The HOA Board of Directors understands this perspective, so we would like to explain why this issue matters to everyone in our community.
As owners of property within the Northpointe Crossing HOA, all of us share the expenses of this community, its repairs, and management. This includes all obligations of the common areas, such as the north ravine. The City of Anna does not hold responsibility to maintain any portion of the ravine. Our ownership of this ravine means that everyone in the community shares the cost of repairs and/ or potential lawsuits as a result of the HOA’s failure to maintain its common areas. Potential lawsuits can arise not only from owners directly affected by the ravine but also from the City of Anna via the Code Compliance Department.
If the north ravine is not fixed, the City of Anna can seek authorization to perform maintenance on the ravine and then seek reimbursement from the HOA for that work. Typically repairs made by an outside party, like the City of Anna, will not be a long-term solution based effort but likely a temporary fix that will need repeating with some frequency. The repetition of those efforts can create a significant increase in cost over time. Additionally, residents directly affected by this ravine can sue the HOA for losses suffered by the lack of maintenance and repairs. The HOA will likely suffer additional legal costs in addition to paying for repairs of private property. Those repairs to private property will not fix the root cause of the ravine but rather just isolated portions of private property along the ravine. This means those repair efforts are not solution based but rather a temporary fix for the private owners property.
Finally, the lack of common area maintenance affects our home values and the ability to sell a home if the community is in disrepair.