Turtle Cove is a private gated community with controlled and restricted access to our amenities and common HOA property.  Therefore, the city does not provide maintenance for any of the roads or sidewalks within the confines of the gate and a small area of concrete outside the neighborhood between the gate and railroad tracks. 

HOA responsibility for road maintenance is codified in the DCCR's.  However, the DCCR's do not directly address sidewalk maintenance and there is no clear mandate for the HOA to maintain them . 

Sometime around 2015 the HOA took action to address a number of unsafe sidewalk conditions and performed limited tests to determine if  "mud jacking" was a viable option for long-term maintenance of large swathes of sidewalk. The mud jacking tests were conducted along an approximate thirty foot (30 foot) stretch of sidewalk at the intersection of Channel Ridge Drive and Briar Oaks Drive. The mud jacking treatment failed within one year of the service and mud jacking was deemed not a viable solution for sidewalk restoration. 

At about the same time as these tests, our community engineer devised a specification for both road and sidewalk repair. These specifications were designed for longevity with the intent that they would last fifty years or more.  Since 2015 there have been several rounds of large scale  roads repairs and one round of repairs to a very small area of sidewalk. 

In 2022 the Board of Directors (BOD) authorized a large scale road repair project.  At the same time two small sidewalk areas deemed hazardous were also repaired. It was during this project that the lack of specific sidewalk repair authorization was discovered.  However, through  conversation with prior board members and members of the engineering committee it does seem that prior boards were aware of the issue but did not take any formal action to address long-term sidewalk maintenance. 

Recognizing a need for ongoing maintenance the 2025 BOD, comprised of the same members from 2022, decided to increase HOA annual dues in order to establish an ongoing funding mechanism for inevitable repairs to both roads and sidewalks.  One half of the HOA dues increase was informally ear-marked as being exclusively for concrete repairs and a separate bank account for these repairs was established. 

1.  All road repairs are prioritized ahead of sidewalk repairs. 

2.  Sidewalks deemed hazardous (a set of standards is being developed)

3.  Sidewalks with exposed rebar that would contribute to the further deterioration of adjoining concrete

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