Gated Communities

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by lookout123

if it is gated, the neighborhood has to pay for initial construction, but i believe they are maintained with tax dollars.

The developer pays for the initial construction then deeds it over to the community association who is then responsible for it. It remains private property throughout and no tax dollars are ever used on it.

[lookout123]

ok, i just know that in my old neighborhood which was gated that the city crews did the maintenance.

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by Beestie

The developer pays for the initial construction then deeds it over to the community association who is then responsible for it. It remains private property throughout and no tax dollars are ever used on it.

Beestie is correct. The object of the game is for the developer to skimp and skip as many things as possible to create enough semblance of a street and utilites so that he can dump the whole thing on the homeowners association and run. My gated community got left with more than $40,000 worth of debts for work never paid for and mostly not inspected. What was a beautiful pond behind my house when they were selling it to me is now a stagnant ditch with all the fish and plants dead because the complex manager knows nothing about maintaining landscaping and the builder did not line the bottom. The City or County will never be obliged to pay for ANY repairs or improvements to anything behind our gates, unless we are taken over by their Health Department because of a fortuitous outbreak of Bubonic Plague.