What Ridge Lakes is like
Ridge Lakes, also searched for as Ridge Lakes of Heath, is a custom-home subdivision on the east side of Heath in Rockwall County. A City of Heath hearing notice places it on the south side of Rabbit Ridge Road, between FM 549 and Rabbit Ridge Road. The number that defines it: 95 residential lots on about 109 acres, which works out to an average lot of 0.89 acre on the concept plan.
How it was approved
Darren Mabry of Talus Development Group, LLC applied to rezone the land from Agricultural to Planned Development. A July 2014 notice described 108 lots; the plan heard by the Planning and Zoning Commission on November 10, 2014 and the City Council on November 18, 2014 had 95. The city's notice gives the tract as 109.60 acres in the A. Rodriguez Survey, and the concept plan drawing dated October 2014 gives 109.25 acres. Later city notices cite the result as the Ridge Lakes Planned Development, Ordinance No. 141118A.
Lots and the two lakes
The concept plan lists an average lot of 0.89 acre, a smallest lot of 0.51 acre and a largest of 2.24 acres, with 46 of the 95 lots over one acre. It splits the lots into two types: lots labeled A follow the city's SF-43 rules and lots labeled B follow SF-22. Residential lots take up 84.91 acres. Another 9.07 acres are two common area tracts of 6.60 and 2.47 acres, each around an existing lake, and the plan says the homeowners association owns and maintains them. Candy's Dirt, the Dallas real estate news site, described the neighborhood in August 2018 as having trails, a park area, two lakes with water features, underground utilities and a 4,000 square foot minimum home size.
Phases and builders
The concept plan marks 52 lots as Phase 1 and 43 as Phase 2. The Phase One final plat was recorded in Rockwall County on July 5, 2016, per the association's management certificate. The Phase Two final plat, 43 lots on 41.321 acres, was on the City Council agenda for November 8, 2022; we found the agenda and not the minutes. City notices name Lodge Hill Drive, Sunrise Ridge Drive and Rustic Ridge Drive as streets in Phase One. Homes are custom builds. Candy's Dirt reported in 2018 that Rick Shipley Custom Homes bought four waterfront lots, the Dallas Builders Association featured a Mabry Custom Homes house here, and Meredith Custom Homes lists homesites from 0.5 to more than 1.4 acres.
The HOA
The association is Ridge Lakes Homeowners Association, Inc. Its management certificate, filed December 27, 2021, names PMI Alliance of Flower Mound as manager and cites a First Amended and Restated Declaration recorded May 23, 2017 and amended November 25, 2020. We did not find the dues on a developer, builder or newspaper page, so the figure comes from the resale certificate. No public page we read describes the subdivision as gated.
Schools
Ridge Lakes is in Rockwall ISD. On the district's attendance zone map effective for the 2026-2027 school year, Lodge Hill Drive falls in the Dorothy Smith Pullen Elementary zone, inside the Maurine Cain Middle School boundary. That is our reading of a color map; the district does not publish a street list. The district's own history page says Rockwall-Heath High School serves all students south of Interstate 30. Zones are drawn by street and change, and the district answers address questions through its attendance zone inquiry form.
What the city record adds
The planned development caps a guest house at 900 square feet; in May 2023 the Planning and Zoning Commission denied without prejudice a request for a 1,239 square foot guest house on Lodge Hill Drive. In February 2018 the City Council minutes described a future four-lane concrete roadway and water line on Rabbit Ridge Road from south of FM 550 to the Ridge Lakes Addition. We found no public improvement district or municipal utility district in the city documents we read; the tax certificate lists the taxing units for a lot.
We sell in Heath and can pull the sold history for Ridge Lakes, by phase and lot size. The figures at the top of this page are Realtor.com's for Heath as a whole, not this neighborhood alone.