Bradenton, FL

University Park

The residential side of the same gated 1,000-acre community as University Park Country Club, north of University Parkway and a mile from University Town Center. Thirty-two neighborhoods named for English places hold about 1,183 homes; the county roll counts 1,199 houses across 39 plats, built mostly between 1993 and 2007, median around 2,706 square feet, 77% with a private pool and 28% fronting the golf course. Club membership, covering the 27-hole Ron Garl course, 11 lighted Har-Tru courts, croquet, pickleball and fitness, is optional for homeowners. No CDD.

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Home Types

Single-family

Amenity Level

High

HOA (Yearly) Est.

$5,368 - $9,264

CDD (Yearly) Est.

None

Flood Zone

Fee estimates may vary by lot size and sub-association. View all community fees →

Community size

~118,332

homes, approximately

community record

recorded residential lots

Manatee County property appraiser roll, read October 2026

Amenities & lifestyle

Optional country club membership
27 holes of Ron Garl golf
11 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts
Croquet and pickleball
Fitness center
Gated, 1,000 acres
One mile from University Town Center

Michael’s Take

Same 39 county plats as the University Park Country Club page. One physical community with two pages on this site; consolidate onto whichever URL holds the impressions. Carries no CDD, but IS inside the University Park Recreation District, a Chapter 418 district that owns the country club: its Series 2019 bond assessment of roughly $906 to $2,858 a year lands on the November 2026 Manatee County tax bill. See the University Park Country Club note.

How University Park compares

From the county records

Not yet

The roll records no finished homes here yet, across 39 platted parcels. There is no denominator to take a homestead share from, so none is shown.

Arm’s-length sales recorded with Manatee County, read October 2026. Quitclaims, foreclosures, family transfers and pre-construction sales are excluded. Homestead requires the property to be a permanent residence, so the share carrying one is reported here as a share of matched residential units rather than as a count of who lives here. Homestead is a tax filing, not an occupancy count. A rented home can house full-time residents and will never carry the exemption, and an owner who lives here but never filed does not appear in it either. Read it as what share of matched residential units claim the exemption, not as who lives here.

At an estimated $7,316 a year in combined HOA and CDD, University Park sits about 310% above the Bradenton median of $1,783, ranking 19 of the 23 Bradenton communities whose fees this site tracks. There is no CDD assessment here, which is what keeps that figure down.

Estimates from the same dataset behind the fee pages and the True Cost Index. Fees vary by lot size and sub-association, and change with each budget.

Golf here is University Park Country Club, a semi private club. Membership structure and any fees are on its page.

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Governing Documents

HOA & community documents for University Park

6 documents published by the association, plus district records, and linked to the page each one lives on. Nothing is copied here, so you read whatever they publish today.

University Park Community Association, Inc.

Master association

Managed by Park Boulevard Management.

Matched to University Park because: The association’s own website names University Park, states that it governs 1,202 single family lots across thirty-two neighborhoods, and publishes its recorded Amended and Restated Declaration, which carries the association’s full legal name and a Manatee County instrument number. Its governance page also names the University Park Recreation District as the body it coordinates with, which is the same district recorded separately here.

Who to contact

Managed by: Park Boulevard Management
Contact role: Community association management

Contact pageChecked October 8, 2026

Organisational contact only: the association publishes a role mailbox and an office line for Park Boulevard Management, the management company responsible for day-to-day operations. The seven elected directors are not listed here.

Board members and officers are not listed here. They change often, and their names are on the association’s own records and in the state’s corporate filings, which is where they should be read from rather than from a page that cannot keep up.

Declaration of covenantsCurrent, per the source

Amended & Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions

Every one of the 1,202 lots in University Park. The neighborhood supplemental declarations sit on top of it and the Recreation District assesses on top of both.

Approved by the voting members on 14 August 2023 and recorded with the Manatee County Clerk of Courts on 13 September 2023, published by the association as its governing declaration.

Document date: September 13, 2023
Recorded: Inst. 202341098401
Source: Recorded with the county
Last checked: October 8, 2026

304 recorded pages including the exhibits. Amended and restated, so it REPLACES the declaration it supersedes rather than adding to it; an older copy is not the operative document. It does not contain the neighborhood supplemental declarations, which are separate instruments per neighborhood and are not published individually on the association page.

Open document

Rules & regulationsCurrent, per the source

UPCAI Community Information Booklet

The community as a whole. The association’s own summary of how it is governed and what it maintains.

Revised September 2026 and published by the association for realtors and residents.

Document date: September 1, 2026
Source: Official association
Last checked: October 8, 2026

An association summary rather than a governing instrument. Useful orientation; the recorded declaration is what actually binds a lot, and the two should not be quoted interchangeably.

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District documents

A community development or stewardship district is a unit of local government, not an association. Its assessment is billed with your property taxes rather than by the association, and its rules are public records of a different kind. Shown separately for that reason.

University Park Recreation District

Matched to University Park because: The district’s own published charter states that it was created as a recreational district under section 418.20 of the Florida Statutes, as an independent special district under Chapter 189, by Manatee County Ordinance 18-29. Its own website states it is located in Manatee County and that it owns University Park Country Club, and the University Park Community Association names the same district from the other side, as the body it coordinates with. Manatee County publishes its budget as well.

NOT a community development district, and that is the whole reason this one stayed hidden: it is a CHAPTER 418 recreational district, so neither a search for a CDD nor a read of the roll for a CDD line could ever have found it. Established on 2 August 2018 by Manatee County Ordinance 18-29 after a petition signed by more than 80% of district residents, and amended by Ordinance 23-95, which was approved by referendum on 19 March 2024. It was created to buy, own and operate University Park Country Club, its 27-hole golf course and racquet and fitness facilities, and roughly 100 acres of conservation and open space. WHAT A BUYER NEEDS TO KNOW: the district’s general fund raises nothing from assessments and never has, which is why this site correctly recorded no CDD line against the roll. Its DEBT SERVICE fund is a different matter. The FY2027 adopted debt service budget raises $1,594,068.75 in Series 2019 bond special assessments, and the district told homeowners in August 2026 that, with the bond litigation resolved, an annual assessment of roughly $906 to $2,858 depending on the property would replace the one-time irrigation assessment on their TRIM notice and appear on the 2026 Manatee County property tax bill. The district publishes a bond assessment roll so an owner can look up their own lot.

Who to contact

Managed by: University Park Recreation District
Contact role: Independent special district; board meetings are noticed under Chapter 190

Contact pageChecked October 8, 2026

No individual supervisors or managers are listed here. The board is named in the district’s own agendas and minutes, which its website publishes.

Rules & regulationsCurrent, per the source

University Park Recreation District Charter, adopted by Manatee County Ordinance 18-29, amended by Ordinance 23-95

Issued by University Park Recreation District

The district as a whole. The charter that creates it, sets its boundaries and defines its powers, including the power to levy assessments.

The charter as amended by Ordinance 23-95, approved by referendum on 19 March 2024, published by the district as current.

Source: District
Last checked: October 8, 2026

The document that settles what kind of district this is. It creates the district as a recreational district under section 418.20 of the Florida Statutes and as an independent special district under Chapter 189, NOT as a community development district under Chapter 190. That distinction is why it was invisible to every search this site had run for Bradenton before now.

Open document

Rules & regulationsStatus unconfirmed

UPRD District Boundary Map

Issued by University Park Recreation District

The land inside the district, which is what decides whether a given address is assessed.

Published by the district on its own About Us page alongside its charter and legal description.

Source: District
Last checked: October 8, 2026

Carries no revision date, so it is recorded as published rather than as current. Confirm a specific address against the district rather than against this map.

Open document

Budget & assessmentsCurrent, per the source

UPRD Adopted Debt Service Budget FY 2027

Issued by University Park Recreation District

Every assessed property in the district. The Series 2019 bond special assessments and the principal and interest they pay.

Adopted by the board for the fiscal year beginning 1 October 2026 and published by the district.

Source: District
Last checked: October 8, 2026

The single most important document on this district for a buyer, because it is the one that shows assessment revenue. The general fund budget beside it raises nothing from assessments; this fund raises $1,594,068.75.

Open document

Budget & assessmentsCurrent, per the source

UPRD Adopted General Fund Budget FY 2027

Issued by University Park Recreation District

The district as a whole. Its operating budget, funded entirely by inter-fund transfers from the debt service fund and from the country club rather than by any assessment.

Adopted by the board for the fiscal year beginning 1 October 2026 and published by the district.

Source: District
Last checked: October 8, 2026

Read together with the debt service budget, this is what reconciles the two true statements about University Park: operations raise nothing on the tax roll, and the bonds do.

Open document

The governing body is known and nothing it publishes is public. That is a gap in what has been published, not evidence that the community has no restrictions. This list records what has been found in public, not everything that governs the property. Before an offer I pull the full document set for the specific address along with the association’s budget and financials.

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University Park FAQ

What kind of homes are in University Park?+

University Park offers single-family. As single-family housing, the roof, the exterior and the insurance on the structure are yours rather than an association's, which is the main practical difference from a villa or condominium. What a specific home includes, and what the association maintains, is set out in that community's documents and is worth reading before an offer rather than after.

Is golf membership required at University Park?+

Golf is central to University Park, but living in a golf community and holding a golf membership are two different things and the distinction costs real money. The course here is University Park Country Club, which is semi private. Membership structures vary: some are required with the home, some optional, some sold separately to non-residents, and some carry a waiting list. Confirm which applies to the specific address, and the current dues, directly with the club before relying on it.

What amenities does University Park have?+

University Park offers Optional country club membership, 27 holes of Ron Garl golf, 11 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, Croquet and pickleball, Fitness center, among others. Worth separating two things that often get blurred together: amenities the HOA maintains and which every owner pays for, and club or golf facilities that may require a separate membership on top. Which category each amenity falls into determines your actual annual cost, and it is set out in the community documents rather than in any listing.

Does University Park have an HOA or CDD fee?+

University Park has an HOA fee estimated at $5,368 - $9,264 yearly, and the fee data for this community records no CDD assessment. A community development district bills through your property taxes rather than through the association, and its assessment can carry two separate components: debt service, which repays the bonds that funded roads, drainage and amenities, and an operations and maintenance charge, which does not end with the bonds. A community without a district avoids both as currently assessed. Figures are estimates, assessments are set annually, and both vary by home and phase, so confirm them for the specific address before relying on them.

What flood zone is University Park in?+

The flood zone recorded for University Park is X. Zones beginning A or V are the higher-risk categories, where a federally backed mortgage generally requires flood insurance, while zone X is lower risk and coverage is usually optional. Flood zone is assigned per property rather than per community though, and elevation can change both the requirement and the premium substantially, so get the zone and the elevation certificate for the exact address rather than relying on a community-level figure.

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