Welcome to Boulder Walk

01Your first two weeks

Short list. None of it takes long.

• Register for TownSqThe community app — dues, documents, requests, announcements, and how you'll hear about anything happening in the neighborhood. Section 2.
• Set up your dues payment$450 a year. Autopay or a calendar reminder — either is fine, but pick one. Section 6.
• Start your utilitiesWater is DeKalb County; power and gas are separate. Section 3.
• Learn the trash dayTuesday, with a holiday rule worth knowing. Section 4.
• Save Valerie's numberOur community manager. She's the person to call for almost anything Association-related. Section 2.
• Skim section 9 onceThe community standards on one spread — parking, pets, signs, exterior changes. Two minutes now saves a phone call later.
• Come to the BashOur annual neighborhood party, and the fastest way to meet forty people at once. Section 15.

02TownSq & who to call

Two things to set up here: the app, and the phone number. Between them they cover almost everything you'll ever need from the Association.

Your community manager

Getting into TownSq

TownSq is where the Association keeps everything: your account and dues, the governing documents, maintenance and architectural requests, the community calendar, and announcements.

1. Watch for the invitation email. Once Homeside processes your closing packet, they'll email an invitation to the address on file. Click the link and create a password.
2. Or sign up with your account number. Go to app.townsq.io and choose Sign up with an account number. You'll need your account number — it's on your dues statement — and your property ZIP code.

Then get the app: search TownSq in the App Store or Google Play, and sign in with the same credentials. Turn on notifications; it's how you'll hear about water shutoffs, tree work and meetings.

If the invitation never arrives or your account number isn't handy, that's a call to Valerie — TownSq support can't issue account numbers.

Two short videos worth five minutes

From TownSq, and they cover the two things most new residents ask about. Scan the code or type the link.

Start here Connect, Collaborate & Stay Informed with TownSq youtu.be/bwIvjIltuV8

Before you renovate Submit Architectural Projects with the TownSq App youtu.be/S4uunc9YN3k

What goes where

03Utilities & county services

One thing to know up front: Boulder Walk is in unincorporated DeKalb County, not inside the City of Atlanta limits — even though your mailing address says Atlanta. That decides who picks up your trash, which schools you're zoned for, which library system you belong to, and who answers when you call about a streetlight.

04Trash & recycling

Bring cans back in once they've been emptied. Trash goes out in sealed bags and in a proper receptacle — the covenants ask for that much, and it's mostly about keeping things tidy at the curb and out of reach of animals.

While you're at the curb

• The strip between your lot and the street is yours to maintain — the covenants put that right-of-way on the homeowner, not the Association.
• Keep drainage clear. Catch basins and drainage areas handle stormwater for the whole street. Keep any grate or headwall on your lot free of leaves and debris, especially in the fall.
• Keep corners visible. Nothing planted or parked where it blocks the sight line at an intersection.

05Your Association

Boulder Walk Homeowners Association, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit corporation, run by a volunteer board of three neighbors and supported by a professional management company. When you took title, you became a member — there's nothing to sign up for.

The annual meeting

Held within 60 days of the close of the calendar year — so typically January or February. Notice goes out at least 21 days ahead. It's where directors are elected and where the Board walks through the budget and the year's finances. Come if you can; it's the one place the whole neighborhood is in a room together talking about the place.

06Dues & what they cover

Dues are $450 per lot, per year, and every lot pays the same — square footage and home value don't enter into it.

Where it goes

Common area landscaping and upkeep, the entrance and its plantings, street signs, detention pond maintenance, the Association's insurance, management fees, and a contribution toward reserves for the bigger replacement items that come due every so often.

The Board sets the budget each year and gets it to owners at least 21 days before dues are due. It takes effect unless a majority of the membership votes it down at a duly called meeting.

Paying

Through TownSq — one-time or recurring. Direct debit and mailed checks carry no convenience fee; credit cards and eCheck do, and the fee is charged by the payment processor rather than the Association. If you set up autopay, note that the amount is usually fixed, so if dues ever change you'll want to update it.

If you're ever behind and it's a timing problem rather than a dispute, call Valerie before it compounds. That conversation is a normal part of her job.

07Who maintains what

Boulder Walk is a single-family neighborhood, so the split leans heavily toward the homeowner. The short version: your lot is yours; the shared spaces are the Association's.

If something on common property needs attention — a downed limb, a light out at the entrance, a washed-out area after a storm — send it through the Requests tab in TownSq with a photo. That's the fastest route to getting it scheduled.

08Making changes to your home

Anything that changes how your home looks from the outside needs written approval before the work starts. That's a normal covenanted-neighborhood arrangement, and it's the mechanism that keeps the street looking like the street you bought into.

What needs an application

Broadly: new construction on the lot, and any change or addition that affects the exterior appearance. In practice that covers fences, decks and patios, additions, exterior paint colors, roof replacement in a different material or color, storm doors, solar panels, sheds and outbuildings, major landscaping changes, and driveway or walkway work.

Routine like-for-like maintenance — repainting the same color, replacing a broken window with the same window — generally isn't a change. If you're not sure, a quick note through TownSq is cheaper than guessing.

How it works

1. Apply through TownSq, under Architectural Review. The video in section 2 walks through the screens.
2. Include enough to say yes to — drawings or a sketch with dimensions, a survey or plat showing where it goes, materials, colors, product specs, and who's doing the work. Incomplete applications stall.
3. The Board has 45 days to approve or decline a complete application.
4. Once approved, start within three months and finish within six months of starting. Extensions are available in writing if a contractor's schedule slips.

If an application is declined, you can appeal to the Board in writing within 14 days, and it will rule within 45 days of receiving the appeal.

09The rules at a glance

The community standards, summarized. None of this is surprising — it's mostly what you'd expect of any neighborhood where people care how the street looks. Where a detail matters to you, the recorded covenants are the real answer, and they're in TownSq under Documents.

Parking & vehicles

Pets

Signs

Anything else — contractor signs, banners, yard-sale signs — needs a quick okay from the Board first. Signs required by a permit or legal process are exempt.

Yard & exterior

Using your home

10Eating & drinking

East Atlanta Village — the intersection of Flat Shoals and Glenwood — is the closest real restaurant district, about eight minutes away. It's small, walkable once you park, and unusually good for its size.

Worth the trip on a first night

Coffee & bakeries

Restaurant openings and closings move fast in EAV. Everything above was verified open as of August 2026 — call ahead if it's a special occasion.

11Groceries & errands

12Health & pharmacy

13Parks & trails

This is quietly one of the best things about living here, and it's getting better.

14Libraries, gyms & civic

Because Boulder Walk is in unincorporated DeKalb, your library system is DeKalb County Public Library — not Atlanta-Fulton. Your card works system-wide.

Gyms

• Gresham Park Recreation Center — 3113 Gresham Rd SE. The closest public option; gym, basketball, playground.
• Village Fitness EAV — 1231 Glenwood Ave SE. Independent neighborhood gym, in the old Ace Hardware building.
• OxFit East Atlanta — 1358 Glenwood Ave SE. Functional fitness and interval training.

15The Boulder Walk Bash

Our annual neighborhood party, put on every year by the HOA Social Committee. It's an afternoon at The Gathering Gardens with food, music, something for the kids, and a different theme each year.

If you've just moved in, this is the single best thing on this list. You'll meet more neighbors in one afternoon than in six months of waving from the driveway — and it's a much easier way to introduce yourself than knocking on doors.

16Getting involved

R1Quick reference

Numbers to keep

Money

The Association

R2Dates worth knowing

R3The governing documents

The full text lives in TownSq, under Documents — always the current version, and the easiest place to look. These are the recording details if you ever need certified copies from the DeKalb County Clerk of Superior Court.

Boulder Walk was developed by Benchmark/Boulder Key, LLC. The 2007 restatement was approved by at least 75% of lot owners and submitted the community to the Georgia Property Owners' Association Act, O.C.G.A. § 44-3-220 et seq.

R4Glossary