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Residents urge city help for neglected retention ponds as homeowners associations dissolve
Summary
Neighbors told the Board of Public Works that retention ponds in the Aber Meadows area are overgrown, unsafe and maintained poorly after their homeowners association dissolved; staff described options including public-private partnership and legal remedies.
Residents of a subdivision near Stop 18 told the Board of Public Works on April 7 that several retention ponds are overgrown, contain fallen trees and trash, and pose safety risks.
“People keep coming into our backyards to fish. During the winter there were six people ice fishing back there. If somebody falls in, somebody could get killed,” a resident said during public comment.
The neighborhood is one of several older subdivisions with inactive or dissolved homeowners…
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