6 September 2026, the parcel roll dated 7 September 2026, the recorded plat and declaration read from Charlotte County Clerk document images, all 317 county record cards read individually, and road distances routed on 9 September 2026.

• Two builders. Christopher Alan Homes opened Creekside Run and built its first 65 homes through 2024. Dream Finders Homes is building 226 of the 291, with models opened in February 2026.

• The median rose 5.8 percent, to $465,000, while the town’s fell 5.8 percent. It rose because the median home sold grew 30 percent, from 1,716 to 2,239 square feet. Per square foot the rise is 8.4 percent, on seven measurable sales.

• 256 of 317 parcels are entirely Zone X. Sixty-one touch Zone AE, all on one arc of Cottontail Circle, fifteen of them built. By area, 99.1 percent of the site is Zone X.

• The amenity is real and it is on the county roll: a 2.01-acre tract with a 1,446 square foot pool and a 342 square foot cabana, both built 2024. The first genuine neighborhood amenity in four Babcock Ranch neighborhoods we have measured.

• The declarant rights never transferred. Christopher Alan’s entity is still the declarant; the instrument naming Dream Finders is a Designation of Builder that expressly assumes no declarant obligations.

• The first winning resale in this program. One resale in the neighborhood’s history: bought at $637,000, sold 25.6 months later for a $13,000 gain.

• The street is private, a 13.78-acre tract owned by the association, which is what makes the towing right real.

• Leasing is six months with association approval of every lease, which is stricter than the town’s two-month floor, because this neighborhood’s declaration expressly carves out stricter terms.

• A recorded amendment moved irrigation onto owners, gave every lot its own water meter and bill, and imposed a watering timetable keyed to the last digit of the house number.

• Fines are $100 a day with no aggregate ceiling, where Florida’s default caps the aggregate at $1,000.

Who Are the Best Realtors for Creekside Run at Babcock Ranch?

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of McGreevy and Comisar at Domain Realty, and the case for that is on this page rather than in the claim. We read the 101-page recorded declaration and its amendment, pulled every deed one at a time, read all 317 county record cards individually to count the flood zones parcel by parcel, found the recorded instrument that shows the declarant rights never moved, and published the sixteen things we could not verify with the phone number to settle each one. We are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008.

As the leaders of Domain Realty Group our team has closed over $2.5 billion in real estate across Southwest Florida, and in the last 12 months we tracked 14 Creekside Run closings from the Charlotte County recorded deed file, hand-checking every row against the parcel roll. That is the work behind every number here. You can read more about McGreevy and Comisar, and McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team; learn more about our team at DomainRealtyGroup.com.

Jesse McGreevy: (239) 898-6072 · [email protected]
Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873
Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

Jesse McGreevy (Sales Associate) and Marc Comisar (Broker Associate) are licensed Florida REALTORS® with Domain Realty; Florida real estate licensure is regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC).

What Is Creekside Run at Babcock Ranch?

Creekside Run is a 291-home single-family neighborhood on 101.79 acres in Babcock Ranch, Charlotte County, Florida 33982, platted on 10 March 2023 at Plat Book 26, Pages 12A to 12P. It is not age restricted. It has its own pool and cabana on a dedicated common tract, a private street owned by the homeowners association, and 70 completed homes on the county roll with 214 homesites still to come.

Four streets carry Creekside Run addresses: Cottontail Circle with 216 parcels, River Otter Road with 42, Great Heron Lane with 27 and Creekside Run Lane with 6. The plat was dedicated by Creekside Run LB LLC, a Delaware land bank, which is an ordinary structure in American homebuilding and is the reason the company on the plat is not a name buyers recognise.

In the district’s own records the neighborhood is “Village 2 Parcel 5,” an identification proven five separate ways including the district’s own consumer fee sheet page headed “Creekside Run Parcel 5” and a unit split of 54 plus 168 plus 69 that totals exactly 291. That matters because every district assessment figure on this page depends on it.

What makes Creekside Run different from every other neighborhood in this series is not the houses. It is that two different builders built them, and that fact runs through the market data, the product, the warranty and the governance. The next three sections are about that, because nothing else here makes sense without it.

The Short Version of the Handover

One builder started this neighborhood and another is finishing it. That single fact explains the building slowdown, the fall in closings, the rising median and the difference between a resale here and a new build here. The next three sections work through each in turn.

Why Did Creekside Run Change Builders?

Christopher Alan Homes opened Creekside Run and built its first 65 homes. Dream Finders Homes took over and is building 226 of the neighborhood’s 291. Christopher Alan announced the neighborhood on 30 January 2023 and launched sales on 18 September 2023. Dream Finders’ takedown of 226 parcels for $22.6 million recorded on 16 April 2025, its first assets date from September 2025, and its models opened on 7 February 2026.

That single fact explains every anomaly in the county record, and each one looked alarming before it was explained:

Two pieces of corroborating evidence a buyer can check. Christopher Alan’s own Babcock Ranch page now redirects, and the developer’s builder filter no longer lists it among the town’s builders. And local reporting from July 2025 opens with the sentence “Dream Finders Homes is taking over the reins,” quoting the incoming builder’s Southwest Florida division vice president and confirming the 226 of 291 figure.

None of this is unusual or improper. Builders sell land positions to other builders routinely, particularly where a land bank holds the lots and takedowns are optioned in batches. What is unusual is how visible it is here, and how much of the public data it explains. A buyer who reads Creekside Run’s numbers without knowing about the handover will draw the wrong conclusion from every one of them.

How Do the Two Builders’ Homes Differ?

Substantially, and the difference is measurable rather than impressionistic. The 70 homes standing today are almost entirely Christopher Alan’s, with a median of 1,716 square feet and 88.6 percent of them single storey. Dream Finders’ twelve plans have a median of 2,603 square feet, a 51.7 percent step up, across three collections on 42, 52 and 62 foot homesites.

The 3,902 square foot outlier among the built homes is 17213 River Otter Road, which is the model and sales centre rather than a typical house.

Three practical consequences for a buyer. A resale here is a different product from a new build here, generally smaller and single storey, and it should be priced against other resales rather than against the builder’s sheet. The neighborhood’s eventual character will be set by the incoming builder, not by what is standing today, because 226 of 291 homes are still to be built. And the streetscape will change: a neighborhood that is currently nearly nine-tenths single storey will finish with a substantial share of two-storey homes on larger lots.

None of that is a criticism of either builder. It is the practical shape of buying into a neighborhood at its handover, and it is knowable in advance from the recorded plat and the county roll.

What Does the Handover Mean for My Warranty?

It depends entirely on which builder built your house, and this is the question a Creekside Run buyer should get answered in writing before closing rather than after a defect appears. A warranty is a contract with the company that built the home. Dream Finders’ warranty covers Dream Finders’ homes. It does not cover the 65 or so homes Christopher Alan built, and Dream Finders assumed no obligation for them.

That is not a gap this page can close, because the contractual warranty terms are in a document held by the homeowner rather than in any public record. What can be stated is the statutory floor. Florida Statute 553.837 provides a one-year warranty on new residential construction, and it expressly survives a transfer of the property within that year. Beyond that first year, structural coverage depends on whatever express limited warranty the original builder issued and what it says about assignment on resale.

What to do, concretely, on any Creekside Run home:

1. Establish which builder built it. The year built on the county record card is the quickest indicator: 2023 and 2024 homes are Christopher Alan’s, 2026 completions are Dream Finders’.

2. Ask the seller for the original warranty document, in full, not a summary. Read what it says about transfer to a subsequent owner.

3. Ask whether any warranty claims have been made, and for the resolution documents.

4. If the home is a Christopher Alan build, confirm who honours the remaining coverage now. Ask in writing and keep the answer.

5. Do not assume the builder on site is your builder. The sales centre on River Otter Road sells Dream Finders homes; it has no obligation on a neighbour’s Christopher Alan home.

The same reasoning applies to construction defect questions generally. If a systemic issue emerged in the 2024 homes, the counterparty would be Christopher Alan’s entity, which is still an active Florida company, rather than the builder currently selling on the street.

What Does a Creekside Run Home Sell For Right Now?

In the twelve months to 31 August 2026, Creekside Run recorded 14 qualified arm’s-length improved closings at a median of $465,000, ranging from $302,000 to $809,600. That is 32.9 percent above the Charlotte County single family and cluster benchmark of $349,900 across 5,935 closings. Volume fell 53.3 percent from the prior year’s 30 closings, and the median rose 5.8 percent from $439,400.

Data updated: September 2026, from the Charlotte County recorded deed file dated 6 September 2026 and the parcel roll dated 7 September 2026.

Two things must be said in the same breath as those numbers or they will be read wrongly.

Fourteen sales is a thin sample, and the fall in volume is the handover rather than the market. One builder finished selling and the other had not opened models. A neighborhood that produced 30 closings when a builder was actively selling and 14 while nobody was is not telling you about demand.

And the denominator is stated so it can be checked. Every figure counts qualified arm’s-length improved deeds recorded with Charlotte County under transfer codes 01 and 02, deduplicated on account, date and price, restricted to residential parcels in tax district 206. The county’s own legend describes 01 as transfers “qualified as arms length as a result of examination” and 02 as “qualified as arms length because of documented evidence.” This page does not use a multiple listing service new-construction flag, because 77 of the 78 closings here were builder sales that produced no ordinary listing.

Why Did the Median Rise When the Town’s Fell?

Because the homes that sold got bigger, not because a given home got more expensive. The median living area sold went from 1,716 to 2,239 square feet, a rise of 30 percent, while the median price rose 5.8 percent. When the mix moves that far, the median is describing what sold rather than what a home is worth, and this page decomposes it rather than reporting the headline.

Data updated: September 2026.

So the honest reading is three sentences. The median rose because bigger homes sold. On a per square foot basis, which is the closer measure of what a given home is worth, the rise is 8.4 percent rather than 5.8. And the per square foot figure rests on seven of the fourteen sales, because the other seven closed on parcels the county roll still carries as vacant land, so no living area exists for them.

Why did bigger homes sell? The same reason as everything else on this page. The incoming builder’s product line is 51.7 percent larger at the median than what is standing, and its three collections sit on 42, 52 and 62 foot homesites with base prices running to $642,990. As Dream Finders’ homes close through 2026 and 2027, this neighborhood’s median will keep moving for reasons that have nothing to do with the market.

What a buyer should take from this. Do not price a 1,700 square foot Christopher Alan resale against a median built partly from 2,600 square foot new builds. Ask for comparable sales matched on size and on builder, and treat any single Creekside Run median published anywhere over the next two years as a mix figure until it is decomposed.

Why Do Half the Sales Carry No Square Footage?

Because Florida assesses property on 1 January and seven of the fourteen sales in the last twelve months closed on parcels the county roll still carries as vacant land. The houses exist. The roll has not caught up to them, and living area on a deed row comes from the roll.

That is why every price per square foot on this page carries the phrase “on 7 of 14 sales.” It is a real measure of a real half of the market, and it is not a measure of the whole.

It also means the build-out figure on this page comes from deeds rather than from the roll. The roll shows 70 completed homes; the deed record shows 77 homesites conveyed. The seven-home difference is the same lag seen from the other side, and the deed count is the better one because a recorded conveyance is dated to the day.

Some pages will publish a Creekside Run price per square foot anyway, by dividing sale prices by builder brochure square footages. That produces a number describing the floor plan rather than the transaction, because it assumes every buyer took the base plan with no options and no lot premium. This page does not do that, and a buyer should ask any source that quotes one how many transactions it rests on.

The lag clears on its own. The 2027 roll, assessed on 1 January 2027, will carry these homes with their living areas, and the whole sample becomes measurable then.

Has Anyone Resold a Home in Creekside Run?

One person has, and they made money, which makes it the first winning resale this program has recorded at Babcock Ranch. The home was bought on 27 June 2024 for $637,000 and sold 25.6 months later for a gain of $13,000. One sale is one sale, and this page labels it as such rather than as a trend. But it is a genuine first and it is consistent with something this program has measured repeatedly.

Read the hold column, because it is the pattern. The one Creekside Run seller held longer than the median seller in either neighborhood where most sellers lost money. The mechanism this program has documented repeatedly is that a private seller competing against a live builder price sheet on the same street loses, because the builder can discount, absorb closing costs, offer a rate programme through its own lender and hand over a full warranty. The longer the hold, the less of the outcome that mechanism explains.

The caution for Creekside Run specifically is that the builder competition here is about to intensify rather than end. Dream Finders has 214 homesites still to sell and opened its models in February 2026. A seller here between now and the end of the build-out is competing with a builder that is just getting started, which is the hardest version of this problem, and the opposite of the position at Waterview Landing where the builder has two homes left.

The practical conclusion. One winning resale does not make Creekside Run a good flip and this page does not suggest it. What it suggests is what the wider data already showed: at Babcock Ranch, holding period is the variable that decides the outcome, and a hold measured in years rather than months is what the one winner had.

Is Dream Finders Still Selling in Creekside Run?

Yes, and it is at the beginning rather than the end. Dream Finders is building 226 of the neighborhood’s 291 homes, its models opened on 7 February 2026, and 214 homesites remain against the county roll. Of the 291 residential units, 77 have been conveyed, which is 26.5 percent. It offers twelve floor plans across three collections, on 42, 52 and 62 foot homesites.

Two consequences pull in opposite directions for a buyer, and both are real.

In your favour: a builder with 214 homesites to sell and models just opened is at its most motivated, with a full plan range, three lot widths and genuine choice. There is real breadth here that a nearly finished neighborhood cannot offer.

Against you: that builder will be your competition for as long as you own the house, probably for years, and it can do things a private seller cannot. That is the arithmetic in the resale section above, and at Creekside Run it is at the start of its run rather than the end.

Which Floor Plans Does Dream Finders Offer at Creekside Run?

Twelve, across three collections named for their homesite widths, from 1,657 to 3,550 square feet with base prices from $308,990 to $642,990. The 42 and 52 foot collections carry two-car garages and the 62 foot collection carries three. All prices below are the builder’s own published base prices read on 9 September 2026, which are plan prices rather than the price of any actual house.

Three observations that a plan list on its own will not give you.

Price does not track size cleanly across collections, and that is by design. The Lucca is 1,971 square feet at $439,990 while the Modena is 2,519 at $390,990. The difference is the homesite: a 52 foot lot with a single-storey plan on it costs more per square foot than a two-storey plan on the same width. Buyers who compare on price per square foot across collections will misread the whole range.

The median plan is 2,603 square feet, which is 51.7 percent larger than the 1,716 square foot median of what is already standing. This is the number behind the rising median discussed above.

Storey counts on two plans were established from the builder’s own image descriptions rather than a structured field, because that field returned inconsistent values on repeat reads. Confirm the storey count and the exact bath count on any plan in writing before you contract.

Why Do Two Published Prices for the Same House Disagree?

Because the builder and the developer publish separately, and at Creekside Run the developer’s figures are wrong in both directions. The developer’s entry price runs about $41,000 above the builder’s own, which is a larger gap than at any other neighborhood in this series, but plan by plan the developer is high on five plans, low on three, and exact on four.

That inconsistency is worse for a buyer than a uniform error would be. At Waterview Landing and Sabal Glen the developer’s prices ran uniformly high, so a reader could at least apply a mental discount. Here there is no correction to apply, because the errors do not run one way.

The rule that follows is the same one this series applies everywhere: take price from the builder, dated to the day you read it, and treat the developer’s pages as marketing summaries. The builder’s own collection and plan pages are the authority, and they change.

The practical consequence: if you are budgeting from a developer page you may be budgeting $41,000 too high on the entry plan, which could move you out of a home you could afford, or too low on another, which is worse. If a salesperson quotes a figure that matches the developer rather than the builder, ask which source it came from.

What Is Dream Finders Offering, and What Does the Footnote Say?

Two different rates, and they contradict each other. The banner advertises 3.49 percent with a 6.281 percent annual percentage rate; the footnoted offer states 4.99 percent with a 5.745 percent annual percentage rate. Both were published at the same time. A buyer should treat the footnoted figure as the one attached to actual terms and should ask the lender in writing which applies to a specific home.

Two things this page will not do. It will not resolve the two advertised rates, because only the lender can, and it will not infer the index, margin or caps on any adjustable product from an annual percentage rate. Ask Jet HomeLoans in writing for the note type, the note rate, whether the buydown is permanent or temporary, and the full cost of the buydown as a concession, because a rate concession is money that could otherwise have come off the price.

The write-and-close deadline deserves emphasis on a neighborhood where new construction is the main product. A home that is not standing cannot close by 30 September 2026, so on any to-be-built plan the incentive as advertised is effectively limited to inventory that already exists. Ask which specific homes qualify.

Is Creekside Run in a Flood Zone?

Mostly no, and partly yes, and the split is the useful answer. 256 of Creekside Run’s 317 parcels are entirely in Zone X, the minimal-hazard zone outside the Special Flood Hazard Area. Sixty-one parcels touch Zone AE, and all 61 are on one arc of Cottontail Circle. By area, 99.1 percent of the 101.79-acre site is Zone X. The governing map is FIRM panel 12015C0500G effective 15 December 2022, as revised by Letter of Map Revision 24-04-2314P effective 4 November 2025.

Data updated: September 2026, measured by reading all 317 Charlotte County record cards individually and parsing the flood block off each one, then cross-checking against the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s live National Flood Hazard Layer. The two sources name exactly the same 61 parcels, with zero difference.

One caution that matters more here than anywhere else in this series. Do not carry a flood answer between Babcock Ranch neighborhoods. Sabal Glen, four road miles away, is 227 of 230 parcels in Zone AE under a completely different Letter of Map Revision, and that revision does not reach Creekside Run while Creekside Run’s does not reach Sabal Glen. Two neighborhoods in the same town, on opposite sides of the Special Flood Hazard Area line, under different maps.

Why the Split Matters More Than the Average

A neighborhood-level flood answer is useless to a buyer who is buying one house. At Creekside Run the neighborhood answer and the parcel answer differ for 61 of 317 parcels, and the difference is a recurring insurance cost. This section is about how to get the answer for your address rather than for the subdivision.

Which 61 Parcels Are Different, and Why Does It Matter?

Because two houses on the same street, in the same neighborhood, can be in different flood zones with different insurance obligations, and that is exactly the situation at Creekside Run. The 61 parcels that touch Zone AE are not scattered; they sit on one arc of Cottontail Circle, and fifteen of them already have houses on them. The neighbouring parcel may be entirely Zone X and carry no requirement at all.

Every one of the 61 is coded AE and X rather than AE alone, meaning the parcel straddles the boundary. That distinction is important and it cuts in the buyer’s favour more often than not: what determines the insurance requirement is where the structure sits, not where the lot line runs. A house built on the Zone X portion of a straddling parcel can fall outside the Special Flood Hazard Area even though the parcel touches it.

What this means in practice, and it is the most important paragraph on this page for anyone shopping Cottontail Circle:

1. Never assume the neighborhood’s answer applies to the house. Ask for the flood determination on the specific parcel, in writing, before you remove your financing contingency.

2. Pull the county record card yourself. It prints the flood block: firm panel, floodway, whether the parcel is in the Special Flood Hazard Area, the zone, the base flood elevation and the Letter of Map Revision. It is free and it takes two minutes.

3. If the parcel touches Zone AE, ask for the elevation certificate and find out where the structure actually sits relative to the boundary and the base flood elevation.

4. Ask whether a Letter of Map Amendment has been issued, because at Creekside Run at least one has. See the next section.

This is also a negotiating fact rather than only a risk fact. A buyer who establishes that a straddling parcel’s structure is outside the hazard area has removed a recurring cost from the deal, and a buyer who establishes the opposite has found a cost the asking price probably does not reflect.

Do I Have to Buy Flood Insurance at Creekside Run?

On the 256 parcels that are entirely Zone X, a federally backed lender does not require it. On a parcel where the structure sits inside the Special Flood Hazard Area, it does: under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, a regulated lender may not make, increase, extend or renew a loan secured by a building in a Special Flood Hazard Area in a participating community unless flood insurance is in place for the term of the loan. The question is decided building by building, not neighborhood by neighborhood.

A cash buyer is never compelled to carry it. Whether a cash buyer should is a separate question that depends on the structure’s elevation and the household’s tolerance for an uninsured loss, and it is not one this page answers for anyone.

This page publishes no premium, and the reason is specific. Since the Federal Emergency Management Agency moved to Risk Rating 2.0, a premium is priced on structure-specific variables: first-floor height, foundation type, replacement cost and distance to water. Publishing a figure without those inputs would mean inventing them. Zone X premiums are generally modest and Zone AE premiums vary enormously with elevation, which is precisely why the certificate matters more than any published average.

Two further points worth knowing. A large share of United States flood claims come from outside high-risk zones, so Zone X is a statement about a lender’s requirement rather than a guarantee. And the hurricane evacuation zone is a different thing from the FEMA flood zone, assigned by the county for storm surge rather than by FEMA for rainfall and riverine flooding; the two are routinely confused and Creekside Run’s evacuation zone is not established on this page.

Call the Federal Emergency Management Agency Mapping and Insurance eXchange on 1-877-336-2627 with a parcel number for the determination in writing, and Charlotte County Building Construction Services on (941) 743-1201 for the elevation certificate.

What Is a Letter of Map Amendment, and Why Does It Matter Here?

It is the formal route by which the Federal Emergency Management Agency removes a specific structure or parcel from the Special Flood Hazard Area when a survey shows the ground is higher than the mapped floodplain. It matters at Creekside Run because at least three have already been issued on named lots here, one of which removed a structure at 17216 Cottontail Circle.

Two practical consequences follow, and both are money.

If you are buying on the Zone AE arc, ask whether a Letter of Map Amendment already exists for that lot. If one does, it can remove the lender’s mandatory purchase requirement entirely, which is worth a recurring premium every year of ownership. That is not a small thing and the seller may not know to mention it.

If none exists and the ground looks high, one may be obtainable. The application is made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, generally supported by an elevation certificate prepared by a Florida licensed surveyor. It has a cost and it is not guaranteed. Charlotte County Building Construction Services on (941) 743-1201 is the local starting point, and the Mapping and Insurance eXchange on 1-877-336-2627 handles the federal side.

What a Letter of Map Amendment does not do is change the physical risk. It changes the mapping, and with it the lender’s requirement and the rating. A household that obtains one and then drops coverage entirely has removed the obligation and kept the water.

What Is Babcock Ranch’s Actual Hurricane Record?

Strong, well documented, and about a different hazard from the one this neighborhood is partly mapped for. The town has taken Hurricane Ian in September 2022, then Helene and Milton in 2024, and its performance through Ian drew national coverage: it kept its power, its internet and its structures while coastal communities did not.

The engineering behind that is real. Power distribution is buried rather than overhead. Stormwater is managed through a network of interconnected lakes. Streets were designed as secondary conveyance. The utility-scale solar array kept generating. Homes are built to the post-Ian Florida Building Code.

Two limits on what that record proves for Creekside Run.

First, Creekside Run barely existed for any of it. It was platted in March 2023, six months after Ian, and only three homes were completed that year. Its 70 standing homes are all post-Ian construction, which is genuinely good news for their build standard, and it means the neighborhood contributed nothing to the town’s storm record and learned nothing from it that is visible in its own data.

Second, keeping the power on is not the same as being outside a flood zone. The famous story is about wind, surge and grid resilience, on which Babcock Ranch performs unusually well at 30 miles inland and about 30 feet up. The Zone AE mapping on part of this neighborhood is about the one percent annual chance flood from rainfall and the canal system. A buyer should hold both facts at once.

What can be said specifically for Creekside Run: every home here was built after Ian, to the current code, and 95.7 percent of them carry high impact glass, measured across all 70. That is a real, measured statement about these houses rather than a story about the town.

Does Creekside Run Have Its Own Pool?

Yes, and unlike the last three Babcock Ranch neighborhoods this program has measured, the amenity is real and it is provable from the county roll rather than from marketing. Tract B-128, account 422633102307, at 44225 Creekside Run Lane, is 2.01 acres and is the only parcel of the neighborhood’s 317 coded as improved common area. On it the county records a 1,446 square foot reinforced concrete pool and a 342 square foot unconditioned building with 13 plumbing fixtures, which is the cabana with its restrooms.

Data updated: September 2026, from the Charlotte County parcel roll dated 7 September 2026 and two recorded Notices of Commencement.

Local reporting describes it in the present tense: “Residents enjoy completed amenities, including a tot lot ... a community pool with a sun shelf and a covered cabana.” The pool and the cabana are confirmed by the county record independently of that.

One honest qualification about the tot lot. The Charlotte County Property Appraiser has no assessment code for a playground, so its absence from the roll proves nothing either way. The developer’s own material lists “pool” and “playground” but not a cabana; the county record proves the cabana and cannot speak to the playground. So this page publishes the pool and cabana as verified from the county record, and the tot lot as reported, and recommends looking at it before you buy on the strength of it.

What is not established from any record: amenity hours, guest rules, key or fob access, and whether the tract has yet been conveyed from the land bank to the association. Ask the manager, RealManage, on 1-866-473-2573. And note the funding question that goes with a 2024-built pool: a pool has a maintenance and eventual replacement cost, and the reserves section below is where that is discussed.

What Town Amenities Do Creekside Run Residents Use?

All of them, and unusually close by. Residency at Babcock Ranch carries access to Founder’s Square with its Publix, restaurants and weekly farmers market, the Cypress Lodge and Lake Timber Lodge pools, Jack Peeples Park with twelve pickleball courts, basketball and bocce, plus dog parks, playgrounds, a community garden, coworking space and a large trail network.

From Creekside Run’s computed centroid, the Publix at Founder’s Square is 3.51 road miles and about 10 minutes, and the Babcock Neighborhood School is 2.61 miles and 8 minutes. That makes Creekside Run one of the better-placed neighborhoods in this series for reaching the town core: closer than Sabal Glen at 7.49 miles, and comparable to Waterview Landing at 3.3.

The important distinction, and it is the opposite of the one this series usually has to make: Creekside Run has both. It has a genuine neighborhood pool and cabana on its own tract, and it has town amenity access, and it is close enough to use the town ones casually. Three of the four preceding neighborhoods in this program had only the second.

On getting around, two rules changed recently. Charlotte County has banned Class 3 electric bicycles at Babcock Ranch, because they assist to 28 miles per hour while town roads are capped at 25, and county rules require anyone under 16 to wear a helmet. Florida law now requires a golf cart operator to hold a valid driver’s licence or learner’s permit, or be at least 18, and district Resolution 2023-24 confines carts to designated roads and prohibits them on sidewalks, bike lanes and unpaved trails.

Is Creekside Run Gated?

Local reporting describes Creekside Run as gated, and the neighborhood’s street is a private roadway owned by the homeowners association, which is the structural precondition for a gate and for the towing rights discussed below. This page reports the gated status as corroborated from local reporting rather than verified from the plat, and recommends confirming it with your own eyes before it forms part of a decision.

The distinction matters because this series has repeatedly found marketing describing an entry feature in language that reads as gated where no gate exists. What can be stated from the record is stronger and more useful anyway: Tract B-113, 13.78 acres, carrying Cottontail Circle, River Otter Road, Great Heron Lane and Creekside Run Lane, is dedicated on the recorded plat as a private roadway to the association. Charlotte County does not maintain it and the special district does not maintain it.

If a gate matters to your decision, confirm it on site or with the master association on (941) 676-7191, and ask specifically whether it is staffed, card-operated or unattended, because the three are very different propositions for security and for guest access.

Is Creekside Run Age Restricted?

No. Creekside Run is an all-ages neighborhood with no 55 and over restriction, and its product mix reflects that: the incoming builder’s range runs to a 5-bedroom, 3,550 square foot two-storey plan, which is family product rather than active-adult product. The neighborhood is also 74.3 percent homesteaded among its occupied homes, which indicates owner-occupiers rather than seasonal or investor ownership.

Two neighborhoods elsewhere at Babcock Ranch, Regency and Alta Key, are age restricted at 55 and over and both are gated. Creekside Run is neither, and a buyer touring several Babcock Ranch neighborhoods in a day should not carry an impression from one to another.

The practical consequences are the ordinary ones: households with children are entirely at home here, the charter school section below is directly relevant, and the eventual resale pool is the general market rather than the narrower over-55 market, which is larger by construction.

What Does the Recorded Plat Show?

The plat is Plat Book 26, Pages 12A to 12P, sixteen sheets, recorded 10 March 2023, dedicated by Creekside Run LB LLC, a Delaware land bank. It lays out 291 residential units and 26 tracts across 101.79 acres, of which the two that matter most to a buyer are the street and the amenity.

One feature of this plat is genuinely unusual within Babcock Ranch and worth a buyer’s attention. Even the surface-water management right over the street runs to the homeowners association rather than to the special district. At Sabal Glen, by contrast, the district takes perpetual ingress and egress over the private street for surface water management. Here the association holds more and the district holds less, which means more of the infrastructure responsibility sits with the 291 homes.

That is not a defect. It is a governance fact with a cost attached, and it is the reason the reserves question below matters more at Creekside Run than at a neighborhood where the district carries the drainage burden.

Who Maintains the Streets in Creekside Run?

The homeowners association does, and it is a 13.78-acre obligation. Tract B-113, carrying Cottontail Circle, River Otter Road, Great Heron Lane and Creekside Run Lane, is dedicated on the recorded plat as a private roadway to the Creekside Run association. Every resurfacing, pothole, sidewalk repair and street sign inside the neighborhood is an association expense paid by 291 homes, and Charlotte County will not do any of it.

Set that beside three other findings on this page and a buyer has the question worth asking before closing. The association owns a 13.78-acre private street and a 2.01-acre amenity tract with a 2024-built pool. Reserves are recorded as unfunded. And the association’s own assessment figure is not published in any public record.

None of that is a scandal in a neighborhood three years old with a developer still in control. It does mean that the two largest long-term physical liabilities at Creekside Run, a private road network and a swimming pool, are both the association’s, and both have replacement horizons measured in decades that somebody will eventually fund.

Ask three things in writing before closing: the current annual assessment and what it covers, whether any reserve study has been performed on the roadway or the pool, and whether the street and amenity tracts have yet been conveyed from the land bank to the association. Manager: RealManage, 1-866-473-2573. Master association: (941) 676-7191.

Measured, Not Advertised

Every figure in this section was read from the Charlotte County Property Appraiser's own record cards, one card per home, across all 70 completed homes. None of it comes from a builder brochure, and it can all be reproduced free of charge by anyone with a parcel number.

How Are Creekside Run Homes Built?

Uniformly, and to a good standard, measured across every one of the 70 completed homes from the county’s own record cards rather than from a builder brochure. 100 percent are masonry stucco on block with composition shingle roofing on a slab, 100 percent are all-electric for heating and cooling, 100 percent carry central water and sewer, and 95.7 percent carry high impact glass. Nearly nine in ten are single storey.

Data updated: September 2026. Denominator: all 70 built homes on the parcel roll dated 7 September 2026.

Three readings a buyer can use.

The impact glass figure is the one that matters at insurance-quote time. At 95.7 percent it is effectively the neighborhood standard, and opening protection is a major input to a Florida wind mitigation credit. It is still worth ordering the inspection on the specific home, because that is what the insurer prices.

Every home here is all-electric for heating and cooling, and the only gas component in the entire neighborhood is a pool heater. Eleven of the fifteen pools are gas heated, so gas is physically connected at eleven addresses and heats nothing else. That matches the pattern this program has now measured at five consecutive Babcock Ranch neighborhoods.

And the neighborhood is nearly nine-tenths single storey today, which will change. Six of the incoming builder’s twelve plans are two storey, so a buyer choosing Creekside Run for a low, uniform streetscape should understand that 226 of the 291 homes are still to be built and the mix will shift.

What Is the Babcock Ranch Special District?

The Babcock Ranch Community Independent Special District is an independent special district established under Florida law that owns and operates the town’s public infrastructure: the stormwater and lake system, the roads outside private neighborhood streets, right-of-way landscaping and solid waste. It funds that work through assessments appearing on the Charlotte County tax bill as non-ad-valorem lines, separately from property taxes and separately from any association fee.

For a buyer the practical point is that a Babcock Ranch home carries three separate recurring layers, and a comparison against a home outside the town that counts only one will be badly wrong:

1. Ad valorem property taxes at the Charlotte County millage, assessed on value.

2. District assessments on the same bill, split between debt service repaying the bonds that built the infrastructure and operations and maintenance that runs it, plus a solid waste line.

3. Association assessments, billed directly: the master association for the town and the Creekside Run association for the neighborhood.

In the district’s records Creekside Run is “Village 2 Parcel 5,” and that identification is proven five ways, including the district’s own consumer fee sheet page headed “Creekside Run Parcel 5” and a unit split of 54 plus 168 plus 69 equalling exactly 291. Every district figure below depends on it. Contact the district through its manager, Wrathell Hunt and Associates, on (561) 571-0010, or the town office on (941) 235-2010.

What Are the District Assessments at Creekside Run?

Unlike two of the newer neighborhoods in this series, Creekside Run has real tax bills, so these figures are read off an actual bill rather than off a schedule. On a single-family 42-foot homesite with a completed home, the district and county non-ad-valorem lines total $2,671.84.

Data updated: September 2026, from real Charlotte County tax bills on Creekside Run parcels.

Two findings worth stating because this program tests them at every neighborhood.

The $30.90 annual step holds here, on all three bands, and the successor step is $32.45. That is the district’s uniform operations increase, and it is a useful planning figure: a Creekside Run owner should expect the operations component to rise by roughly that amount per year rather than by a percentage.

The solid waste and fire figures reconcile with the rest of the town. $340.58 solid waste on an improved parcel and $0.00 on vacant, $278.20 fire on improved and $118.50 on vacant, all confirmed on real Creekside Run bills. The vacant fire rate is the per-acre figure this program has now confirmed at three separate neighborhoods.

Note that debt service and operations are the same on a vacant lot as on a house. A buyer purchasing a homesite to build on carries $2,053.06 of district assessment from the first year, before there is anything standing on it.

What Is the Babcock Ranch Master Association Fee?

The master association assessment is $408 per quarter, which is $1,632 a year, billed directly by the Babcock Ranch Residential Association rather than on the tax bill. It comprises $270 master, $135 bulk gigabit internet and $3 environmental, and it is the same figure paid across the town.

What it buys is the town: amenity access, the master association’s governance and its Founders Review Committee, town-wide rules, and one gigabit symmetrical fibre service per home which nobody pays for separately and nobody can opt out of.

What it does not buy is anything inside Creekside Run. The private street, the pool and cabana, the common tracts and the neighborhood landscaping are the Creekside Run association’s responsibility, funded by a separate assessment covered next.

What Is the Creekside Run Association Fee?

Nobody outside the association can tell you, and this page will not guess. The Creekside Run Homeowners Association assessment is not stated in any public record this build could reach. No claim of lien has ever been recorded against a Creekside Run lot, and a claim of lien is the usual public source of the figure, because a Florida lien states the assessment it secures. The declaration authorises assessments in detail and states no amount.

This matters more at Creekside Run than at most neighborhoods, because the association here carries an unusually heavy set of physical obligations for a 291-home community: a 13.78-acre private street network including its surface water management, and a 2.01-acre amenity tract with a pool, cabana, deck and parking. Whatever the assessment is, it is funding more than landscaping.

The manager is RealManage, and the number is 1-866-473-2573. Ask for the current budget and the assessment with its period stated, because a figure without a frequency is not a fee. Then get the estoppel certificate, which is binding on the association for its stated period and will name the assessment, the period and anything owing at your closing date.

There is a route that will work later, just not yet. The first delinquency at Creekside Run will produce a recorded claim of lien stating the dues. That is exactly how the Northridge assessment was finally established, from three recorded liens which revealed the fee there is banded by lot width rather than being one number. This page will be re-checked when one appears.

The Irrigation Amendment Nobody Mentions

A recorded amendment changed how water works at Creekside Run, and it is the kind of thing that never appears in marketing but arrives every month on a bill. The First Amendment to the declaration, instrument 3369168, recorded 13 February 2024, six pages, moved irrigation off the association and onto individual owners, gave every lot its own meter and its own water bill, and imposed a recorded watering timetable keyed to the last digit of the house number. The association reserves the right to padlock the controller.

Three practical consequences.

Irrigation is your bill, not the association’s. In many Florida neighborhoods irrigation water is a common expense inside the assessment. Here it is metered to the lot. That means the association fee excludes it and your utility bill includes it, and a comparison against a neighborhood where irrigation is bundled will understate your cost here.

The watering schedule is recorded, not advisory. A timetable keyed to the last digit of a house number is a covenant obligation at Creekside Run, enforceable like any other. Ask which days apply to the specific address you are buying.

The padlock provision is unusual and should be read before it is needed. The association reserving a right to lock an owner’s irrigation controller is a self-help remedy, and a buyer should know it exists rather than discover it.

One note on how this was found, because it affects anyone trying to verify it. The amendment does not appear in a Clerk name search for “Creekside Run,” because the indexed party name is the developer’s entity rather than the neighborhood. Searching the neighborhood name alone would return the declaration and miss the amendment that changed it. Search by instrument number, 3369168, or ask the Clerk on (941) 637-2335.

What Does It Cost to Own a Creekside Run Home Each Year?

At least $4,303.84 a year in district, county and master association charges before property taxes, insurance and the neighborhood association fee, with two components genuinely unknown. The table below is built from published and billed figures only, so a buyer can substitute their own numbers as the unknowns resolve.

Data updated: September 2026. Modelled on a completed home on a single-family 42-foot homesite.

Three caveats travel with that table. The association fee is missing and it is not a rounding error; comparable neighborhood assessments in this series run from several hundred to over three thousand dollars a year, and this association carries a private road network and a pool. Irrigation is a separate bill here where it is bundled elsewhere. And the tax figure will move as newly built homes are assessed as improved property for the first time, with Florida’s Save Our Homes cap only beginning to protect a homestead the year after it is established.

What Does It Cost to Close on a Creekside Run Home?

Four separate charges beyond the ordinary Florida costs, and one of them has no stated amount in the recorded declaration, which is itself the finding. A buyer of a new home pays a Start-Up Contribution to the Declarant; a buyer of a resale pays $1,000 to the association; every buyer pays $540 of master working capital; and the seller pays a Community Enhancement Fee of up to 0.25 percent.

A capital contribution with no number in the recorded document is unusual and worth pressing on. The declaration obliges it without fixing it, which means the amount is set outside the recorded record. Ask the closing agent for the figure in writing before you sign a contract, not at the closing table, and ask who receives it: at Creekside Run it is the Declarant, which as the next sections explain is not the builder currently selling homes.

The Community Enhancement Fee is the seller’s charge and it is easy to miss when buying. At up to 0.25 percent it is about $1,163 on a $465,000 sale, and it becomes your cost the day you sell.

One title-review item that belongs in front of a buyer’s attorney rather than buried. Instrument 3517225 is a recorded deferred payment obligation running with title at Creekside Run. An obligation that runs with title binds successive owners, so ask your closing agent and your attorney what it requires of you specifically, and get the answer before the inspection period closes. Charlotte County Clerk, Official Records, (941) 637-2335.

Can I Rent Out a Home in Creekside Run?

Yes, on a six-month minimum, with association approval of every lease in its sole discretion, and room rentals prohibited outright. Six months is three times the two-month floor that applies across the rest of Babcock Ranch, and it applies here because Creekside Run’s own declaration expressly carves out more restrictive neighborhood terms, so the stricter neighborhood rule governs rather than the town-wide one.

That last row is worth understanding, because it is counterintuitive and because it means you cannot answer this question for one Babcock Ranch neighborhood by reading another. Two neighborhoods in the same town, under the same master Charter, reach opposite results: one because its declaration subordinates itself entirely to the Charter, the other because its declaration reserves the right to be stricter. Only the neighborhood’s own conflict clause settles it.

Practical consequences for a landlord here. Six months means one or at most two tenancies a year, and it puts a Creekside Run lease on the exempt side of Charlotte County’s Tourist Development Tax, which applies at 5 percent to accommodations rented for six months or less with a bona fide written lease over six months exempt. Approval in the association’s sole discretion is a real gate, not a formality, and the board that exercises it is currently developer-appointed. And at master level, renters must complete a lease application, provide identification for every adult occupant, obtain sub-association approval and pay a processing fee; approved renters receive the same town amenity access as residents.

Why Is Short-Term Rental Foreclosed at Babcock Ranch?

Not by the term minimum, which is what most people assume, but by an advertising clause. Section 7.1(f) of the Babcock Ranch Community Charter forbids advertising any home for overnight or transient lodging on the open internet. That provision, rather than the six-month or two-month floor, is what actually ends the short-term rental model here, and it would do so even if the term minimum were shorter.

The distinction matters because of a mistake this page has seen made repeatedly. A buyer should not read a Charlotte County tourist development tax registration as evidence that short-term rental is permitted. The county’s tax rules and a private recorded covenant are different bodies of law, and a county that will happily collect a tax on a transaction has said nothing about whether your deed restrictions allow it.

So the honest summary for anyone evaluating Creekside Run as an income property: the model that works here is an annual or seasonal lease of six months or more, approved by the association. The model that does not work is anything advertised nightly or weekly, at any price, on any platform. Any marketing that implies otherwise is wrong about this town.

What Are the Pet Rules at Creekside Run?

The master rule of three dogs and three cats, plus a reasonable number of caged birds and other common household pets, applies here, with the neighborhood declaration adding the usual leash, containment and nuisance provisions rather than a stricter numeric cap. Pets must be leashed or confined outside the home, registered, licensed and inoculated as law requires, and the board may order and then effect removal of an animal that becomes an unreasonable annoyance.

That places Creekside Run in the middle of this series rather than at either end. Sabal Glen caps pets at three in total, which is stricter. Waterview Landing sets no number but bans reptiles and leaves the count to board discretion. Creekside Run follows the town rule, which is the most permissive of the three on numbers.

Two open points a buyer should close before relying on any of it. No neighborhood rules instrument has been recorded, and the declaration contemplates that the board may adopt rules covering weight, number and breed. A future board could adopt limits that the recorded documents do not contain. Ask RealManage on 1-866-473-2573 whether any pet rules have been adopted and get the answer in writing.

And one safety note that belongs beside any pet discussion in a neighborhood built around stormwater lakes. The district republishes the state wildlife commission’s guidance that dogs and cats are similar in size to an alligator’s natural prey, and that pets should not swim, exercise or drink in or near waters that may contain alligators.

Where Can I Park a Boat, a Trailer or a Commercial Vehicle?

In the garage, and the enforcement here has teeth because the street is private and owned by the association. Boats, trailers, recreational vehicles, commercial vehicles and the rest of the usual list must be enclosed within a garage rather than stored on a driveway or a street, and the association may tow at the owner’s expense.

The town-level definition of a commercial vehicle is the one that catches people out, and it is sharper than it sounds. The master charter treats as a commercial vehicle any vehicle displaying a name, logo or message for advertising “if the area devoted thereto exceeds 1 square foot in any location or 2 square feet in total.” A tradesperson’s pickup with a company decal larger than one square foot is a commercial vehicle at Babcock Ranch and must be garaged. The same rules treat a vehicle parked outside a garage undriven for 30 days, or 14 days with a flat tyre, as stored or inoperable.

Why the private street matters. Tract B-113 is owned by the association, not by Charlotte County, so the association rather than the county controls parking on it, and Florida law permits the owner of private property to remove a trespassing vehicle. What the covenant does not do is set the notice and signage requirements; Florida Statute 715.07 supplies those regardless, including conspicuous signage at each entrance naming the towing company and its telephone number. An owner whose car is towed should read that statute before paying.

There is no boat or recreational vehicle storage tract at Creekside Run. The master association does list a commercial vehicle storage lot among the town’s amenities, with availability and cost unpublished; call (941) 676-7191. And on golf carts: district Resolution 2023-24 confines them to designated roads and prohibits them on sidewalks, bike lanes and unpaved trails, and Florida law now requires an operator to hold a valid licence or learner’s permit, or be at least 18.

Do I Need Approval to Add a Pool, a Fence or Landscaping?

Yes, and from two reviewers in sequence: Creekside Run’s own architectural committee first, then the master association’s Founders Review Committee. Anything touching a right of way or the water adds a district review, and Charlotte County adds a permit. The master states the order in its own words: “If you live in a sub-HOA community, you must obtain their approval before seeking approval from the master HOA.”

The master’s published fee schedule is what a Creekside Run owner pays at the town layer:

Swimming pools additionally carry district fees of $476, being $100 for site plan review and $376 for right-of-way inspection, and the master requires a signed and sealed survey from a Florida licensed engineer or surveyor showing pad elevations, pool beam elevation, lot drainage and a defined access route. Above-ground pools are prohibited at town level.

Two Creekside Run specifics. Fifteen of the 70 standing homes already have pools, so the process is well travelled here. And on any lot backing onto water, a lake maintenance easement limits how far a permanent structure can extend, which is the practical constraint on cage size.

What Happens If a Committee Never Answers?

The answer depends on which committee, and Creekside Run is the only neighborhood in this series where the two reviewers have opposite rules on silence. Silence at the neighborhood committee is a deemed DISAPPROVAL. Silence at the master reviewer is a deemed APPROVAL.

For comparison across this series: Waterview Landing makes silence a deemed disapproval at four separate points, and Sabal Glen has no deadline and no deemed outcome at all. Creekside Run splits the difference, and the split is not academic because the neighborhood review comes first.

What that means in practice. The stage where silence hurts you is the stage you have to clear before you can even reach the second one. An owner whose neighborhood submission goes unanswered has been refused, and the master’s owner-friendly rule never comes into play.

So the practical advice is specific to this neighborhood: submit to the neighborhood committee early, in writing, complete, and follow up in writing before the window closes rather than after. An incomplete submission is the commonest cause of silence. Keep dated copies. And if a project is time-critical, such as a pool contract with a start date, make the contract contingent on written approval rather than on a calendar date. Florida Statute 720.303(5) gives an owner the right to inspect the association’s official records, including committee records, within ten business days of a written request, which is the lever when nothing is happening.

Can I Put Solar Panels on a Creekside Run Roof?

Yes. Florida Statute 163.04(2) provides that a deed restriction or covenant “may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors ... from being installed on buildings,” and confines an association’s placement power to the roof plane within an orientation to the south or 45 degrees east or west of due south, “if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors.” The master association charges no fee for a solar application.

The master’s published guidance asks for a roof plan showing panel locations and the battery or house connection point, and provides that panels cannot go on the front elevation unless an optimization survey confirms it is the best location. On a north-facing lot the best plane is often the front, and the survey is the homeowner’s cost.

Florida Statute 163.04(3) awards costs and reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in a dispute about this, which is why Florida associations generally approve solar and argue only about placement. A homeowner whose best plane is the front elevation should get the optimization survey, submit it, and take a Florida community association attorney’s view if either reviewer refuses.

Nothing requires a Creekside Run owner to install solar. The town’s renewable identity comes from the utility-scale array at its edge, which the utility owns, not from a rooftop obligation in any covenant.

What Else Does the Creekside Run Declaration Restrict?

The declaration runs to 101 recorded pages plus a six-page recorded amendment, and the provisions that cost money are not the ones a summary sheet mentions. The table below sets out the restrictions most likely to surprise a buyer, each taken from the recorded instrument itself rather than from a marketing description, with the two that carry a recurring or a five-figure cost drawn out underneath it.

Two of these have real money attached. The irrigation amendment is a recurring bill that neighborhoods elsewhere bundle into the assessment. And the no-alteration-of-drainage clause means a pool contractor’s grading plan is reviewed against a signed and sealed survey rather than accepted on the contractor’s word, in a neighborhood where the association rather than the district carries the surface water obligation.

Who Controls the Creekside Run Homeowners Association?

The Declarant does, through the standard Florida two-class structure, and at Creekside Run the identity of that declarant is the most distinctive legal fact on this page. The Class B member appoints the entire board, sets the budget, appoints the architectural committee and decides appeals from it. At 77 of 291 homesites conveyed, owner control is years away.

What is unusual here is who that declarant is, and the next section is about it. In short: the company that controls the association is not the company selling homes on the street today.

Two things follow that matter regardless. Every figure and rule on this page that comes from the association is a developer decision, not a residents’ board decision: the assessment, the absence of recorded rules, the reserve position and the fine schedule. And the association’s records are open to owners now, without waiting for turnover: Florida Statute 720.303(5) gives every owner the right to inspect the official records within ten business days of a written request, which is the practical route to the budget and the assessment.

Two Companies, Two Roles

The company selling homes at Creekside Run and the company controlling its homeowners association are not the same company. That is lawful, disclosed in the recorded record, and easy to miss. This section sets out what the instruments actually say and what a buyer should ask before closing.

Why Is the Builder Selling the Homes Not the Declarant?

Because the declarant rights never moved. This is the single most distinctive legal finding on this page and it is not published anywhere else. Christopher Alan’s entity, CAH-Creekside Run, LLC, is still the Declarant of Creekside Run. The recorded instrument that brings Dream Finders in, instrument 3517226, is a Designation of Builder, not an assignment of declarant rights, and it states on its face that it includes no assumption of declarant obligations.

That instrument refers to a future Assignment and Assumption of Declarant’s Rights defined in an agreement that is not recorded, and no such assignment appears in the Charlotte County records. Meanwhile CAH-Creekside Run, LLC remains active on the Florida corporate register and was still recording mortgage modifications in August 2026, so this is not a dormant shell that simply forgot to file.

What this means, stated carefully and without accusation. A buyer at Creekside Run is buying a house from Dream Finders and buying into an association controlled by Christopher Alan’s entity. Those are two different companies with two different sets of obligations. It is a lawful and disclosed structure, and it is common enough during a handover, but it has consequences a buyer should understand:

• The declarant obligations, including anything owed to the association, remain with the original entity. Dream Finders expressly did not assume them.

• The architectural committee is appointed by the declarant, so approvals on your new Dream Finders home run through a body appointed by the earlier developer.

• The turnover audit that Florida law requires at transition would be the original declarant’s obligation, and it is the document that eventually shows whether funds were advanced to the association and on what terms.

• An assignment may yet be recorded. This is a point-in-time finding, and a buyer or their attorney should re-check the Clerk’s records at contract rather than relying on this page.

The action item is simple. Ask your closing agent and your attorney to search for a recorded Assignment and Assumption of Declarant’s Rights before closing, and ask in writing who your counterparty is for a declarant obligation. Charlotte County Clerk, Official Records, (941) 637-2335.

When Will the Association Turn Over to Residents?

Not soon. Turnover at the customary 90 percent threshold requires 262 of the 291 homesites to be conveyed. Seventy-seven are, which is 26.5 percent. With 214 homesites still to build and sell, and a builder that only opened models in February 2026, owner control is several years out on any realistic delivery schedule.

Florida Statute 720.307 sets the triggers, with the 90 percent conveyance threshold the usual one, and earlier triggers available if the developer turns over voluntarily or ceases construction. The statute also requires the developer to deliver a turnover audit prepared by an independent certified public accountant.

For comparison across this series: Waterview Landing crossed its 90 percent trigger in December 2025 and the live question there is why turnover has not happened. Sabal Glen is at 11.6 percent. Creekside Run at 26.5 percent sits between them and, like both, means any buyer is buying into years of developer control as the base case.

Are There Funded Reserves at Creekside Run?

The recorded declaration states that reserves are unfunded, in capitals, and that is a more consequential fact at Creekside Run than at most neighborhoods because of what this association owns. It holds a 13.78-acre private street network including its surface water management and a 2.01-acre amenity tract with a pool built in 2024. Both have replacement horizons measured in decades and both are the association’s to fund.

Florida law does not require a homeowners association to fund reserves unless the members vote to do so or the governing documents require it, so this is a lawful and disclosed structure rather than a defect. What it means is that resurfacing the roads and eventually replacing the pool equipment and surface will be paid out of future assessments or a special assessment, by whoever owns here when the bill arrives.

The three questions to put in writing before closing:

1. Has any reserve account been established, and what is in it? Florida Statute 720.303(5) obliges the association to make its official records available within ten business days of a written request.

2. Has any reserve study been performed on the roadway or on the pool and cabana, and what does it say about remaining useful life and replacement cost?

3. Have the street tract and the amenity tract been conveyed from the land bank to the association yet, and if not, when?

Manager: RealManage, 1-866-473-2573. A pool that is two years old costs little today, and the point of a reserve is that it never stays two years old.

How Does the Association Enforce the Rules?

With fines, liens, self-help, towing and fee-shifting. The fine structure is the one worth knowing: $100 per day with no aggregate ceiling. Florida Statute 720.305 sets defaults of $100 per violation and a $1,000 aggregate cap, and permits the governing documents to override them. Creekside Run keeps the $100 and removes the ceiling, so a continuing violation can accumulate without a statutory stopping point.

The owner protections that survive whatever the declaration says, and that owners most often do not know they have:

• At least fourteen days’ written notice of a hearing before any fine may be imposed.

• A hearing before an independent committee of at least three members who are not officers, directors or employees of the association, nor their spouses, parents, children or siblings. If that committee does not approve the fine by majority vote, it cannot be imposed.

• A fine of less than $1,000 may not become a lien against the parcel.

• The right to inspect the official records, including the fining committee’s, within ten business days of a written request.

• Florida Statute 715.07 protections before a tow, including conspicuous signage at each entrance naming the towing company and its number.

One structural point: the board, the fining committee and the appeals path are all declarant-appointed, and at Creekside Run the declarant is the earlier builder rather than the one selling homes now.

How Far Is Creekside Run From Everything?

Creekside Run is in Charlotte County and almost everything a household uses is in Lee County. Downtown Fort Myers is 16.05 road miles; the Charlotte County seat in Punta Gorda, where this neighborhood’s courthouse, recording office and tax collector sit, is 32.85 miles, which is 2.05 times farther. Within the town, this is one of the better-placed neighborhoods: Founder’s Square is 3.51 miles and the school 2.61.

Every figure was routed on 9 September 2026 from Creekside Run’s own computed centroid using the OpenStreetMap-based OSRM driving profile. Times are free-flow, not rush hour.

Four consequences that matter more than the individual rows:

• The nearest interstate access is in Lee County at 11.95 miles. Tuckers Grade in Charlotte County is 23.80, which is 99 percent farther. Anyone repeating the common line that Babcock Ranch’s nearest interstate is Tuckers Grade is measuring the wrong exit.

• The nearest 24-hour emergency room is in a different county, at 17.23 miles. The nearest Charlotte County one is 37.95, more than twice as far. Babcock Ranch has urgent care, not an emergency room, 3.39 miles away.

• The town core is genuinely close. School at 2.61 miles and groceries at 3.51 put Creekside Run among the better-connected neighborhoods in this series, roughly half Sabal Glen’s distance to the same points.

• Anything recorded, taxed, permitted or litigated happens 32.85 miles away in Punta Gorda.

What Schools Serve Creekside Run?

Creekside Run is in Charlotte County Public Schools, and Babcock Ranch addresses in the county are zoned to East Elementary, Punta Gorda Middle and Charlotte High, all near Punta Gorda at the far end of the county. The district earned an A district grade for 2026, its first in fifteen years. Two published capacity constraints belong beside that.

Charlotte High is over capacity and marked closed in every grade it serves. The district’s own capacity page shows programmatic capacity below actual enrolment in grades nine through twelve, with available capacity marked closed across the board. East Elementary shows closures at Kindergarten and Grade 1 for the 2026 to 2027 year.

And one honest gap. This page could not confirm the zoned assignment for a Cottontail Circle address from the district’s own Boundary Locator, which returned a server error on every query attempted. The district’s page itself carries the caveat that the locator is only a guide and that families should call the school to confirm. So should you: Charlotte County Public Schools Student Assignment, (941) 255-0808.

Does a Creekside Run Address Help With the Charter School?

Yes, and it is closer here than at most Babcock Ranch neighborhoods. Babcock Neighborhood School is a charter school with a lottery, not the zoned school, so a seat is never guaranteed by buying a house. But the school operates a published enrollment priority policy whose tiers include one defined by the boundaries of the Babcock Ranch Community Independent Special District, and Creekside Run sits inside that district as “Village 2 Parcel 5” on the district’s own assessment schedule.

The campus is 2.61 road miles and about 8 minutes from Creekside Run, which is the closest of any neighborhood in this series.

What the priority is worth depends on how many higher-tier applicants there are and how deep the waitlist runs, and neither figure is published. Call the school on (239) 567-3043 for the application window, the tier definitions and current waitlist depth, and the district on (941) 255-0808 for the zoned fallback. Do both before the inspection period closes, because the fallback high school is currently closed at every grade.

What Utilities Serve Creekside Run?

Central water and sewer, electricity, reclaimed-water irrigation, district-run solid waste and bulk fibre internet, each dedicated on the face of the recorded plat rather than merely advertised. All 70 built homes carry central water and waste water service and all 70 are all-electric for heating and cooling.

Two Creekside Run specifics worth carrying into a budget. Irrigation is a separate metered bill here, where several neighborhoods bundle it into the association assessment, so a like-for-like comparison must add it. And water and sewer rates are not published anywhere this build could reach; Town and Country Utilities operates through the district and the number is (800) 826-5721.

Is the Internet Included at Creekside Run?

Yes. One gigabit symmetrical fibre from Quantum Fiber is bulk-contracted at town level and already inside the master association assessment, at $135 of the $408 quarterly charge, which is $540 a year. No Creekside Run household pays for it separately and none can opt out.

Two consequences. A buyer comparing monthly carrying costs against a conventional neighborhood should subtract a retail internet bill from the comparison, because it is inside the master figure rather than on top of it. And because the service is bulk-contracted, the choice of provider is not the homeowner’s; a household wanting a different carrier pays twice.

The town’s fibre was built as original infrastructure rather than retrofitted, and the plat’s public utility easement names cable television and telephone providers among the dedicated uses, so the physical right of way exists on every street here. For speed tiers and support, contact the master association on (941) 676-7191, which administers the bulk agreement.

Are There Alligators, Panthers and Wild Hogs?

Yes to all three, and the useful answer is a phone number for each rather than reassurance. Babcock Ranch was master-planned around a Florida panther mitigation plan covering roughly 11,000 acres of habitat in the Florida Wildlife Corridor, and Creekside Run has stormwater lakes inside its own boundary.

Alligators are a certainty, not a risk. The district’s guidance states that the lakes are home to alligators, that patrons use them at their own risk, that wildlife must not be fed or bothered, and that aggressive behaviour should be reported immediately. Feeding an alligator is a crime in Florida and it is the single behaviour that turns a wild alligator dangerous. Do not let a dog swim, exercise or drink at the water’s edge. Nuisance alligator hotline: (866) 392-4286.

Panthers are documented, not folklore, on trail cameras in the surrounding corridor over roughly a decade. The species is endangered and protected. Sightings go to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Wild hogs are a real and recurring nuisance, particularly in newer neighborhoods where fresh sod is exactly what a hog roots through. Local reporting puts the town’s capture programme in the thousands with a substantial share relocated and no aggression toward residents recorded. Creekside Run, with 214 homesites still to be built and landscaped, is squarely in the exposed category. Report damage to the district on (941) 235-2010.

Why Does State Road 31 Matter So Much?

Because it is the only practical road out. Every routed destination above begins with several miles of State Road 31, and the two nearest interstate interchanges, both in Lee County at about 12 miles, are reached by driving south on it. Babcock Ranch’s growth, its commute times and its emergency access all run through a single state highway.

What residents report town-wide, and it belongs alongside the free-flow figures rather than behind them: the airport at 32 minutes at 3:30 in the morning and up to an hour and a half at 9 am; Naples at one to one and a half hours in season; Fort Myers at 30 to 45 minutes and more than an hour at peak, with Babcock Ranch Road reported slowing to a crawl at times. Ride-hailing availability is reported as unreliable. These are resident reports rather than a transportation study, and this page labels them as such, but they are consistent across many accounts.

The structural fix is the Wilson Pigott bridge replacement, a six-lane 55-foot fixed high bridge with construction reported to begin in 2028. The current bridge was fully closed for about ten days in April 2026 and reopened on 22 April 2026, a reminder that it is a single point of failure on the southbound route.

The honest summary: the free-flow times on this page are real, the peak-hour penalty is real, and the gap between them is the biggest lifestyle variable at Babcock Ranch. Creekside Run’s advantage is that its in-town trips are short; its exposure is the same State Road 31 corridor everyone else uses.

What Is Coming to Babcock Ranch Next?

Enough that a buyer here is partly buying the town’s forward plan. Within Creekside Run itself, the nearest horizon is simple and large: 214 homesites still to be built by a builder that opened models in February 2026, which means years of adjacent construction inside your own neighborhood.

One correction that affects how a buyer reads a sales presentation. The developer’s stated 2027 date for the bridge work does not match the reported 2028 construction start, and the exact letting date is unverified. For the authoritative schedule call the Florida Department of Transportation District One office on (863) 519-2300. This page reports the discrepancy rather than picking the more flattering date.

Should I Buy New From Dream Finders or Buy a Resale?

At Creekside Run this is a real choice with a twist no other neighborhood in this series has: a resale here is a different builder’s house. The 70 standing homes are almost entirely Christopher Alan’s, at a 1,716 square foot median; the new homes are Dream Finders’, at a 2,603 square foot plan median. You are not choosing between a used version and a new version of the same product.

The case for new is choice and warranty: twelve plans, three lot widths, three-car garages at the top, and a warranty from the company standing in front of you. The case for a resale is that it is often single storey, frequently already has a pool and screen enclosure that would cost you two reviews and a five-figure sum to add, and is priced by a market rather than a price sheet.

The thing to do either way: establish which builder built the house, get the warranty document, get the flood determination on the specific parcel, and get the association fee in writing with its period. Those four answers decide more here than the sticker price does.

How Does Creekside Run Compare to Other Babcock Ranch Neighborhoods?

It sits in the upper middle of the town on price, it is one of the closest to the town core, and it is the only one this program has measured with both a genuine neighborhood amenity and a builder handover. All figures use one definition: qualified arm’s-length improved deeds recorded with Charlotte County in the twelve months to 31 August 2026.

Three comparisons that change a decision.

Against Northridge and Verde, its nearest price neighbours. All three sit between $447,000 and $465,000. Neither Northridge nor Verde has a neighborhood amenity; Creekside Run has a pool and cabana. Northridge is 85 percent built out and Creekside Run is 26.5 percent, so one is a settled neighborhood and the other is a construction site with a pool.

Against Sabal Glen, the flood contrast. Four road miles apart, and one is 227 of 230 parcels inside the Special Flood Hazard Area while the other is 256 of 317 entirely outside it. That single difference is worth more to a financed buyer than the $126,700 gap in their medians suggests.

Against Tucker’s Cove, on liquidity. Tucker’s Cove records 235 closings a year against Creekside Run’s 14. If you may need to sell within five years, that difference in turnover is a genuine risk factor: a market with 235 transactions has price discovery, and one with 14 builder sales does not.

How Can I Verify Everything on This Page Myself?

Every figure here comes from a public record you can pull yourself, and this section says where each one lives. That matters at Creekside Run because the two facts that decide the most, which builder built the house and which flood zone the parcel is in, are both free to check and neither appears in an ordinary listing.

Two habits worth adopting. Take the sale price from the deed, not from a portal or a developer page, because the developer’s prices here are wrong in both directions. And take the covenants from the recorded declaration and its amendment, because a summary will not mention the irrigation change, the deemed disapproval, the uncapped fine or the fact that the declarant never changed.

What Should I Check Before Buying in Creekside Run?

A neighborhood-specific list, ordered by how expensive the question becomes if it goes unasked until after closing. Every item comes from something this page found in the Charlotte County record, the 101-page declaration, its amendment, the plat or the district budget.

1. Establish which builder built the house, from the year built on the record card, and get the original warranty document in full.

2. Get the flood determination for the specific parcel in writing. Sixty-one parcels touch Zone AE and 256 do not, and they are on the same street.

3. If the parcel touches Zone AE, ask whether a Letter of Map Amendment exists, and get the elevation certificate. At least three have been issued at Creekside Run.

4. Get the association fee in writing with its period stated. No claim of lien exists, so it is not in the public record.

5. Ask for the Start-Up Contribution amount, which the declaration obliges without stating.

6. Ask your attorney about instrument 3517225, the recorded deferred payment obligation running with title.

7. Have the Clerk searched for a recorded Assignment and Assumption of Declarant’s Rights. As at this build, none exists and the declarant is the earlier builder.

8. Ask whether the street and amenity tracts have been conveyed to the association from the land bank.

9. Ask whether any reserve study exists for the 13.78-acre private street or the 2024-built pool.

10. Budget irrigation as a separate utility bill, and ask which watering days apply to the house number.

11. Order a wind mitigation inspection. 95.7 percent of homes carry impact glass, but the insurer prices your specific home.

12. If you plan to lease, read the six-month minimum and the sole-discretion approval before you rely on any rental projection.

13. Measure the garage against the vehicles you own. Boats, trailers and commercial vehicles must be garaged, and a company decal over one square foot makes a pickup a commercial vehicle.

14. Submit any architectural application early and in writing, because silence at the neighborhood committee is a refusal.

15. Ask about amenity hours, guest rules and access, none of which is in the recorded record.

16. Call the charter school and the district for the lottery window and the zoned fallback, given Charlotte High’s closures.

17. Drive the commute you will actually drive, at the hour you will drive it.

Thinking of Selling in Creekside Run?

Then you are selling into an unusual situation and it deserves a straight description. Your competition is a builder that has 214 homesites left and only opened its models in February 2026, which is the hardest version of the problem this program has documented across the town. And your house is probably a different product from what that builder is selling: smaller, single storey, by a builder no longer on the street.

The one comparable sale in the neighborhood’s history is encouraging rather than otherwise. It made $13,000 on a 25.6-month hold, which is the first winning resale this program has recorded at Babcock Ranch, and the hold was longer than the median in either neighborhood where most sellers lost money. Holding period is the variable that decides the outcome here.

Selling costs more than most sellers expect, and two charges are specific to Babcock Ranch. The master association’s Community Enhancement Fee of up to 0.25 percent is paid by the seller, about $1,163 at the current median. And because Creekside Run is a sub-association, two estoppel certificates are required rather than one. Neither is a reason not to sell; both belong in the net sheet on day one.

What a Creekside Run seller actually needs is a price built from the right comparables. That means matching on builder, on size and on flood zone, three variables that split this neighborhood internally and that no automated estimate accounts for. A 1,700 square foot Christopher Alan home on a Zone X parcel and a 2,600 square foot Dream Finders home on a parcel touching Zone AE are not the same asset, and a median that blends them will misprice both.

Get a Real Valuation on Your Creekside Run Home

We will pull every recorded deed in the neighborhood, match your home on builder, size and flood zone rather than on a neighborhood average, price the builder overhang honestly, and hand you the net sheet with the enhancement fee and both estoppels already in it. Request your home valuation, or talk to us first if you would rather start with a conversation. Call Jesse McGreevy direct at (239) 898-6072.

What This Page Could Not Verify, and Who to Call

Eighteen questions about Creekside Run could not be answered from a primary source, and this page publishes each one with the authority and the phone number rather than filling it with a plausible guess. Several have no published answer anywhere, which is what happens in a three-year-old neighborhood that changed builders and whose association has never recorded a lien. Two figures are withheld deliberately rather than merely missing, and the reasons are given below.

Why We Publish Our Gaps

Because a named gap with a phone number is more useful to a buyer than a confident guess, and because in a neighborhood that changed builders mid-build the guesses are exactly where the money is lost. Every row below is something we could not settle from a primary source, with the authority that holds the answer.

Two things are deliberately withheld rather than merely missing. No association fee figure appears anywhere on this page, because none is in the public record and a number without a frequency is not a fee. And no flood premium and no freeboard calculation appears, because both would require inventing structure-specific inputs that do not exist in any record.

Downloadable Documents and Primary Sources for Creekside Run

These are the instruments themselves, by number, so a buyer, a lender or an attorney can pull the original rather than a summary. All sit in the Charlotte County official records, and the Clerk serves document images without a login.

Two notes on using this list. The declaration is 101 pages and the clauses that cost money are not in the first ten. And the amendment is the one people miss, because a Clerk name search on the neighborhood will not return it; search by instrument number 3369168 or ask the Clerk on (941) 637-2335.

Sources

Every factual claim on this page traces to one of the records below. County deed and parcel data came from the Charlotte County Property Appraiser’s own downloadable files, the deed file dated 6 September 2026 and the parcel roll dated 7 September 2026, with all 317 record cards read individually. Recorded instruments were read from Charlotte County Clerk document images. Flood status was measured parcel by parcel. Road distances were routed on 9 September 2026. Data updated: September 2026.

County records, deeds, parcels and the plat

• Charlotte County Clerk of the Circuit Court, official records: recording.charlotteclerk.com

• Clerk, search by instrument number: instrument search

• Clerk, search by name: name search

• Clerk, search by legal description: legal search

• Clerk, plats and condominiums: plat search

• Charlotte County Property Appraiser: ccappraiser.com

• Property Appraiser, the amenity tract record card: account 422633102307

• Property Appraiser, parcel roll download: charlotte.zip

• Property Appraiser, sales file download: sales.zip

• Charlotte County Tax Collector: property tax search

• Charlotte County government: charlottecountyfl.gov

• Florida statewide cadastral parcel layer: Florida Geographic Information Office

• Florida Division of Corporations: sunbiz.org

Flood and hazard

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood Hazard Layer: NFHL MapServer

• Charlotte County Letter of Map Change library: FEMA LOMC index

• Letter of Map Revision 24-04-2314P, effective 4 November 2025: the governing revision

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, map service center: msc.fema.gov

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, flood maps: fema.gov

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, Risk Rating 2.0: how premiums are priced

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, Letter of Map Amendment: map change process

• National Flood Insurance Program: floodsmart.gov

• National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ian report: tropical cyclone report AL092022

• Charlotte County flood information: emergency management

• Charlotte County elevation certificates: building and construction

The builders

• Dream Finders Homes, Creekside Run 42 foot collection: collection page

• Dream Finders Homes, Creekside Run 52 foot collection: collection page

• Dream Finders Homes, Creekside Run 62 foot collection: collection page

• Dream Finders, Turin plan: 1,657 square feet

• Dream Finders, Salerno plan: 2,002 square feet

• Dream Finders, Florence plan: 2,103 square feet

• Dream Finders, Modena plan: 2,519 square feet

• Dream Finders, Lucca plan: 1,971 square feet

• Dream Finders, Ravenna plan: 2,088 square feet

• Dream Finders, Ravenna II plan: 2,699 square feet

• Dream Finders, Arlington plan: 2,687 square feet

• Dream Finders, Boca plan: 2,723 square feet

• Dream Finders, Arlington With Bonus plan: 3,099 square feet

• Dream Finders, Ellington plan: 3,550 square feet

• Dream Finders, Boca II plan: 3,278 square feet

• Dream Finders Homes, warranty and customer care: connect

• Dream Finders Homes, design studio: design studio

• Dream Finders Homes, first-time buyers: buyer guidance

• Christopher Alan Homes, Southwest Florida: southwest-florida

• Christopher Alan Homes, Creekside Run pre-sales announcement: pre-sales launch

• Christopher Alan Homes, Creekside Run sales launch: sales launch

• Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System consumer access: nmlsconsumeraccess.org

The town, the district and the master association

• Babcock Ranch, Creekside Run: developer neighborhood page

• Babcock Ranch, Dream Finders Homes: developer builder page

• Babcock Ranch, all builders: builder directory

• Babcock Ranch, all neighborhoods: neighborhood directory

• Babcock Ranch, resident amenities: amenities

• Babcock Ranch, Founder’s Square: Founder’s Square

• Babcock Ranch, education: education

• Babcock Ranch, resilient design: resilient design

• Babcock Ranch Community Independent Special District: about the district

• District assessment fees: assessment fees

• District adopted budget: FY2026 adopted budget

• District agenda center: agendas and minutes

• District enabling law: Chapter 2007-306

• Resolution 2023-24, golf cart policies: Resolution 2023-24

• Governing documents: Babcock Ranch governing documents

• Architectural review: Founders Review Committee

• Solar devices: solar guidelines

• Renter information: lease application and renter rules

• Wildlife coexistence: wildlife guidance

• Community safety awareness: e-bike and cart rules

• Water utilities: district water utilities

• Utility rates: rates page

• Emergency and after-hours contacts: emergency contacts

Schools and local reporting

• Charlotte County Public Schools: yourcharlotteschools.net

• Charlotte County Public Schools, charter schools: charter schools page

• Charlotte County Public Schools, Charlotte High capacities: capacity page

• Charlotte County Public Schools, East Elementary capacities: capacity page

• Charlotte County Public Schools, boundary locator: boundary locator

• Babcock Neighborhood School, admissions: admissions and the lottery

• Babcock Neighborhood School, frequently asked questions: school FAQ

• Babcock Ranch Telegraph: local reporting

• WINK News, Class 3 e-bikes at Babcock Ranch: county vote

• WINK News, Wilson Pigott bridge plans: FDOT plans

• News-Press, drawbridge closure routes: alternate routes

• Florida Department of Transportation, State Road 31 project: swflroads.com

Florida law and agencies

• Florida Statute 720, homeowners associations: Chapter 720

• Florida Statute 720.307, transition of association control: section 720.307

• Florida Statute 720.305, obligations and remedies: section 720.305

• Florida Statute 720.303, association powers and records: section 720.303

• Florida Statute 720.30851, estoppel certificates: section 720.30851

• Florida Statute 720.304, owner rights including flags: section 720.304

• Florida Statute 163.04, renewable energy devices: section 163.04

• Florida Statute 715.07, removal of vehicles from private property: section 715.07

• Florida Statute 553.837, new home warranty: section 553.837

• Florida Office of Insurance Regulation: floir.com

• Florida Department of Financial Services, consumers: myfloridacfo.com

• Citizens Property Insurance Corporation: citizensfla.com

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission: myfwc.com

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, alligators: nuisance alligator program

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, wild hog: feral hog information

• Florida Department of Transportation, District One: FDOT District One

• Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: myfloridalicense.com

• Florida Building Code: floridabuilding.org

• OpenStreetMap routing engine used for the distance table: OSRM driving profile

• OpenStreetMap: openstreetmap.org

This series

• Creekside Run at Babcock Ranch

• Sabal Glen at Midtown at Babcock Ranch

• Waterview Landing at Babcock Ranch

• Northridge at Babcock Ranch

• Regency at Babcock Ranch

• Crescent Lakes at Babcock Ranch

• Webb’s Reserve at Babcock Ranch

• Tucker’s Cove at Babcock Ranch

• Verde at Babcock Ranch

• Palmetto Landing at Babcock Ranch

Frequently Asked Questions About Creekside Run

Where exactly is Creekside Run?

In Babcock Ranch, Charlotte County, Florida 33982, on Cottontail Circle, River Otter Road, Great Heron Lane and Creekside Run Lane. It is 3.51 road miles from Founder’s Square and 2.61 from the charter school.

How many homes are in Creekside Run?

291 residential units on 101.79 acres, from the plat recorded 10 March 2023. Seventy are built and 77 homesites have been conveyed, so 214 remain.

Who is the builder?

Two of them. Christopher Alan Homes opened Creekside Run and built its first 65 homes; Dream Finders Homes is building 226 of the 291 and opened models in February 2026.

Why did the builder change?

Dream Finders took down 226 parcels for $22.6 million on 16 April 2025. Builders trade land positions routinely, particularly where a land bank holds the lots. It is the reason the county record shows 59 homes built in 2024 and only 8 in 2025.

Does it matter which builder built my house?

Yes, for the warranty above all. A warranty is a contract with the company that built the home, and Dream Finders assumed no obligation for Christopher Alan’s homes. The year built on the county record card tells you which is which.

What does a Creekside Run home cost?

The median of 14 recorded closings in the twelve months to 31 August 2026 is $465,000, ranging from $302,000 to $809,600. Dream Finders’ base prices run from $308,990 to $642,990.

Did prices rise here?

The median rose 5.8 percent while the town’s fell 5.8 percent, but it rose because bigger homes sold: the median home sold grew 30 percent, from 1,716 to 2,239 square feet. Per square foot the rise is 8.4 percent, on seven of the fourteen sales.

Why do only half the sales have square footage?

Because Florida assesses on 1 January and seven of the fourteen closed on parcels the roll still carries as vacant land. The houses exist; the roll has not caught up. It clears with the 2027 roll.

Is Creekside Run in a flood zone?

Mostly not. 256 of 317 parcels are entirely Zone X and 99.1 percent of the site by area is Zone X. Sixty-one parcels touch Zone AE, all on one arc of Cottontail Circle, fifteen of them built.

So do I need flood insurance?

It depends on the parcel, and specifically on where the structure sits. On a financed purchase where the building is inside the hazard area, federal law makes it mandatory. On the 256 Zone X parcels a federally backed lender does not require it. Get the determination for the specific address in writing.

Can a flood zone be changed?

Sometimes. A Letter of Map Amendment removes a structure from the hazard area when a survey shows the ground is higher than the map. At least three have already been issued on named Creekside Run lots. Ask whether one exists before you buy on the Zone AE arc.

Does Creekside Run have its own pool?

Yes, and it is on the county roll rather than only in marketing: a 2.01-acre tract with a 1,446 square foot pool and a 342 square foot cabana, both built 2024, at 44225 Creekside Run Lane. A tot lot is reported but the county has no code for a playground, so this page reports it rather than verifies it.

Is Creekside Run gated?

Local reporting describes it as gated and the street is a private roadway owned by the association, which is the structural precondition. This page reports the gate as corroborated rather than verified from the plat; confirm it on site.

Is it age restricted?

No. It is an all-ages neighborhood and 74.3 percent of occupied homes are homesteaded, which indicates owner-occupiers.

How are the homes built?

Measured across all 70: 100 percent masonry stucco on block with composition shingle roofing on a slab, 100 percent all-electric for heating and cooling, 95.7 percent with high impact glass, and 88.6 percent single storey. Fifteen have pools.

What are the annual costs?

The knowable part is $4,303.84: district debt service $1,404.18, operations $648.88, solid waste $340.58, county fire $278.20 and the master association $1,632.00. Property taxes, insurance, separately metered irrigation and the neighborhood association fee sit on top.

What is the HOA fee?

Not published anywhere. No claim of lien has ever been recorded at Creekside Run, which is the usual public source. Call RealManage on 1-866-473-2573 and ask for the amount with its period stated.

Is irrigation included?

No, not since February 2024. A recorded amendment moved irrigation onto owners, metered every lot separately and imposed a watering timetable keyed to the last digit of the house number. It is your utility bill.

Is the internet included?

Yes. One gigabit symmetrical fibre is bulk-contracted, at $135 of the $408 quarterly master assessment, about $540 a year. No household can opt out.

Can I rent out my home?

Yes, on a six-month minimum, with association approval of every lease in its sole discretion, and no room rentals. Six months is three times the town-wide floor, because this neighborhood’s declaration reserves the right to be stricter.

Can I do short-term rental?

No. And the clause that forecloses it is not the term minimum: the town Charter forbids advertising a home for overnight or transient lodging on the open internet.

How many pets can I have?

The master rule of three dogs and three cats applies, plus caged birds and common household pets. No neighborhood rules instrument has been recorded, so a future board could add weight or breed limits.

Where can I park a boat or a work truck?

In the garage. There is no boat or recreational vehicle storage tract, and at town level a pickup with a company decal larger than one square foot counts as a commercial vehicle and must be garaged.

What happens if the architectural committee never answers?

It depends which one. Silence at the neighborhood committee is a deemed disapproval; silence at the master reviewer is a deemed approval. The neighborhood stage comes first, so the unfavourable rule is the one that bites.

Can I install solar panels?

Yes. Florida Statute 163.04 prevents a covenant from prohibiting solar collectors, and the master charges no fee for a solar application. Placement can be directed only where it does not impair the collector’s effective operation.

Who controls the homeowners association?

The Declarant, and the declarant is still Christopher Alan’s entity, not the builder selling homes today. The instrument bringing Dream Finders in is a Designation of Builder that expressly assumes no declarant obligations.

When will the association turn over?

Not soon. Turnover at 90 percent needs 262 of 291 homesites conveyed; 77 are, which is 26.5 percent.

Are there funded reserves?

The declaration states reserves are unfunded. That matters here because the association owns a 13.78-acre private street and a 2024-built pool, both with replacement horizons measured in decades.

How aggressive are the fines?

$100 per day with no aggregate ceiling, where Florida’s default caps the aggregate at $1,000. The statutory protections survive: fourteen days’ notice and a hearing before an independent three-member committee that can refuse the fine.

What will I pay at closing?

A Start-Up Contribution to the Declarant whose amount the declaration does not state, or $1,000 to the association on a resale, plus $540 of master working capital and two estoppel certificates.

Where do children go to school?

Zoned to East Elementary, Punta Gorda Middle and Charlotte High, all near Punta Gorda. Charlotte High is currently over capacity and marked closed in every grade. The charter school is 2.61 miles away and runs a lottery with priority tiers.

Are there alligators?

Yes, in the neighborhood’s stormwater lakes. Do not feed them and do not let a dog drink or swim at the water’s edge. Nuisance alligator hotline, (866) 392-4286.

How bad is the commute?

Free-flow, downtown Fort Myers is 29.8 minutes and the airport 38.1, and the nearest interstate access is 11.95 miles, in Lee County. Residents report the airport at up to an hour and a half at 9 am. Everything runs through State Road 31.

Has anyone resold here?

One owner. Bought at $637,000, sold 25.6 months later for a $13,000 gain. It is the first winning resale this program has recorded at Babcock Ranch, and it is one sale.

Is it a good investment?

This page will not answer that. What it can tell you is that 214 homesites remain, so you would be competing with an active builder if you sold soon; that most of the neighborhood is outside the flood zone and some of it is not; and that the association fee is still unknown. Take those to your own numbers.

Other Babcock Ranch Neighborhoods

We have built the same depth of research on every Babcock Ranch neighborhood with a measurable market, using one dataset and one definition: qualified arm’s-length improved deeds recorded with Charlotte County in the twelve months to 31 August 2026.

• Waterview Landing at Babcock Ranch. Toll Brothers, 102 lakefront homesites, 20 closings at $545,000, 97 percent finished with a recorded dock framework.

• Regency at Babcock Ranch. Toll Brothers, gated and 55 and over, 67 closings at $510,000.

• Verde at Babcock Ranch. Pulte, 62 closings at $449,150.

• Northridge at Babcock Ranch. Pulte, 293 homesites, 34 closings at $447,100 and 85 percent built out.

• Tucker’s Cove at Babcock Ranch. 235 closings at $380,000, the town’s highest-volume market.

• Crescent Lakes at Babcock Ranch. Meritage, 78 closings at $360,600.

• Sabal Glen at Midtown at Babcock Ranch. Lennar, 19 closings at $338,300, the only neighborhood below the county median and the only one in Zone AE.

• Palmetto Landing at Babcock Ranch. D.R. Horton, 124 closings at $294,500, the town’s entry price.

• Webb’s Reserve at Babcock Ranch. The largest market in town at 232 closings, single family $630,000 and condominium $225,000.

Town-wide, Babcock Ranch recorded roughly 1,157 qualified closings at a $377,000 median, with volume down 13.5 percent and the median down 5.8 percent year on year. Creekside Run is the only one of these that changed builders mid-build, and the only one where a single street carries two different flood answers. Both are measurements, and both are on this page with their sources.

Talk to the Creekside Run Experts

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar built this page the way we work every purchase and every listing: from the recorded deed, the recorded plat, the 101-page declaration and its amendment, all 317 county record cards and the district’s own budget, rather than from a summary. We are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, and the reason that matters here is that Creekside Run has two builders, two flood answers and two architectural reviewers with opposite rules. Averages do not describe it.

What we will actually do for you here

If you are buying, we will tell you which builder built the house and get you the warranty document, get the flood determination for the specific parcel before your financing contingency expires, check whether a Letter of Map Amendment already exists on a Zone AE lot, get the association fee in writing with its period, and read you the four clauses in the declaration that cost money. If you are selling, we will price your home on builder, size and flood zone rather than on a neighborhood average, and hand you the net sheet with the enhancement fee and both estoppels already in it. Call Jesse McGreevy direct at (239) 898-6072.

★★★★★ “Marc was everything we needed for our house-hunting journey in Southwest Florida.” Laura Matheson, verified Google review

★★★★★ “Marc's attention to detail and deep understanding of the Southwest Florida market gave us so much confidence.” Katie Whalen Polewski, verified Google review

★★★★★ “He met us within 20 minutes to see it and we loved it. We worked with him on the offer and the transaction was seamless!” Marko Zegarac, verified Google review

★★★★★ “We have used his services for 5 transactions and every one has gone smoothly. He is a fantastic communicator, offers great advice and is always available.” Michael Kaprove, verified Google review

Being Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 is not by itself the reason to hire us on this street. The reason is that we found the builder handover in the county record and used it to explain a rising median, read all 317 record cards to count the flood zones one at a time, found the recorded instrument showing the declarant rights never transferred, found the irrigation amendment that a name search will not return, and published the eighteen things we could not verify with the phone number for each. Nobody else selling in Creekside Run has done that.

Ready to Buy or Sell in Creekside Run?

Tell us which home, or which question, and we will start with the record rather than an opinion. Contact McGreevy and Comisar to talk it through, or if you own here and want a valuation that accounts for which builder built your house and which flood zone it sits in, request a valuation. Call Jesse McGreevy at (239) 898-6072 or Marc Comisar at (239) 287-5873. We are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 and we will show you our work either way.

Data updated: September 2026. Charlotte County deed file dated 6 September 2026; parcel roll dated 7 September 2026 with all 317 record cards read individually; plat Book 26 Pages 12A to 12P and declaration instrument 3312719 with First Amendment instrument 3369168 read from Clerk document images; flood status measured against the federal National Flood Hazard Layer under FIRM 12015C0500G as revised by LOMR 24-04-2314P effective 4 November 2025; road distances routed 9 September 2026 from a computed centroid. Where a fact could not be sourced, this page publishes it as an open question with the authority and the phone number rather than filling the gap. McGreevy and Comisar, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, Domain Realty, Jesse McGreevy (239) 898-6072.