Harmony is an unincorporated

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near St. Cloud,

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, United States. It is part of the

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Kissimmee Kissimmee ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 79,226. It is a principal city of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to 2010 Census data, Harmony is home to more than 1,000 residents. Harmony is a Green-certified community, certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition. Development plans for Harmony were set in motion by 1996. The Harmony Community Development District was established by local ordinance in March 2000. Harmony developed a cooperative relationship with the University of Florida's Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in 2001. Harmony was demonstrating a real-life example of people living and working in the same community. The goal was to show that this could be done in a sustainable way while also minimizing the impact on the local ecology. The Harmony Residential Owners Association (ROA) was created on October 8, 2002. The Harmony ROA is noteworthy among home owners associations in that it established within its founding documents guidelines delineating the peaceful coexistence of humans and wild animals. Harmony was opened for occupancy in approximately 2003 and ownership was transferred to

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in 2005.

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