Williamson County, TN HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

06 of the Williamson County Zoning Ordinance requires that, wherever common open space or common areas are required or proposed within a residential development of two or more lots, a homeowners' or property owners' association be established to permanently maintain that open space and common areas. 06(A), the applicant must file a declaration of covenants and restrictions along with proposed articles of incorporation and bylaws at the time of the Final Plat application or as part of a Major Site Plan approval, and those documents must provide that the association is established before any lots are sold (A)(1), that membership is mandatory for every owner and successive owner (A)(2), and that the open-space restrictions are permanent rather than for a set term (A)(3).

06(C) requires the covenants to be recorded with the final subdivision plat and bars any covenant, article or bylaw from letting the association abrogate the duties this section sets. 06(D) goes further than mere formation: the association must be incorporated and remain active permanently, and if it dissolves for any reason, whether administrative or otherwise, maintenance responsibility for the common areas passes to the individual lot owners on a pro-rata basis, though owners may instead re-form the association under the subdivision's restrictive covenants and assess each lot equally to fund the needed maintenance.