Burleson, TX HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)
Key Facts
- Core rule
- Mandatory property owners' association
- Who must belong
- All property served by private streets
- City cost share
- None for building or maintaining private streets
- Plat note
- Association maintains the streets; city keeps access rights
- Streetlight power
- HOA pays in private-street subdivisions (§ 5.10(f))
- Governing section
- Appendix A, § 5.8(g)
Summary
In the City of Burleson, Texas, any development built with private streets must have a mandatory property owners' association that includes all property served by those streets. The association exists to maintain the street, because the City of Burleson pays for no part of constructing or maintaining a private street. The rule is Appendix A, § 5.8(g).
(d) Cost of private streets.The city shall not pay for any portion of the cost of constructing or maintaining a private street. ... (g) Maintenance.Developments with private streets shall have a mandatory property owners' association which includes all property served by private streets to ensure maintenance of the private street. (h) Waiver of services.The plat, property deeds, and property owner association documents must include the following note: "The following public services are not provided within this subdivision: • Street maintenance • Routine police patrols • Enforcement of traffic and parking ordinance • Preparation of accident reports • Solid waste collection • Recycling collection"
Full Breakdown
The rule sits in the City of Burleson's Subdivision and Development ordinance, Appendix A of the Code of Ordinances, in § 5.8, Private streets. Subsection (g) says developments with private streets shall have a mandatory property owners' association which includes all property served by private streets, and it states the purpose: to ensure maintenance of the private street. The association is not optional, and it cannot leave out a lot that the private street serves.
Several neighboring subsections explain why the City Council wants it. Under (d), the city does not pay for any portion of the cost of constructing or maintaining a private street. Under (c), the plat must carry a note that the streets have not been dedicated to the public or accepted by the City of Burleson as public improvements, and that the property owners association within the subdivision maintains them. The same note gives the city or county a right of access for fire and police protection, inspection, code enforcement and postal service. Under (f), a community facilities contract is required for construction of private streets, and under (e) the city inspects them at the developer's cost, with the fee set by the city council.
Subsection (h) requires the plat, property deeds and property owner association documents to carry a waiver note. It lists six public services not provided in the subdivision: street maintenance, routine police patrols, enforcement of traffic and parking ordinance, preparation of accident reports, solid waste collection and recycling collection. Depending on the development's characteristics, other services can be excluded as well.
Two other sections reach the association. Section 5.10(f) makes the homeowner's association responsible for the cost of electricity for streetlights in subdivisions with private streets or in the ETJ. Section 6.1(c) requires a property owner's association when a large development related feature is authorized on a separate lot.
Violations & Fines
Section 5.8 prints no fine of its own, so the control is plat approval. The city can deny the creation of a private street that would negatively affect traffic circulation on public streets, impair access to property or to schools, parks and libraries, or delay the response time of emergency vehicles. Streets shown on the thoroughfare plan map cannot be used, maintained or constructed as private streets at all.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does every Burleson subdivision need a homeowners association?
Who maintains a private street in the City of Burleson?
Does the city pick up trash in a private-street neighborhood?
Who pays for streetlight electricity in a private-street subdivision?
Sources & Official References
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