Orange County moves toward receivership for TimberScan on the Lake after years of blight and safety concerns

Orange County officials told the board of county commissioners on Jan. 28 that TimberScan on the Lake — a roughly 63-acre condominium community east of John Young Parkway — has deteriorated into a public-safety hazard and that staff plans to ask a court to terminate the condominium associations and seek appointment of a receiver to wind up affairs and arrange a sale.

The request follows more than a decade of code enforcement, repeated demolitions of unsafe buildings and growing county ownership of tax-deeded condo units. Jason Reynolds, manager of the county’s neighborhood services division, told the commission that 41 of 49 condominium buildings have already been demolished; 56 condo units remain standing and the county holds deed to 123 units, most of which already were demolished.

County attorney staff said state condominium law (chapter 718, Florida Statutes) and receivership provisions provide a pathway for terminating the associations and for a court-appointed receiver to manage a partition sale of the property. Assistant county…