Concord, NC HOA Rules: Dispute Resolution (2026)

13's Conservation Subdivision District ties any homeowners association that will own shared open space to a defined set of governing-document requirements under Sec. 7(B). Before the City approves a conservation subdivision's preliminary plat, the developer must submit the HOA's bylaws or its declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions, and those documents must contain eight specific items. Item 6 requires a mechanism for resolving disputes among the owners or association members, placed alongside the legal description of the common land, a description of common facilities, use restrictions, who may enforce them, the assessment mechanism for common expenses, and the terms for transferring land to the association.

The Ordinance doesn't prescribe the mechanism itself, whether mediation, an internal grievance committee, or binding arbitration, leaving that design choice to the developer and the association's drafters, but it makes some documented process a mandatory condition of plat approval. Because membership in the association is mandatory for every home purchaser and their successors under the same subsection, every owner in the subdivision is bound by whatever dispute process the approved bylaws establish. City staff check for the mechanism's presence when reviewing the preliminary plat submission, not its substantive fairness, so the requirement functions as a gatekeeping condition rather than a substantive dispute-resolution code the City itself administers.