The new fence on West Creek has been up for less than a week and so far, 2 vehicles have come into contact with it. Both vehicles, as best we can tell, are from rental properties on that street. You would think that a street 20 feet wide was plenty of room within which to back out a car and drive away.
Open Board Meeting, February 5th, at 7 PM in the Association Office
- Agenda for the meeting: (Subject to change)
- Approve the October and November 2014 Financial Reports
- New Roofing for Association Buildings
- Parking Permits, do we need them?
- Doing our own Financial reports
- Discuss charging residents on West Creek for backing into the new fence
- Executive Meeting to Follow
As stated in the December 2014 Notice, we have begun enforcement of our Visitor Parking rules, as adopted by the Board around 15 years ago. We tow vehicles parked in our Visitor Lots for over 48 hours and have done so. We will issue only one more warning to residents who continue to abuse the Visitor Lots and should they continue, they will be towed at Owner or Operator expense. The Visitor lots are for those who visit this property, not addition free parking for those who refuse park in their own carports, have more than 2 cars or who want to park a trailer under their carport and park their vehicles in Visitor lots.
The Visitors Lots within the subdivision belong to the Association, are Private Property, and are controlled by Parking Rules approved by the Board of Directors and which are published on this website.
As most of our homeowners are now aware, the HOA’s Declaration (CC&R) requires proof that you have a “cost to replace” policy on your home. This level of insurance has been a requirement of our Declaration since this subdivision came into being in 1970 or 1971. To date, about 75% of our 416 homeowners have responded and provided the documents requested. We did sent out Warning letters on January 2nd to those who have not provided requisite documentation and giving them 15 days within which to provide it. Last week, we started sending out certified letters to some of these individuals indicating they will be fined, per our Fines and Enforcement Policy, for not providing this information as required by our Declaration. Some throw out these Warning notices, which does not change the fact that they were sent out.
Just to be clear, Renters Insurance and Condominium Insurance does not meet the requirements. Actual cash value insurance is also inadequate. Homeowners must have full replacement coverage for the dwelling itself.
We will be sending out another group of certified Fine letters to the those homeowners who have still not provided the documents which have been requested more than 3 times.
We have what appears to be a repeat of recent illegal dumping, and perhaps the same individual doing it. It was reported to the City Code Enforcement office and they will be out today to have a look at the site. The location of recent dumping is along the woods on West Townhouse Lane. The offending vehicle was a white F-150 pickup, and a resident did get the license plate. According to the city employee we spoke with, the plate comes back to a pickup from the Cedar Hill or Desoto area.
If anyone has surveillance video of the junction of West Townhouse/West Mountain Creek Drive or saw this vehicle dumping on private property, please call the Office.
Below is the Excalibur Towing signs that are displayed at all 14 entrances into the Private Property that is our subdivision. (Click for a larger image)
We signed with Dave’s Hiway Wrecker back in June of 2014. As a result of their City contract, slow response times and other issues, we decided to terminate the service agreement we had with them effective today, January 25th. We went back with Excalibur Towing, a company the Association had used from 2009 until 2014.
The reason we stopped using Excalibur is that they were told by our former “Office Manager” that they had permission to go under carports to check for expired registration or inspections. Many of you may remember this fiasco, as mentioned by several homeowners at a few Board meetings. All carports are Private Property and only the City can tow from under a carport after giving proper notifications. Overall, Excalibur did a really good job patrolling our subdivision and only due to unauthorized instructions by a former employee did things go wrong.
Over the next few days, Excalibur will be replacing all of the Tow company signs at all entrances and will begin patrols overnight and throughout the day. They have been given specific written instructions to never go under any carports, for any reason.
They will give 10-15 minutes for people loading or unloading while parked in the Fire Lanes to move their vehicles prior to towing them. Excalibur will patrol the Visitor Parking lots and will enforce our 48 Hour time limits after tagging vehicles; removing these tags will not change anything, they take photos after tagging vehicles. Excalibur will immediately tow vehicles that are parked in our Visitor lots that have expired tags or inspections stickers.
Signs has been recently updated to assure that both visitors and residents are aware of the time limits and other restrictions we have on our Visitor lots.
It seems we have some individuals who believe they can move the barricades on the newly paved sections and drive on them. This has happened 3 or 4 times already. Anyone driving on this barricaded concrete and causing any damage to it will have a heavy price to pay. This section of roadway cost the Association over $30,000 and we have no problem charging a homeowner, tenant or visitor for damaging this or any Association property.
I would recommend that those individuals moving these barricades leave them alone and in place until Monday, the 26th, just like previous posts have indicated. To do otherwise may prove expensive.