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Residents raise HOA funding and density concerns in Rockwall open forum
Summary
During open forum at the Jan. 21 City Council meeting, residents described financial strain on homeowners associations after developers deed common areas and urged changes to the Unified Development Code; others criticized how gross-density calculations allow tightly packed subdivisions.
At the Jan. 21 Rockwall City Council meeting, multiple residents used the open forum to urge the city to examine developer practices and zoning calculations that they say leave homeowners associations (HOAs) responsible for costly infrastructure and produce higher-density developments that lack neighborhood character.
Bob Wacker described long-term financial strain in his Stone Creek HOA, saying the developer deeded common areas to the association before sufficient assessments were collected. Wacker said early years had low assessment revenue while landscape, irrigation, pool and amenity-center costs accumulated, producing a cumulative deficit he estimated at about $208,000 in the first six years. He described a…
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