CHASE OAKS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 260728 * Plano, Texas 75026-0728 * (972) 517-8852
September 20, 2016
To: All Chase Oaks Homeowners
Re: Renting to Multiple People to live in a Chase Oaks Home
Over the last six months, there have been three homes in the neighborhood where the owner has leased to an individual (or company) but only to find out that there were between six and fifteen people living in the rented house. Next door neighbors to the homes in question noticed the head count and the new parking problems. COHA was notified and relayed the news to the out of town homeowners who were unaware of the issue.
The three home owners involved were extremely cooperative in terminating their leases with the renters in order to solve the problem.
Renting to a group of up to fifteen persons creates numerous safety concerns, unnecessary traffic issues, parking problems in front of mail boxes, and decreases property values for home owners throughout the neighborhood. That many persons living in the same house also leads to unnecessary “wear and tear” on your house causing increased maintenance costs while decreasing its future market value.
Renting your house to a group of persons who do not qualify as a “single family residential unit” is strictly prohibited per the declaration of covenants and restrictions shown below. The Chase Oaks neighborhood is zoned for single family use by the laws and regulations of the City of Plano located in Collin County, Texas at the time of its incorporation in 1990.
COHA is very committed to keep Chase Oaks as a “single family residential” community. All means available to COHA will be utilized to maintain this status to avoid the fate of other neighborhoods who failed to enforce their “single family” zoning requirements.
Please contact me at the email address below to discuss this matter in order to avoid problems for your interests and those of the COHA community.
Thank you,
Eric Chamberlain
COHA President
DECLARATION of COVENANTS and RESTRICITIONS for CHASE OAKS, PHASE I -V
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF COLLIN
KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
THAT CHASE OAKS, LTD., a Texas Limited Partnership (the “Declarant”), is the owner of property described on Exhibit “A” attached hereto and platted and described as Estates at Chase Oaks, (the “Addition”), an Addition to the City of Plano (the “City”), Texas, according to the plat thereof (the “plat”), recorded on January 26, 1990 and filed in Volume G, Page -690 of the Plat Records of Collin County (the “County”), Texas.
ARTICLE I
SECTION 1.1 / RESIDENTIAL USE. All lots shall be used for single-family residential purposes only. No building shall be erected, altered, placed, or permitted to remain per lot, which residence may not exceed two (2) stories in height, and a private garage as provided below.
SECTION 1.2 / SINGLE-FAMILY USE. Each residence may be occupied by only one (1) family consisting of persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage or no more than two (2) unrelated persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, together with any household servants.