Stonecrest, GA HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

Stonecrest's zoning ordinance treats the homeowners or property owners association as one of three approved custodians of a development's required open space, alongside the city itself and a land conservancy or land trust, under Sec. 5.5.2(A). Where a subdivision chooses that path, Sec. 5.5.2(A)(3) sets the governance baseline: 'Membership in the association shall be mandatory and automatic for all homeowners or property owners, and their successors,' so a new buyer inherits membership with the deed and cannot decline to join. Before the association can take on this role, its 'organizational documents must first be submitted to the director of planning for review to ensure compliance with this subsection,' giving the city a gatekeeping check on governance structure, not just maintenance obligations.

The same subsection closes with a state-law backstop: the association 'shall be formed and maintained in compliance with all applicable state law,' meaning Georgia's property owners association statutes govern formation and operation questions the zoning ordinance itself does not answer. This governance package sits inside the broader open-space chapter: the association's open space must also be recorded as a conservation easement, restrictive covenant, or equivalent document approved by the city, and that recorded instrument becomes void only if the property is later redeveloped under standards that supersede it.