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Walton County adopts ordinance allowing special tax districts to maintain neglected detention ponds
Summary
Commissioners approved an amendment to the land development ordinance creating a mechanism to form special tax districts to maintain stormwater detention ponds where homeowners associations are inactive.
Walton County approved an amendment to its land development ordinance allowing the county to create special tax districts to fund maintenance of required stormwater detention ponds in subdivisions where homeowners associations are inactive or defunct.
County manager John Ward explained staff found many required detention ponds were not being maintained because the subdivision homeowners associations were no longer active. The ordinance creates a process that would require…
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