Opinion ID: 2779091
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Drainage Disclosure

Text: The Drainage Disclosure dated November 9, 1987 does not alter this result. That document requires subsequent owners of the individual lots in Crystal Ridge to be notified that [s]ubstantial surface and subsurface drainage controls have been necessary in the development of the subject property and that special and/or extraordinary drainage controls may be necessary on individual lots. The City urges us to read this disclosure as warning subsequent Crystal Ridge homeowners that they were responsible, as members of the HOA, for maintaining the interceptor pipe in Tract 999. This is incorrect. The disclosure notifies individual future homeowners that they may have to take extraordinary drainage precautions on their own lots to supplement existing drainage facilities, not that they were responsible for maintaining drainage facilities that had already been placed. As with the original plat, adopting the City's interpretation of the disclosure document would both run counter to the 13 Crystal Ridge Homeowners Ass'n eta/. v. City of Bothell, No. 89533-3 document's plain meaning and read Tract 999's drainage easement out of the Crystal Ridge plat. 10