hickory cluster association

Updated November 27, 2020
For reference only, not an endorsement or guarantee.

Hickory Cluster Association (HCA) is a Code of Virginia Title 13.1 Chapter 10 Nonstock Corporation and incorporated on November 16, 1964.

The Association's purpose is to " ... take title to, hold, maintain, improve, and beautify, without profit to itself, for the use in common of all the members thereof, their families, guests, and invitees, such parking areas, streets, open spaces, paths, and other facilities ... to enforce the covenants, restrictions ... and to assess, collect, and disburse the charges created under said Deed. ... ."

Palindrome Corporation, the original Reston land owner and development company whose first name for this group of 90 townhomes was Reston Hill Cluster, deeded common area land and improvements to HCA on March 18, 1965 for $10.00.

HCA is also registered as a U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code Section 501(c)(4) tax exempt civic organization with net earnings devoted only to charitable, educational, or recreational  purposes.  More specifically, HCA is a membership organization formed by a real estate developer to own and maintain common green areas, streets and sidewalks, and to enforce covenants to preserve the appearance of the development, operated for the benefit  of all the residents of the community.

Within HCA Revised Bylaws adopted by the Board of Directors on November 3, 1993, Article II, Section 1 states that membership in the Corporation is composed of " ... All persons owning of record any Lot, with or without improvements of a dwelling unit or townhouse ... on the property shown within Hickory Cluster ... ."

According to Revised Bylaws Article IV, Section 1, "The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by its Directors. ... ."  And according to Bylaws Article IV, Section 2, "The election of Directors by members of the Corporation shall be held at the annual meeting held in May each year."

Early HCA Directors were listed in the Hickory Cluster Handbook, First Edition, published in 1975.  
 
For more on the HCA 1964 Articles of Incorporation, 1993 Amendments and Bylaws, Special and General Resolutions, and other artifacts, see the Governing Documents page on this website.