Berkeley Walk News
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friendly reminder:
Our covenants enforcement officer (CEO) has been making bimonthly rounds, and based upon the number of citations our situation has improved significantly. Basically, we have issues with weeds, old mailbox maintenance, satellite dishes and cars parked on the road and/or driveways. On the latter, the CEO has been asked to hold back the citations pending further comments below.
Satellite dishes
The board understands the need to have an alternative to the cable. However, the covenants provide strict guidelines (No. 14) on satellite dishes. Unfortunately, some of these guidelines would make it impossible for some homeowners given geographic exposure issues related to signal reception.
Therefore, we would like to make the following sensible requests. If you have no other choice than to install a satellite dish visible from the road, you must use your best effort to screen it from view with natural landscaping. Also, any satellite dish is considered an exterior modification and requires prior approval by the Covenants Committee. For your recollection regarding guideline 14:
- Satellite Dish must be no larger than 18 inches
- If ground mounted, must be screened from view by natural landscaping (no lattice). Any cables must be buried
- No front yard mounting
- If mounted on home, must be mounted on rear of home and within the sidelines of home so as not to be visible from street
- No roof top mounting
- Color of satellite dish will be reviewed.
Parked Vehicles
The covenants are also strict about restricting any vehicles parked on the streets, common property and driveways (Article VI, Section 4 and Guideline 12). In particular you are not allowed to have any trailers, boats, camper etc. parked for longer than 24 hours on your driveway. If you own more cars than you have garage space, you may park them in the driveway provided they are moved every 24 hours. We have noticed that many cars are not parked in the garages although space is available. Starting May, our CEO will be citing parking violations.
Please remember that cars should not be parked close to the intersections as they cause safety hazards. In general, street overnight parking is forbidden.
We are trying our best to sensibly enforce the rules of our community. As always we do welcome your feedback -- positive and negative. Covenants enforcement is quite a thankless job, and in particular, we usually receive only negative comments. we would hope that there is a silent majority out there who applauds our efforts!
POOL PARTY & QUARTERLY MEETING
Sunday, May 18 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
click on meeting minutes (Microsoft Word document) to view.The location is obviously the pool and clubhouse. Lunch and refreshments in the form of hot dogs/hamburgers/soft drinks/beer/chips/sweets etc will be served.
Our party committee has planned lots of games for the whole family. This is a great opportunity to socialize and meet the neighbors. For further questions, please contact Jay Boetcher at JABTLBCNB@aol.com
The new pool furniture has arrived and we outfitted the gates with new number locks to make access for you easier. In a separate e-mail I will inform you off the key code, which will be changed every once in a while. This year's head of the pool committee is Paige Turkia. She can be reached at JnPTurkia@cs.com
Quarterly Homeowner meeting
Berkeley Walk Clubhouse 4:30 pm to 6:30 pmAgenda
1. State of the Walk
- Summary of achievements
- Financial update
- Covenant update
- Committees
- Directory2. Citizen's Concerns