Lee's Summit, MO HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

UDO Sec. 280 conditions approval of a preliminary development plan, or a preliminary plat where no development plan is required, containing common property on the applicant first establishing a condominium or property owners' association for the perpetual ownership and maintenance of that common property. The applicant must also demonstrate the association's financial and administrative ability to actually own and maintain what it is given (Sec. 280(A)). Once formed, the association cannot be dissolved, or dispose of common property by sale or otherwise, unless a new association assumes all the same duties, or unless the City consents to reassigning the final development plan's maintenance responsibilities to a different person or entity with the financial, legal and administrative capacity to perform them (Sec.

280(B)). The Governing Body may additionally require the association to sign a maintenance contract guaranteeing perpetual upkeep of the common property (Sec. 280(C)), and it retains discretion to approve an entity other than a condominium or property owners' association to hold and maintain the common property in place of the standard structure (Sec. 280(D)). This governance backbone is reinforced by the companion Sec. 290 declaration of covenants, which must independently require mandatory association membership for every lot owner and successor buyer, make that declaration permanent, and bar dissolution of the association without the City's consent unless maintenance duties are reassigned with City approval.

Sec. 300 then places day-to-day upkeep responsibility on the association itself, and holds a developer who still controls the association's board jointly and severally liable for the association's maintenance obligations during that control period.