点评:Potential buyers for homes in Sun City, Georgetown, Texas, BEWARE. I have lived in Sun City (SC) since 2019 and I like living here, but recent issues with the overdevelopment of Sun City have become problematic and threaten to ruin the community. I just attended a SC Board Meeting on 11/5/2026 to find out more information and everything I have learned is detrimental to SC. When you talk to residents who live here, you will consistently hear that the salespeople employed by the sole developer and builder (Pulte) told them that Sun City would be complete when 10,000 homes were built. The completion of SC would mean that the developer (Pulte) would turn over the community assets and management of SC to the residents. SC now has more than 10,000 homes and Pulte is building even more homes with no end in sight. Pulte has sole control over the management of SC as long as they are still developing. Residents who purchased homes in the two newest areas have been assessed additional taxes for roads and highways and for Municipal Utility Districts which have increased their annual taxes by thousands of dollars. Those residents are saying they were not informed of these additional costs, did not vote for them and they are understandably upset. These are long term costs that will affect them for many years to come. Pulte did not inform existing residents or potential buyers that they would be building more homes beyond the 10,000 and we found out without any opportunity for input. They are ruining the landscaping for the new areas by removing all of the mature trees. Increasing the number of homes in SC will also mean that existing recreational resources will be overcrowded as there are already issues with access and Pulte is not building sufficient additional facilities for the increased population. A meeting before the Georgetown City Council regarding requests from Pulte for additional homes was to be held a week ago and Pulte pulled the item once SC residents began protesting and contacting the City Council. The agenda item will appear on a future City Council meeting when Pulte asks for it to be on the agenda. Repeated requests to Pulte for open meetings to discuss the situation have gone unanswered. Requests for prior legal documents have not been addressed by Pulte, so residents have obtained them through Open Records Requests to the City of Georgetown. The only communications that have been sent to SC residents are emails that have tried to dissuade everyone from protesting and airing their concerns to the elected officials in Georgetown and potentially Williamson County. The current situation is very concerning because all of the actions and inactions by Pulte show no concern for the welfare of the actual residents of SC. If you are considering buying here, I challenge you to get written, legal commitments from Pulte that the development has a hard cap on the number of homes that will be in SC. Unfortunately, I have no trust that you will be able to do so and I would not purchase a home here under the current circumstances. There have already been over 1,600 residents who have signed a petition voicing these concerns and that petition was delivered at the Board Meeting. Until this is resolved with written commitments that can be legally enforced, you are taking an unknown risk as to what the future holds for SC both in quality of life and the expenses required to live here.
翻译:德克萨斯州乔治敦市太阳城的潜在购房者们,请务必小心。我自2019年起便居住在太阳城,也很喜欢这里的生活环境。然而最近,太阳城的过度开发问题日益严重,已经对整个社区构成了威胁。11月5日,我参加了太阳城管理委员会的会议以了解更多情况,结果得知的信息全都是对太阳城不利的。当你与这里的居民交谈时……人们经常会听到这样的说法:由唯一的开发商和建筑商普尔特所雇佣的销售人员告诉他们,只有当1万套房屋建成后,太阳城才算完工。太阳城完工意味着开发商普尔特会将社区的资产及管理权移交给居民。如今,太阳城的房屋数量早已超过1万套,而普尔特仍在持续建房,且并无停手之意。只要仍在开发阶段,普尔特便对太阳城拥有完全的管理控制权。在两个最新开发的住宅区购房的居民被征收了额外的道路与公路建设税,以及市政公用事业区税,这些税费使得他们的年度开支增加了数千美元。这些居民表示,他们事先并未被告知这些额外费用,也从未投票赞成征收这些税费,因此感到非常不满。这些费用属于长期负担,将在未来多年内持续影响他们。普尔特公司并未告知现有居民或潜在买家,他们会在原定10,000套房屋的规划基础上继续增建更多住宅;我们是在没有任何发表意见机会的情况下才得知此事的。他们砍掉了所有成熟的树木,严重破坏了新开发区域的景观环境。在南卡罗来纳州增加住宅数量还会导致现有的娱乐设施过度拥挤——目前这些设施的使用就已经存在诸多问题;而普尔特公司并未为新增人口建设足够的配套设施。一周前,乔治敦市议会原定要召开会议,讨论普尔特公司增加住宅建设的请求。但在南卡罗来纳州的居民开始抗议并联系市议会后,普尔特公司撤回了该申请。日后只要普尔特公司提出申请,这一议程就会再次出现在市议会的讨论列表中。尽管多次要求普尔特公司召开公开会议以讨论相关事宜,但均未得到回应。此外,对于索取相关法律文件的请求,普尔特公司也一直置之不理。这些资料是居民们通过向乔治城市提交公开记录请求而获得的。发给南卡罗来纳州居民的唯一沟通方式就是电子邮件,这些邮件试图劝阻大家不要进行抗议,也不要向乔治城市及威廉姆森县的民选官员表达自己的诉求。当前局势令人担忧,因为普尔特集团的所有作为与不作为都显示出其完全漠视南卡罗来纳州居民的切身利益。如果您正考虑在此购房,我恳请您要求Pulte公司出具书面且具有法律效力的承诺,保证该开发项目在南卡罗来纳州建设的房屋数量设有上限。遗憾的是,我并不确信您能做到这一点;在当前情况下,我是不会在此购房的。目前已有1,600多名居民签署了表达此类担忧的请愿书,该请愿书也已在董事会会议上提交。在达成具有法律强制力的书面承诺之前,您实际上是在承担未知的风险——即未来SC地区的生活质量以及在此生活的各项开支将会如何发展。