When buying a home you expect certain ongoing expenses, like the mortgage, property taxes, and possibly fees to a terrible HOA. One cost most homeowners don’t have is a toll just to drive in and out of the neighborhood. That’s exactly the situation that residents of Creekland Village near Cypress, Texas, have found themselves in, reports KHOU.
The only way in and out of the neighborhood is State Highway 99, also known as the Grand Parkway, a tolled partial beltway around much of the ever-expanding greater Houston area. Neighborhoods like Creekland Village are part of that expansion, having just opened in 2023 according to the Houston Chronicle. It’s located along Segment E of the Grand Parkway, which opened to traffic ten years earlier in 2013, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Texas has an obsession with seemingly endless frontage roads, but none exist in the Creekland Village area, leaving the toll road as the only way in or out.
It would be easy to blame this on the residents who bought their homes there. There is an argument that they should have done their research and known what they were getting into. On the other hand, residents claim that the development company never mentioned the toll situation before they bought their homes…