Welcome to the Harrington Homeplace Homeowners Association (HHHOA) website!
Harrington Homeplace a thriving community of 125 single family homes in Plano, TX, a suburb north of Dallas, Texas, and is located only a short distance from the Legacy Drive business park area which has corporate campuses such as Toyota, HP, Frito Lay, Dr Pepper and the SMU in Legacy campus. Also nearby are The Shops at Legacy and Legacy West - home of many popular shopping and dining establishments.
Harrington Homeplace is a BEST Neighborhoods Gold Awardee, a program sponsored by the City of Plano which recognizes communities that are Beautiful, Engaged, Safe and Thriving.
Within a 5 minute drive residents have access to numerous quality restaurants, businesses, shopping and easy access to DFW Airport (30 minutes) and downtown Dallas (25 minutes).
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS & INFO
Homeowners
Pay assessments, access account information, HOA annual reports and other material through the homeowner portal on the Homeowner Login section of the website.
Next Annual Meeting to be Held February 25, 2025
The next Annual Meeting will be held in person on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 6 p.m. at Haggard Library located at 2501 Coit Road, Plano, TX 75075 in the Genealogy Room.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, please complete a proxy which is available at this link and can be completed online in a few seconds!!
Additional details available here.
The Next Board Meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 immediately following the annual meeting
This will be a brief meeting conducted at the end of the annual meeting. The purpose is to elect Board of Directors officers (President, Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President) for 2025.
Regular board meetings are held roughly every calendar quarter and are open to Harrington Homeplace homeowners.
Click here for additional details.
Winter Watering in Effect November 1 to March 31
The following is a message from the City of Plano:
Plano residents and businesses are asked to only water a maximum of -
Winter:
Once per week during the winter between November 1 and March 31 and
• If watering is needed, set your sprinklers to run when the temperature is warmer, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., to avoid icing of streets and sidewalks.
Spring:
Twice per week from April 1 to October 31
Watering between 10 a.m and 6 p.m. is prohibited.
Even Addresses: Residential addresses with an even number (0, 2, 4, 6 and 8) as their last digit water Mondays and Thursdays.
Odd Addresses: Residential addresses with an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) as their last digit water Tuesdays and Fridays.
HOA Schedule: As HOA watering involves watering of their common areas and in many cases the City of Plano right of way (which has no address), all HOA watering and addresses ending in zero follow an EVEN address watering schedule.
Additional detail and useful links are available here.
Refer to the City of Plano website for additional information regarding Water Conservation and Guidelines.
CRIME WATCH & NEXTDOOR
The Association has an active Crime Watch that sends alerts and information on an as needed basis. If you would like to receive these alerts, please email our crime watch coordinator to be added.
The board has also endorsed www.nextdoor.com as a platform for all residents of Harrington Homeplace to connect, network and share notes online. Nextdoor.com offers a private platform which combines social networking tools with additional privacy by limiting membership to those who live inside the Harrington Homeplace neighborhood. If you haven't already visited it, we encourage you to signup and visit the Harrington Homeplace Nextdoor private network
Nextdoor has been endorsed by the City of Plano and Plano Police has partnered with the social network to help facilitate a virtual neighborhood watch program and help foster neighbor-to-neighbor communications.
Many of our residents have already signed up to nextdoor.com and are actively using it to receive crime watch alerts, community information and share information with neighbors. You are invited to join. Please let any of our board members know and we will send you an invitation.
To report incidents, please contact the Plano Police Dept and complete an incident report for HHHOA or alert us using NextDoor.
Plano Police Phone Numbers
Police Emergency 9-1-1
Police Non-emergency 972-424-5678
Fire Department Non-Emergency 972-941-7159
Exterior Changes/Modifications to Home or Property
Most changes to the exterior of our homes, including landscaping changes, require the prior approval of the Association's Architectural Control Committee (ACC).
If you are planning to make a change to the exterior of your home (new addition, roof, fence, paint, landscape, trees, etc.), you are required to submit an Architectural Control Committee (ACC) Change Request in order to obtain approval PRIOR to the changes.
Click here to download the form.
Other Association documents and forms can be found here.
To help make the process easier on everyone, the ACC has made much information available on its website.
For questions, email ACC@harringtonhomeplace.org
SPRINKLERS or other Landscaping Infrastructure Issues
Please contact Landscaping Committee if you notice any problems with the irrigation system, like broken sprinkler heads, stuck valves, etc., or landscape lighting in the common areas. Please provide as much detail like specific location, description of problem, date, time, etc. to facilitate troubleshooting.
landscaping@harringtonhomeplace.org
Harrington Homeplace Recognized as a 2017 Gold Awardee in City of Plano's BEST Neighborhoods Program
The City of Plano's BEST Neighborhoods Designation program recognizes neighborhoods that have gone above and beyond to create a community that is Beautiful, Engaged, Safe, and Thriving - BEST! Harrington Homeplace was recognized at the Gold level.
More information on the program is available on the City of Plano's website at this link.
MAC Group Management Company is Association Manager
The association's board of directors has partnered with MAC Group Management Company to take over the role of our manager effective July 1, 2016. MAC Group is a small business based in north Dallas and has its offices on the Tollway. They manage a number of association's throughout the north DFW area including Plano, Frisco and Allen.
Feel free to check out their website at www.macgrouponline.com.
USEFUL LINKS
Nextdoor
Harrington Homeplace Private Site on Nextdoor.com check here for community news, crimewatch alerts, and general info
Harrington Homeplace Association Manager
MAC Group Management Company is the association manager
Community Association Education and General Information
An Introduction to Community Association Living is a publication by Community Associations Institute (CAI) to help provide a greater understanding of exactly how a community association works from both an organizational and people standpoint, and to endow members with information necessary for fully enjoying and benefiting from community association living.
From Good to Great: Principles of Community Association Success is a publication by CAI that outlines rights and responsibilities for better communities, governance guidelines, code of ethics for board members and community association fundamentals. The Harrington Homeplace board of directors uses this publication as a model to help guide us in making ours a great community.
Community Associations Institute (CAI) is an educational and certification organization that helps identify and meet the needs of associations and the professionals who serve associations
City of Plano - Government & Departments
Fix It Plano Report an issue and watch it get fixed - Report fallen trees, street lights outages, etc
City of Plano City of Plano website
City Government Links to City Government Resources
City Council Council District Map
Plano City Newsletters Stay in touch with the City of Plano - Subscribe to newsletters
Plano City Call Receive a call from the City of Plano in event of emergency or community alert
City of Plano - Facebook Follow the City of Plano on Facebook
City of Plano - Twitter Follow the City of Plano on Twitter
Community Camera Program Sponsored by the Plano Police - register your surveillance cameras
Citizens Programs Educational and awareness programs sponsored by the Plano Police
Fire & Rescue Community Outreach
Sustainability & Environmental Education Programs, classes, presentations on composting, household chemicals, litter awareness, recycling, gardening, energy efficiency, water conservation and air quality.
Residential Services (trash collection, schedules, etc)
Community Directories, Guides & other Info
Plano Magazine a guide to dining, events, news and other community interest topics
Plano History as published by Plano Magazine. Lots of interesting facts about Plano's history
Trash Collection & Recycling Information
Electronic RecyclingTrash & Recycling Services - Home Page (City of Pano)
Collection Information Maps and Schedules
Miscellaneous
Collin County Central Appraisal District
Nextdoor - private network to connect, network, share with neighbors
Plano Independent School District
Utilities, Electrical Rate Plans, Outages
Public Utility Commission (PUC) - File Complaint