Washington County, MN HOA Rules: Dispute Resolution (2026)

8 lists what a Homeowners' Association Agreement or declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions must contain before Washington County approves an Open Space Development's Conditional Use Permit (CUP). ' The county does not prescribe the mechanism itself, no mandatory mediation body or arbitration clause is written into the Development Code, only that the recorded document must contain one before the CUP data package is complete. That dispute-resolution item sits alongside six others: the legal description of the common land (item 1), the use restrictions and who enforces them (item 2), a mechanism to assess and enforce common expenses including upkeep, taxes and insurance (item 4), the conditions and timing of any transfer of the land to the association (item 5), any other matter the developer deems appropriate (item 6), and management of collector sewage treatment systems where they exist (item 7).

10(4)(F)'s resident-access requirement, are exactly the kind of conflict the mandatory mechanism in item (3) is meant to route into the association's own process rather than into county zoning enforcement.