The 60-Second Overview
By 2016, Nocatee had proven that buyers would pay for walkability, Addison Park, Lakeside, and Siena had filled in around the Town Center, and The PARC Group answered with its most urban village yet: Daniel Park, 106 single-family homesites on 40-foot lots, built entirely by David Weekley Homes, close enough that the Publix run, the restaurant row, and the Splash Water Park are a walk of a few blocks, not a drive.
The 40-foot lot is the thesis. Where most of Nocatee sells square footage and yard, Daniel Park sells position and time: compact homesites, sidewalk-first streets, and home designs that ran roughly 1,300 to 3,000 square feet across Weekley's Discovery and Designer series (third-party figures). One builder means one spec language across the whole loop, which is rarer and more valuable at resale than it sounds.
Today the village trades as resale, and thinly: third-party data showed just three active listings averaging about $732,600, from $669,000 to $829,000 (June 2025, dated). That is small-lot product out-pricing much of the masterplan per door, the walkability premium, in numbers.
Daniel Park is what happens when a masterplan stops apologizing for small lots and starts charging for the walk instead.
Fees and the CDD
Two recurring lines define the carrying cost. First, the Daniel Park homeowners association: third-party sources have cited dues around $550 a year, a light touch by Nocatee standards, but confirm the current amount and exactly what it covers with the association before you offer. Second, the Nocatee (Tolomato) CDD assessment on the property-tax bill: third-party sources have cited roughly $1,796 a year for Daniel Park lots, on the lower end of the Nocatee range, consistent with the compact lot format, but the figure varies by parcel and bond position, so verify the specific tax bill.
The CDD is the financing engine behind the water parks, the Greenway, and the events calendar, and it is not optional. Because the village dates to 2016 and after, individual parcels can sit at different points in their amortization; we pull the parcel-level figure on every candidate, because two similar Daniel Park homes should never be compared without it.
The 40-Foot Format
Daniel Park's defining number is lot width: 40 feet, the tightest single-family format in Nocatee. That single decision cascades through everything, smaller yards, closer neighbors, two-story plans that live up rather than out, and a streetscape that feels more like an urban block than a Florida subdivision. The PARC Group called it an urban lifestyle village when it launched in 2016, and the label was accurate.
The honest accounting cuts both ways. What you give up: room for a pool on most lots, backyard privacy by distance, and the play-football-in-the-yard suburban template. What you get: a yard that takes minutes instead of weekends, lower irrigation and landscaping bills, a lower CDD tier than the big-lot villages (verify per parcel), and a price of admission to the walkable core that detached buyers otherwise cannot reach.
The single-builder factor compounds it. Every home is David Weekley, Discovery series at the attainable end, Designer series above it, so the village reads as one coherent piece, and comps actually compare: same builder, same era, same spec logic. In multi-builder villages, pricing across builders is half the work; here, the work is condition and position.
The Walkability Premium
Nocatee is a famously amenitized masterplan, but most of it drives to the Town Center. Daniel Park walks: the Publix-anchored shopping center, the restaurants, healthcare, the farmers market, and the Splash Water Park sit a few blocks away, with the Greenway and the golf-cart network connecting everything else. It joined Addison Park, Lakeside, and Siena as the fourth single-family village inside that geography, and it is the most compact of the set.
Walkable single-family inside a car-first masterplan is a finite asset: the land beside the Town Center is built, and the newer villages keep rising farther out. Daniel Park owns the smallest, densest slice of that geography, which is the quiet engine under its resale pricing, a tiny active set asking an average around $733,000 (third-party, June 2025, dated) for homes on the masterplan's smallest lots. The market is paying for the address, and saying so out loud.
Schools: Pattern and the Caveat
Daniel Park sits in the St. Johns County district, the school system that anchors most Nocatee buying decisions. The district's 2026-27 zoning framework assigns the Town Center area villages, Daniel Park included, to Pine Island Academy (K-8) feeding Allen D. Nease High School. The moving part: a new K-8 inside Nocatee opens for the 2026-27 year to relieve the existing academies, and relief schools redraw lines. That is exactly why we give the same advice everywhere in Nocatee: verify the address-level assignment with the district directly before you write an offer that depends on it, boundaries have been redrawn before and will be again as the masterplan grows.
What Living Here Is Actually Like
The daily rhythm is the walk: coffee at Town Center, the Greenway loop, errands without the car, evenings when the restaurant row is the kitchen of last resort a few blocks away. The compact loop of 106 homes socializes the way small blocks do, neighbors actually know each other, and the low-maintenance lots mean weekends belong to the water park and the trails, not the mower.
The small-lot reality
Forty feet of width means the neighbor is close and the yard is modest; fences and landscaping do the privacy work. Most owners call the trade obvious, the yard they gave up is the Saturday they got back, but buyers who need space around the house should shop other villages.
The Town Center sound
Living near the action means hearing some of it: event nights, summer Splash Park energy, restaurant evenings. Most owners call it the point; buyers who want silence should weigh interior positions, or a quieter village.
The golf-cart life
Daniel Park sits in the heart of Nocatee's cart culture: paths connect the village to Town Center, the parks, and the schools. Charging and parking are practical questions worth asking per house, garages here are not oversized.
Thin-inventory shopping
A 106-home village can go weeks with zero or one listing. Serious buyers set the search up in advance and move within days when the right house lists; the good ones do not reach the second weekend.
Five Costly Mistakes Daniel Park Buyers Make
Small-lot walkable resales generate their own predictable errors. The five we see:
Comping against drive-to Nocatee
A Daniel Park house and a same-size house three miles from Town Center are different products. Comping across the masterplan without pricing the walk produces confident, wrong numbers, in both directions.
Pricing the lot like a normal lot
Per-square-foot math built on 60- and 70-foot-lot comps misreads this village. The 40-foot format trades land for position; use Daniel Park's own closings and the Town Center siblings as the comp set.
Skipping the per-parcel fee read
Third-party sources cite about $550 HOA and roughly $1,796 CDD per year, but both move and the CDD varies by parcel. Never compare two homes without normalizing the verified numbers.
Buying the walk, ignoring the systems
The earliest homes date to 2016, which puts original HVAC systems and water heaters near replacement windows. Date the big items and get the four-point and wind-mitigation inspections early; insurance pricing depends on them.
Waiting for more inventory
There is no builder releasing next month. In a 106-home village, the house you like is the inventory; hesitation here is how buyers spend a year not buying.
Positions and Premiums
When every lot is 40 feet, position is everything
In most villages the premium lives in lot size or the backyard view; in Daniel Park the lots are uniform by design, so value concentrates in position on the loop, plan size, and condition. The shortest walks to Town Center, the spots facing green space rather than another rear fence, and the largest Designer-series plans carry the premiums.
Because one builder built everything, the market reads those premiums cleanly, there is no builder-quality noise to hide behind, which rewards buyers who know the loop house by house.
The Daniel Park Buyer Checklist
- Pull the parcel-level CDD figure and the current Daniel Park HOA dues and documents.
- Date the big systems: roof, HVAC, water heater, with the four-point and wind-mitigation inspections early.
- Walk the actual walk: time the route to Town Center and the Splash Park from the specific address.
- Accept the lot honestly: 40 feet wide is the format; price any exception accordingly.
- Read the HOA documents on leasing, parking, and exterior changes before planning anything.
- Verify the school assignment at the address level with the St. Johns County district, especially with a new K-8 opening for 2026-27.
- Comp inside the Town Center core first, Daniel Park, Lakeside, Addison Park, never against big-lot Nocatee unadjusted.
- Set the search before the listing: a 106-home village rewards the prepared buyer.
Daniel Park is the purest expression of the Nocatee trade: give up the yard, get the address. One hundred six homes, one builder, a few blocks from the Town Center, and a resale market that keeps proving buyers will pay for exactly that. The people who thrive here did the honest math on what they actually use, the Splash Park, the restaurants, the trails, and what they were maintaining out of habit.
Bring us in before you tour and we will bring the closed comps, the parcel-level fee picture, and the inspection scope built for a 2016-era home. In a village that lists a handful of homes a year, that preparation is the entire edge.
Daniel Park vs. the Nocatee Set
The realistic cross-shop for a Daniel Park buyer:
| Option | Format | The honest one-liner |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeside at Town Center | Single-family, walkable | The Key West sibling: three builders, somewhat larger lots, same walk. |
| Addison Park | Original TC village | The first Town Center village; the established neighbor a block over. |
| West End at Town Center | TH + villas, walkable | The attached low-maintenance version of the same address. |
| Willowcove | Established single-family | Bigger lots and preserve edges, a short cart ride from Town Center. |
| Austin Park | Original village | More square footage and yard per dollar on the western edge; the walk becomes a drive. |
Daniel Park's lane is precise: the smallest lots, the tightest village, and the most urban format at the masterplan's most walkable address, all from one builder. Bigger yards exist, cheaper exists, attached exists, but this exact combination is 106 homes and finite.
The Honest Pros and Cons
Pros
- Walking distance to Town Center and the Splash Water Park
- Single-builder David Weekley consistency, clean comps
- Low-maintenance 40-foot lots: minutes of yard, not weekends
- Tight 106-home loop with a genuinely social streetscape
- Full Nocatee amenity access with the deed
- Finite walkable format: the structural resale case
Cons
- CDD plus HOA dues in the carrying cost
- Small lots: close neighbors, modest yards, no pool room on most
- Walkability carries a real premium per door
- Earliest homes near the decade mark; systems aging
- Town Center energy reaches the nearest positions
- Thin inventory forces fast decisions
Our Daniel Park Buyer Playbook
How we run a Daniel Park purchase, in order:
- Set the search before the listing: in a 106-home village, preparation beats reaction.
- Build the all-in monthly first: verified parcel CDD, current HOA dues, and insurance on the actual roof age.
- Underwrite the era: 2016-onward systems, with the four-point and wind-mitigation early.
- Pick position over staging: the walk and the loop position outlive every kitchen.
- Comp inside the Town Center core, then sanity-check against the drive-to alternatives, premium acknowledged.
Questions We Ask Before You Sign
Six answers we get in writing on every Daniel Park contract:
- What is the parcel's current CDD assessment, and where does it sit in the bond schedule?
- What are the current Daniel Park HOA dues, and what do the documents say about leasing, parking, and exterior changes?
- How old are the roof, HVAC, and water heater, and what do the four-point and wind-mitigation reports show?
- What did the last three Daniel Park closings actually sell for, and how does this position compare?
- What is the current school assignment for this exact address, given the 2026-27 rezoning?
- What is behind the fence, another rear yard, a path, or one of the loop's rare better exposures?
Is Daniel Park Not For You?
The honest cut, both directions:
Consider elsewhere if you want
- A big private yard, a pool, or a preserve view
- New construction and a builder warranty
- The lowest Nocatee entry price
- A gated community
- Distance from Town Center bustle
- Deep inventory to shop at leisure
Daniel Park fits if you want
- Town Center and the Splash Park on foot
- A detached house at the walkable core without the yard work
- Single-builder consistency and clean comps
- A tight, social 106-home loop in a famous masterplan
- Full Nocatee amenity access with the deed
- A finite urban format with a structural resale case