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Highland Creek residents fight plan by homeowners association to fix builder's error and change lawns from Bermuda to fescue.

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

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Byline: Karen Cimino and Michele Wayman

Aug. 18--Neighborhoods have rules over the color of your house or the height of your fence. Now, residents in one University City neighborhood are fighting their homeowners association over grass. The Highland Creek Community Association, which oversees a development of nearly 5,000 homes, is pushing to plant fescue in place of Bermuda grass that a homebuilder says it mistakenly put down at about 60 of the 100 homes in the Dominion Crossing neighborhood. Saying the neighborhood's design standards require fescue grass, the association wants to spray herbicide, dig up the Bermuda and reseed to grow new front lawns from…

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