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WESTCHESTER ASSOCIATION OF HOMEOWNERS Of the 61 Home Owners Associations in Grand Prairie Texas, Westchester is the largest with over 2300 homes. Through the years, many dedicated residents have volunteered their time and efforts to make Westchester one of the best places to live in the Southwest region of Dallas County. Westchester was Voted #1 in several catagories by the Dallas Morning News, include best community to live in. The Westchester community of homeowners was the first in Grand Prairie Texas to elect to have a Public Improvement District (PID). This created a public private partnership with the city council to maintain public lands at a higher standard while offering several advantages such as exemption of state and city sales taxes on purchased services, and funding collected by ad valorem property tax held in a special city trust fund. The PID does not handle Deed Restrictions and this remains the function of the assocation. Indeed the HOA and the PID have some common interest but they do not perform the same function. Being active in both processes is vital to our community prosperity. You are part of the HOA by the very nature of owning property or living in the community. Westchester association of homeowners is unique in that the dues are voluntary. Some surveys show that the general popularity of HOA’s is low as they are seen as over bearing and overly restrictive. Yet, everyone agrees there must be some standards for the community. These standards help maintain property values and desirability. The 3 rules in real estate is location, location and location.
Why did you move here? Do you want to keep it this way, make it better or both?
Westchester History
During the summer of 1986, several residents established a neighborhood crime watch and decided to form an association to assure the beauty, safety and stability of the neighborhood and the surrounding community. The turnout at the Trammell Crow meeting in February 1987 proved that Westchester is a community that is committed to its future and has an interest in being involved. On March 16, 1987, a general meeting was called in which an association was formed and a temporary Executive Committee was elected. The main duty of the Committee was to develop a set of bylaws. At the General Meeting held May 28, 1987, 7:00 pm at the Sesquicentennial Park, the bylaws were approved and elections for the Executive board were held. These presidents and their board members have donated their time to support the community in which they live. Who have developed, fostered and contributed to the HOA that we have today. WAHO could not be the community we are today without their dedication, passion and vision that they all had independently year after year. 'WALL OF HONOR' WAHO PAST PRESIDENT HONOREE LIST 1987-1987 Bill Moore
1987-1988 Bill Stephan
1988-1989 John Paschall
1989-1990 John Pendergrass
1990-1991 Debbie Caldwell
1991-1992 Scott Shimer
1992-1994 Dane Rasmussen
1994-1995 Keith Stock
1995-1997 Jeff Cannon
1997-1999 Gary LaGray
1999-2000 Cory Abbott
2000-2001 Lisa Barnes
2001-2004 John Stewart
2004-2005 Brandon Rose
2005-2006 Wes McCoy
2006-2008 Virginia Shafer
2008-2009 Libby Clawson
2009-2013 Rosemary Reed
2013-2014 Todd Hancock
2014-2016 Kurt Johnson
2017-2019 Louis Howerton
2019 - John Stewart
Please come join us and remember your dues will allow us to do more good in the neighborhood. Together we can do more in our community than the sum of our individual efforts.
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