Sugarhill's Colors History
When the developer of Sugarhill initiated our first covenants in the late 1970's it was designed with the natural colors of the Savannas Preserve. Our subdivision was literally built into that Preserve. This is one of the unique characteristics that sets the entire community apart from most of South Florida. It is very difficult to find any of our neighbors that don't understand and appreciate what attracted all of us to Sugarhill. When you walk through our neighborhood you're not overwhelmed by the man-made or the "condo-cut" look because it blends so seamlessly with the surroundings. It's like taking a walk in a Florida Hammock. The nature and beauty of this neighborhood needs to be carefully preserved. Colors have a lot to do with that. The covenants have three color ranges, Gray, Green, and Brown. The spectrums contained in each color option was limited to avoid the extremes on both ends of the spectrums.
Covenants Can Cause Confusion
This link will open the covenant as it was written in a revision in 2004. You can always return to this page by using your back button. ⬅︎ This document is also a good example of how we will digitize the covenants to a more readable format as time goes by.
As I'm sure you can tell the document is easily confusing. Just the first paragraph leaves the covenant open to "an understanding within the community of the colors that are acceptable." So with the vagaries we have decided to use the range extremes of the colors and add suggestion colors that fall in the three spectrums. The suggested colors are just colors that fall into the three spectrums and not requirements. The other thing we have done is convert all the colors to Sherwin Williams colors. When the covenant was written Benjamin Moore was the closest paint dedicated store, now Sherwin Williams is the closest. As of September 2019 Benjamin Moore (Regal Paint Center) has opened a new store on US 1 South of Walmart at Lennard Road (10981 South US1, Port St. Lucie, FL 34952). We are not endorsing any manufacturer of paint. This is the process to amend the documents. Written covenants are legally binding.
As I'm sure you can tell the document is easily confusing. Just the first paragraph leaves the covenant open to "an understanding within the community of the colors that are acceptable." So with the vagaries we have decided to use the range extremes of the colors and add suggestion colors that fall in the three spectrums. The suggested colors are just colors that fall into the three spectrums and not requirements. The other thing we have done is convert all the colors to Sherwin Williams colors. When the covenant was written Benjamin Moore was the closest paint dedicated store, now Sherwin Williams is the closest. As of September 2019 Benjamin Moore (Regal Paint Center) has opened a new store on US 1 South of Walmart at Lennard Road (10981 South US1, Port St. Lucie, FL 34952). We are not endorsing any manufacturer of paint. This is the process to amend the documents. Written covenants are legally binding.
You Must Get Approval Before You Paint
You will need approval before you paint! Don't buy paint that hasn't been approved for your project, it may be rejected. Don't have one company's paint that was approved, mixed to match by another company without approval because the match is often not close to the original. Also, please remember, it takes a complicated process to change a covenant and written covenants are legally binding weather you or we like it or not.
