What the recorded documents actually say about Georgian Acres in Granger — fences, sheds, pools, pets, parking and the rest — with the part of the document each answer comes from.
4 homes have sold here in the last four years, which is why this neighborhood was compiled early.
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The pull holds one 8-page scan, hoa__georgian-acres, and the extraction input carries all 8 pages; the input text and the 8 page files on disk match, and there are 8 page images, so nothing was windowed away. Page 4 and page 8 were read by eye from data/vision_pages/hoa__georgian-acres/ because both are short pages, and both proved to be genuine last pages ending at Article V, Interpretation. The silences below are the documents being silent, not the OCR. The scan is a title company transcription that sets out two recorded instruments in sequence, the 1966 Georgian Acres declaration and the 1969 Georgian Acres Third Section declaration. The two are substantively the same document, article for article, so every answer below holds for both sections; where a lot sits decides which one is its own. No signature or notary pages and no amendments are included. The other three MLS folders under this slug hold only seller disclosures, a lead-based paint disclosure, a county addendum and a home report, no covenant material.
Fences are tightly limited. Only an ornamental fence is permitted, and it may not exceed four feet in height. No fence may be erected nearer the street line than the rear line of the residence, measured from either street, so front-yard fencing is out and on a corner lot the rule applies from both frontages. The documents do not define what counts as ornamental, and do not list approved materials. Note also that any structure needs written approval from the building committee before it goes up, and the hedge and shrubbery rule in the same paragraph caps plantings between the building line and the street line at three feet.
A shed is not a straightforward yes here, and the two declarations pull in different directions. The land use article says no building other than a detached dwelling house may be built on a lot, except a garage used exclusively for domestic purposes that conforms in design and construction with the residence. Read alone, that leaves no room for a separate storage building. But the building location article then sets a rule for an accessory building other than a one, two or three car garage, requiring it to sit at least forty-five feet back from the front lot line, which only makes sense if such a building can exist. The nuisance article separately bans any hut, shack, barn or building of a temporary nature. What is certain is the gate: no building may be erected, placed or altered until plans, specifications and a location plan are approved in writing by the building committee. Anyone wanting a shed should treat this as a question to resolve with the title company and the seller before closing rather than an answered one.
House trailers may not be parked on a lot for longer than seventy-two hours. The declarations use that one term and do not separately name boats, campers, motorhomes or travel trailers, so how far the clause reaches beyond a house trailer is not settled by the text. Two nearby clauses bear on the same ground: no trailer may be used as a residence at any time, temporarily or permanently, and no lot may be used to store old lumber, cars, materials or debris that would make the lot unsightly.
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We can find out →Every exterior change goes through a committee on paper. No building may be erected, placed or altered until the plans, specifications and a plan showing where the structure will sit have been approved in writing by the Georgian Acres Building Committee, judged on materials, harmony of external design with existing structures, and location relative to topography and finish grade. Two things soften that. If the committee fails to approve or disapprove within thirty days of submission, or if no suit to stop the work is filed before it is completed, approval is not required and the restriction counts as satisfied. And the committee is four individuals named in 1966 and 1969 with no replacement mechanism, so it may not be functioning. Fixed standards that do not depend on the committee: dwellings and accessory buildings must be substantial frame, brick or stone, exteriors must be fully completed before anyone moves in, a residence needs at least 1,000 square feet of ground floor area excluding porches and garages, or 720 square feet for a story-and-a-half or two-story, and each home must have a post light of similar type, height and setback to those already in the subdivision, on an automatic operator running sundown to dawn.
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We can find out →Grading, landscaping and seeding or sodding have to be finished within twelve months from the date construction starts. Planting near the street is capped: a hedge, shrubbery or trees may be kept between the rear of the residence and the street line, but may not exceed three feet in height between the building line and the street line. Lots abutting Grape Road are the exception and run the other way, because screen planting of shrubbery and trees is required along Grape Road, and the owner of such a lot has to maintain it and pay for any replacement. Nothing sets a lawn mowing standard or a plant list.
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We can find out →Household dogs and cats are the only animals permitted. The clause names live poultry, sheep, hogs, horses and cattle as prohibited, then bars any animal other than a domesticated dog or cat house pet from being housed on or about a lot. One wrinkle a buyer should hear about: in the original typescript the word reads car rather than cat, and someone underlined it by hand on both the 1966 and the 1969 page, which reads as a known typo rather than anything meaningful. No number limit, no breed or size rule, and no leashing rule appears anywhere in either declaration.
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We can find out →No sign of any kind may be displayed to public view on a lot, with three exceptions. One professional sign of not more than one square foot. One sign of not more than five square feet advertising the realty for sale or rent. And signs of any size used by a builder to advertise the property during the construction and sales period. Political, contractor, security and holiday signs are not mentioned, so as written they fall under the general ban.
There is no street parking rule, no driveway parking rule and no cap on how many vehicles a household may keep. The two clauses that bite are a ban on using a lot to store old lumber, cars, materials or debris that would make it unsightly, and a seventy-two hour limit on parking a house trailer. Driveways have their own specification: hard surface pavement or crushed limestone for the full length and width, and if crushed limestone is used it has to be contained by curbing, with a suitable hard surface culvert at the street approach meeting the county highway department standard in force at the time.
The declarations restrict what a lot may be used for rather than setting up a home occupation permit. A lot may not be improved, used or occupied for anything other than private, one-family residential purposes, and a separate clause bars any noxious or offensive trade or activity on a lot. There is no home occupation carve-out and no approval path. Pointing the other way, the sign clause expressly allows one professional sign of up to one square foot, which suggests a professional working from home was contemplated when this was drafted. A buyer planning to run a business from the house should get that read by a real estate attorney rather than relying on either clause alone.
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We can find out →The garbage rule is stricter than most and reads as written for 1966. All garbage cans kept on the premises must be of the concealed type and kept under ground, and no ashes or other rubbish may be left in public view. Unattractive incinerators, barrels specifically, are prohibited, and all fuel tanks must be buried or concealed. Whether in-ground cans are still used in practice is a question for the seller, but that is what the recorded restriction says.
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