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There are community pools available to some neighborhoods that do not have HOA's. Yes, you have to share them with other people, but you do when you live in an HOA, too.
So Pool does not require HOA.
The pool, marina, tennis, and golf club where I live are all 'ala carte' in terms of membership- not HOA supported; you just pay if you want a membership at any of them, and you don't have to live in the development to have a membership.
We've got a special tax district instead of a HOA to handle some landscaping on the main streets through town and act as unofficial liason to FDOT, but they do not do covenant enforcement and refer building code issues to the county.
Interesting, I've never seen a "community pool" (eg. exclusive use to just that subdivision) that wasn't run by a HOA. Both beachmouse & THL mentioned use by other people. If people outside of the subdivision have access, then it is no longer a "community pool" in my opinion. Here, we call those "City Pools" or "Public Pools" and you either get a membership or pay per diem. Guess that comes down to different terminology in different areas.
And Mike, my first post was relevant, I asked similar questions, which the OP has not been back to answer. In the meantime, we are keeping the thread bumped for him. Yeah, that's what we are doing.
The pools, marinas, and tennis centers out here were originally built by the developer to convince people that there was a reason to move to what was BFE at the time and then sold off to others who run those amenities as private businesses (that original developer does still own the golf course).
Community pool is still the best way to describe it since I'd guess 90% of the members other than the swim team kids live within the boundaries of the development.
Lacerta, it depends on what you consider to be a "community", I guess. It appears that you consider it to be a pool exclusively for the use of homeowners in a particular subdivision, with no "riff raff" from other subdivisions allowed in.
I've always considered a "community pool" to be any pool that was for the use of the paying general public (whether restricted to the general public living in one subdivision or not and whether the paying was by fee or season card or the fee was included in the HOA fees), rather than a "private pool" that belongs to one house and can only be used by that house's inhabitants and their invited guests.
Does anyone have any information, good or bad, about the Community Association Institute? Is it advantage or not to join?
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