Caracol Creek/Heights Community

Architectural Control Approval

Who Needs Architectural Control Approval?

WHO NEEDS ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL APPROVAL?


If you make any “improvement” to your property, you need to obtain approval of the plans and specifications for such improvements from the Architectural Control Committee (ACC). When most of us think of “improvements”, we think in terms of a deck, patio cover, storage building, or room addition. However, flower beds, trees or shrubs, and brick borders are also considered improvements.

Many of you have received a letter requesting that you submit plans and specifications for approval by the ACC, and many of you have responded. However, there are still several homeowners who have not!

The ACC is committed to upholding the general intent of the Covenants as well as the rights of homeowners to express their individual tastes. The primary concerns of the ACC are utility easements, drainage flow, and harmony of design. However, harmony of design does not mean that the ACC prefers Japanese Boxwoods over Indian Hawthorns; what it does mean is that if you use brick to create a flower bed, it should either match, or compliment, the brick on your home, and that you probably won’t get approval to paint your front door florescent orange!

We have all seen subdivisions that deteriorated over time because Covenants were not adhered to by the homeowners. This deterioration does not occur overnight, but over years. The precedents set now is what the community will have to live with in the future!. In other words, if the requirement to have improvements approved by the ACC is not enforced consistently and equally in the community, when an issue arises which violates the Covenants, and the Association wants to do something about it, the Association could be found to have waived its right of enforcement!!

If you are a homeowner who has made improvements and not obtained ACC approval, please take a few minutes to prepare and submit a request to the ACC as soon as possible. Otherwise, you can expect the Association to take the steps necessary to enforce the Covenants for the protection of the property values in the community. Covenant enforcement will only cost all the homeowners in the community, as everyone is a member of the Association!

Mike Reyes
mike.reyes@gmail.com

ACC Chairman