Opinion ID: 2156600
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: South and West Units

Text: With respect to the South and West Units, the master declaration referred to these parcels as Master Units. It further included as an exhibit a metes and bounds description of the parcels in question. Only with respect to the West Unit did the master declaration go into more detail about future development plans. The declarant reserved certain development rights with respect to this parcel, stating in the master declaration that not more than 8 units would be created therein. However, no structural components were located on either of the two parcels in 1988 that met the requirements for substantial completion that the Act cites as a prerequisite for recording a declaration of condominium. [4] Therefore, with respect to the South and West Units, the declarant failed to meet the conditions necessary to create units in the master declaration. Furthermore, at no time before the development rights expired on December 31, 1994, did IDC Properties or its predecessors attempt to exercise these rights with respect to the West Unit, nor did the declarant reserve any development rights in the South Unit. Therefore, because the South and West Units never were validly created units within the meaning of the Act, they were, and remain, common elements.