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From fairway-view lots to shaded older yards near Cypress Creek, we build fences that suit each Champions neighborhood and its deed restrictions.

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About Champions

How Champions Grew Up Around a Golf Club

Champions covers 77066, 77068 and 77069 on both sides of FM 1960, and we install and repair fences on streets throughout the area.

The area takes its name from Champions Golf Club, which Jack Burke Jr. and Jimmy Demaret opened in 1957. Burke told Community Impact that the partners bought roughly 1,500 acres near what was then Jackrabbit Road, kept about 500 for golf and sold the rest to developers. FM 1960 is that old Jackrabbit Road. The club went on to host the 1967 Ryder Cup and the 1969 U.S. Open, and the subdivisions grew up around its two courses.

The Society of Architectural Historians describes Champions as a group of subdivisions strung along Cypress Creek and centered on the club. The creek and the ditches feeding it shape many fence decisions here.

Rules

County Permits, Deed Restrictions and the ACC

The neighborhoods on this page sit outside Houston city limits, so fences fall under Harris County rather than the city. The Harris County Engineering permit FAQ says no permit is required for a residential fence outside the special flood hazard area. Inside that mapped area, the county counts a fence as development, and a permit is required. Your HCAD record confirms which government covers your lot, and our permits by jurisdiction guide covers the details.

The bigger hurdle is usually the association. Most subdivisions here are deed restricted, each with its own architectural control committee (ACC). Examples from the documents we checked:

Champion Forest gives its ACC up to 30 days on a complete application and often asks for a survey plat.
The Champions Park ACC form asks for the fence material, type and color, with a stain chip or swatch attached.
The original Champions sections share one restated set of restrictions covering six recorded sections.

We prepare the drawing, material specs and stain color for the packet, and we can apply for a county permit where one is needed. See our HOA fencing guide for how that works.

Site Conditions

Cypress Creek, Ditches and Clay

Much of this area drains to Cypress Creek. Before we set a fence line near a ditch, a detention pond or the creek side of a lot, we look at two things: whether the lot is in a mapped floodplain, and whether part of the yard is a drainage easement. You can check your own lot on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center. Our flood zone and easement guide explains why a fence on a flood control easement can be ordered removed.

The ground is the usual North Houston clay, which swells when wet and shrinks in drought. That movement is why we set wood fence posts at least 24 inches deep with 80 lb of concrete, and deeper for taller fences and gate posts. Our guide on why posts fail in clay soil goes further.

Housing Eras

Four Decades of Fences

Building here spans roughly fifty years. The original Champions sections were built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, and Champion Forest broke ground in 1976. Cashel Forest finished building out in 1993. Northgate Forest kept adding homes until about 2010, and Champions Crossing wrapped up in 2011.

That spread changes the work. In the older sections we mostly replace tired wood fences, often for the second or third time, and work around large trees. In the newer subdivisions the first builder fences are now aging out, and many of them run along shared lot lines. We can invoice each neighbor separately or break out the cost of the shared run, which our property line fence guide covers.

Neighborhoods

Champions Area Neighborhoods We Serve

Champion Forest

A 1976 development on former farmland between Cypresswood and Louetta, designated a bird sanctuary in 1980. Section One bans chain link outright.

Northgate Forest

Built around Northgate Country Club, a 1983 Bruce Devlin and Robert von Hagge course near FM 1960 and TC Jester. Course-side lots raise their own fence questions.

Champions Park

A self-managed HOA in 77069 with its own clubhouse, pool and tennis courts. Its ACC form asks for a stain chip with every fence request.

Olde Oaks

About 1,455 homes along T.C. Jester Boulevard in 77068, sharing a border with the Northgate Country Club course. Its improvement association has handled architectural control since 1976.

Champions (original sections)

The first Champions subdivisions wrap the golf club. A 2023 management certificate filed with the state lists Champions East, North, Northwest, South, West and Champions Way under the Champions Community Improvement Association, managed by Graham Management, with one restated set of restrictions. Community Impact lists a 1981 build-out and the Champions MUD as the utility district. Lots that back up to either course usually call for ornamental aluminum or steel so the view stays open, while interior lots tend to get cedar privacy fences.

Cashel Forest

Cashel Forest is a small subdivision of about 130 homes near FM 1960 and Wunderlich Drive, according to Community Impact, which puts its build-out at 1993 and its utility district at Harris County MUD 48. Even the last fences built in that phase are now more than thirty years old, which usually makes a full replacement the better value than another round of board swaps.

Champions Crossing

Champions Crossing in 77066 is one of the newest neighborhoods in the area: 380 single-family homes near Bourgeois Road and Hollister Street, finished in 2011 per Community Impact. HAR lists a median lot of about 5,500 square feet, so most backyards share fence lines on three sides. The first fences there are now 15 to 20 years old, about when posts set in clay start to lean.

Huntwick Forest

Huntwick Forest homeowners share a recreation center, pool, tennis courts and pickleball courts run by Harris County WCID 116 at 5300 Coral Gables Drive. For a fence on a lot that borders the district’s grounds, we confirm the property line from a survey before we dig.

FAQ

Champions Fencing Questions

Do I need a permit for a fence in the Champions area?

Usually not from the county. Harris County does not require a permit for a residential fence outside the special flood hazard area, but it does inside it. Your HOA approval is a separate step, and you need it either way.

Can I fence the back of a golf-course lot?

Often yes, but the association decides the style and height. Most course-side lots we see call for open ornamental aluminum or steel. Bring us your deed restrictions or ACC guidelines and we will design to them.

My lot backs up to a ditch. Can the fence go to the back line?

Not always. If a drainage easement crosses the back of the lot, a fence there can be ordered removed. We check the plat or survey for easements before we set the line.

Find Us

Service Area Map: Champions

We cover Champions in 77066, 77068 and 77069. Not sure if your address is in range? Call 281-973-3884 and we’ll confirm.

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