Welcome to the Morgan's Crossing community and Jefferson Court community near Carlisle, Pennsylvania!  This website is continually under development and strives to be a "one-stop-shop" for communication and information sharing within the Home Owners Association (HOA, or "association")- and it's important to remember that if you live here, you ARE part of the the HOA!    The Jefferson Court community, located just to the south of Morgans's Crossing, is part of the Morgan's Crossing HOA as defined in the Planned Community declaration. 

Morgan's Crossing is a legally declared Planned Community within the framework of Pennsylvania law, in compliance with the requirements of Section 5402(a)(13) of the Pennsylvania Planned Community Act, 68 Pa.C.S. § 5402(a)(13). Morgan's Crossing is a fast-growing neighborhood, and the HOA is growing along with it.   The association administered by an elected executive board of residents in partnership with Century21 Dale Realty company.  The growth and operations of the association are governed by the Planned Community declaration which is available at the link above, in the site menu.

We desire to keep this website as user-friendly and as easy as possible.   If you have suggestions for website improvement, please email the admins at morgansxhoadigital@gmail.com   

THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RECENTLY CHANGED WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE.  If you have emailed the board and Century21 in the weeks leading up to August 1st 2024 and have not received a reply, please resend to the following address: pm@c21dale.com

Contact information for the HOA Board and C21 Dale Realty Property Management:
E-Mail pm@c21dale.com
Phone: 717-843-2869
Fax: 717-854-6070

Dear Homeowners,

Welcome to the Morgan’s Crossing HOA website! This is a brief orientation to how our community governance works. There are four documents that guide our policy and practice. Here they are, in descending order of authority. In case of conflict between documents, the one listed first takes priority:

1. All Pennsylvania planned communities are subject to the Uniform Planned Community Act, No.1996-180, 68 Pa.C.S. §§5101 – 5414. This law supersedes any other law or rule established by the community. It is called “The Act” in our founding documents.

2. The Builder (called the Declarant) crafted the “Declaration of Morgan’s Crossing” as part the process of constructing the planned community. It is our major founding document. Each homeowner received a copy of the Declaration at closing, and it can be viewed on this website under the “Declaration and Bylaws” heading above.

3. The Declarant also crafted the “Bylaws for the Morgan’s Crossing Homeowners Association,”written to comply with the Declaration. It too was given to all homeowners at closing, and it can be viewed above under “Declaration and Bylaws.”

4. The Executive Board, in conjunction with the HOA membership, have crafted a set of “Rules and Regulations” with which all members of the community should comply. Whereas the Declaration and Bylaws can only be changed by an arduous process involving legal counsel, the Rules and Regulations can be changed easily by a simple majority vote of the membership at a meeting or even by the Executive Board itself. The current Rules and Regulations can be viewed under the “HOA Rules and Regulations” tab above. 

The Declaration and Bylaws explain in detail how the HOA is to be governed. Essentially, homeowners, at an annual meeting held every April, elect a three-member Executive Board, wherein each member serves a one-year term. Any HOA member is free to run for election, and elected members may serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms so long as they continue to be elected.

The Executive Board appoints a three-member Architectural Control Committee (ARC), wherein each member serves a two-year term, and each can be reappointed as many times as the Board wishes to do so and the member chooses to remain. The ARC evaluates and either approves or rejects all applications for structural changes to any property. Homeowners wishing to make a structural change (e.g. fences, decks, patios, swimming pools, raised garden beds, flagpoles, additions to homes) must submit a written proposal describing the change and receive approval prior to beginning construction. The form and more information about the process for doing this can be found under the “HOA Requests” tab above.

We hope this brief orientation helps. The Board welcomes all feedback any homeowner may wish to share. A description of how to provide such feedback can be found under the “HOA Requests” tab above, under the “HOA General Request” subheading.

Thanks so much!

Amanda Asherman

Milton Gaither

Kira Wolf

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE HOA BOARD REGARDING GROUNDWATER RUNOFF AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT:
NEVER dispose of or put any pool chemicals, automotive fluids, cleaning chemicals, paint, bleach, cooking oil, or anything else directly in the ground, the storm sewers, or especially in the retention ponds. All our water runoff eventually reaches the Chesapeake Bay. 

The Clean Streams Law (35 P.S. §§ 691.1–691.1001) and 25 Pa. Code Chapter 91 and Chapter 92a.  are very clear on this. Here’s an excerpt from the Clean Streams Law, section 401:

“It shall be unlawful for any person or municipality to put or place into any of the waters of the Commonwealth, or allow or permit to be discharged from property owned or occupied by such  person or municipality into any of the waters of the Commonwealth, any substance of any kind or character resulting in pollution as herein defined.” 

Waters of the Commonwealth is defined to include “all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments, ditches, water courses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, ponds, springs and all other bodies or channels of conveyance of surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or artificial, within or on the boundaries of this Commonwealth.”

Violators are subject to up to a $2500 fine per infraction per day.  If the HOA board becomes aware of anyone polluting the retention zones it will investigate, and if the behavior continues it will refer the case to the PA Department of Environmental Protection.

Please be aware of the potential consequences.   PADEP and other Commonwealth agencies take groundwater contamination very seriously.  It is a fact that every drop of water (or any other chemical) which falls on the ground in Morgans Crossing eventually ends up in the Letort Spring Creek, then the Conodoguinet Creek, then the Susquehanna River, then the Chesapeake Bay, then the Atlantic Ocean.     In the words of many Clean Water advocates around the world,  "WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM".