The Office will be closed on Monday, April 2nd.
We will be open the following day.
Carrier Parkway Low Water Crossing Gates
Approach the Gate, Wait, Evacuate Automated low water crossing gates have been installed on Carrier Parkway between Dickey Road on the north and Phillips Court to the south. The gates will lower to block northbound and southbound traffic on Carrier Parkway when Cottonwood Creek floods over the road near McFalls Park West. The gates have flashing lights and emit a warning sound as they lower.
If you get caught between the gates while traveling between Dickey Road and Phillips Court, stay calm.
Approach the Gate – Slowly drive toward the closed gate until a sensor on the closed gate is triggered
Wait – Wait for the gate to rise
Evacuate – Continue driving away from the floodwater
The gate will open for you, and close back again once you have passed through. For more information about the Carrier Parkway low water crossing gates, call 972-237-8321 or email sgriffin@gptx.org.
We have had 2 reports of bicycles being stolen on East Townhouse Lane, a little over a month apart.
One was chained under the carport and the lock was cut off. The latest one was taken from the back yard of the property.
I have notified the Police and asked that they do more patrols in that area.
If you see someone suspicious lurking around, please call the Police.
We each must take action if we want to stop this.
The results of the 2018 Annual Meeting last evening are as follows:
Jerry Hopper was re-elected to another 3 year term, with 44 votes. No one ran against him for this one Board position.
Board Officers remain the same.
Oncor’s subcontractors were on the East side (East MC Court area) for a little over a week and appear to have completed the work they were doing.
As a result, there are piles of dirt near the transformers and other areas they excavated and a lot of the grass isn’t there now.
They will be sending out another crew to take care of this over the next few weeks or so. They have replanted the grass on previous visits here and returned things to as they found them.
We will start off the 2018 mowing season next week.
Mowing will start on the West side on Tuesday, March 13th,
and the East side on Wednesday, March 14th.
We will have a work crew on East Mountain Creek Court tomorrow, as evidenced by the equipment they staged this evening (right). The machine to the right is a Ditch Witch type machine, so they can insert conduits (electrical piping) between the transformers along the East MC Court area and connect to East MC Drive. They will be all over the area and it will be somewhat loud.
The object of installing underground conduit is to make the cable changes between transformers much easier than having to trench them all up as they have done previously.
The 2018 Painting schedule is 2 thru 54 West Creek Lane, and 1 thru 69 West Mountain Creek Drive. This is a total of 62 townhouses.
We do required repairs, then notify residents prior to power washing so they can move things away from the house.
On Friday, we were informed of an animal attack on West Townhouse Lane, near the pool area, at about 3AM. Most of the animals in the woods are nocturnal, but I have seen a large opossum wandering around in daylight. So far, my Border Collie-Springer Spaniel mix has killed 2 juvenile possums that were in my back yard; he still checks out the tree every time he goes out in the yard. He does not like possums, it seems, or birds sitting on the fence.
No one is sure which one of the critter in the woods was responsible for the attack; some say it was a coyote, but we do know that a cat was attacked and crawled into the pool area and expired. Animal Control was called to remove the deceased cat.
Anyone who allows their cat to roam the property needs to be aware that there are large enough animals in the woods capable of causing severe damage to your pets. This is another reason to keep dogs on a leash and under your control. We cannot be sure it was not a stray dog or one that residents allow to roam free and unattended. However, it is more likely it was a wild animal. As the weather warms up, we will see more wild animals on property.
The moral of this story is to keep your pets indoors at night. If you do see any critters wandering our property, call GP Animal Services, (972) 237-8575