Annual HOA fees paid by homeowners fund an annual $2.5 million budget, which goes toward maintenance of playgrounds; a tot lot; tennis, basketball and beach volleyball courts; four pools and a pool house; walking trails; a community center; and private security.

[3] Except for condominiums, which have their own board of directors, each neighborhood has a committee with up to three members (elected at the annual RCA meeting).

[5] Russett is bordered by the Little Patuxent River and 70 acres (280,000 m2) of wetlands within the Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve, which attracts waterfowl and other birds.

[7] Also adjacent to Russett, along its southwestern borders, is an undisturbed 78-acre (320,000 m2) land parcel owned by the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.

Completed in 1998, The Maryland City at Russett Branch is more than 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) – or four times the size of its shuttered predecessor – with an initial collection of 80,000 items.