Laredo, TX HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

Laredo Land Development Code does not regulate homeowners associations generally, but it requires one to exist wherever a Planned Unit Development (PUD) district relies on shared infrastructure. Section 24-70.4 states that any project proposing common or shared property, including private streets, common areas, common utilities, and shared party walls, must establish a nonprofit association of homeowners or property owners under the Texas Local Government Code and Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The association exists for two stated purposes: assigning ownership of the common property and providing a maintenance plan for everything the lots share. That second duty is not decorative: Section 24-70.3 separately makes the association responsible for all maintenance and operating costs of street lighting installed along private streets within the PUD, a cost the developer bears at installation but the association carries afterward. Because PUD private streets and sidewalks are not public infrastructure, the city does not maintain them, so the mandatory association is the only mechanism ensuring someone remains responsible once the developer exits.

PUD approval itself runs through Section 24-70.1 and 24-70.2, which set the district purpose and minimum size requirements, and a PUD site plan becomes binding on the property once approved under Section 24-70.6. Because the property owners association requirement is tied to the underlying PUD zoning approval rather than a separate license, a developer cannot get a PUD plat or site plan approved with shared streets or common areas until the association is formed, since the Section 24-70.4 obligation attaches at the platting stage alongside the other PUD standards.