Huron Commons
Seventy condominiums from the late 1990s on the Huron River, inside Dexter's Huron Farms
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About Huron Commons
Huron Commons is a 70-unit condominium community built in the late 1990s on the banks of the Huron River, off Dexter-Ann Arbor Road inside the Huron Farms subdivision, minutes from downtown Dexter.
Units run about 1,079 to 1,376 square feet with two or three bedrooms and two baths, each with a one-car detached garage; upper units have vaulted ceilings and the rear units face woods.
- —Seventy units from the late 1990s on the banks of the Huron
- —Late 1990s sits at the end of the polybutylene window — have the piping identified, not inferred
- —The master deed decides whether piping is unit or common element
- —Flood status follows the water and the terrain, not the community boundary
- —River-adjacent common ground is where associations most often under-reserve
On the banks of the Huron
Wherever along the corridor it sits, a river position raises the same questions, and they are parcel-specific rather than community-wide. Flood plain status follows the water and the terrain, not the street pattern or the community boundary, so two units in one community can sit quite differently.
Overland flow and standing water after heavy rain are distinct from mapped flood risk and are frequently the more common experience. They are checked by looking: grade falling away from the building on all sides, gutters and downspouts discharging well clear of the foundation, and no staining at the base of any finished lower level. A visit after a substantial rain is worth more than any document.
In a condominium there is a further layer a house does not have. Where the association owns the ground between the buildings and the water, bank stability, any shoreline structure, drainage and landscaping are its responsibility, and they belong in the reserve study as named lines. River-adjacent ground is one of the places associations most often under-reserve, because the work is intermittent and easy to defer. Ask what the association owns at the water's edge, what it has spent there, and whether the community has ever experienced high water — the minutes and the residents both answer that honestly.
The Huron is a managed river, with dams and impoundments along its length; Barton Pond above Ann Arbor is an impoundment and part of the city's drinking water supply. Levels are influenced by operations upstream as well as by rainfall.
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