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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not get rid of it. You will need to sue your neighbors to get them to pay for road maintenance if there is no HOA. it Will destroy your neighborhood. If they cared about maintaining the appearance of their Home they wouldn't be against the HOA. The HOA is also your only protection from simplex destroying the neighborhood. You want to protect yourself from the disaster of Arlington zoning. [/quote]

Possibly dumb question - why does the HOA maintain the road and not the county? 
Signed, 
Maryland resident[/quote]

9:43 here again. It doesn't, necessarily. It all depends on what is in the covenant documents, the original zoning approval and what the developer planned for the HOA to do. Some HOAs only have the authority to govern neighborhood aesthetics and external home/yard maintenance. Some are formed with the responsibility to handle contracts for trash, snowplowing or other services for the entire neighborhood (rather than each homeowner hiring those services themselves, and all the additional traffic that might entail in a development of dozens or hundreds of houses). In other cases, the developer promises that the HOA will maintain all of the roads within a development by assessing the HOA members, so the local government doesn't have to cover any related costs except maintenance of water/sewer service (if applicable)--in this case, as was mentioned, it's usually a sweetener to a city or county to approve the development because they won't have to deal with those maintenance/infrastructure costs.

If you dissolve an HOA that only has the power to dictate your external paint color or how soon you have to move your trash cans back in after trash day, that's probably not a huge deal. It's a total other thing to dissolve an HOA that has legal responsibility for the roads, with no legal, confirmed arrangement of who will do it going forward. [/quote]

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