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Homeowner Directory: Homeowners have missed the SMVE homeowner directory last published in 2012. Now, a new SMVE Homeowner Directory is available on our website, where you can look up names or addresses online or print your own copy if you wish. We expect to update this directory throughout the year so new homeowners and any changes will be included quickly. Just click on the Directory button above to see the new directory page. Click here to read more about the directory and how to be added or to change your listing. For those of you without internet access, a printed copy will be available early in 2017.
Please join me in thanking Pam Negri for her work in collecting information for the directory from homeowners.
Website Improvements: You’ll see several other improvements to our website. A new Calendar page shows both social events and meetings homeowners are welcome to attend. The cumbersome login procedure has been changed. Just enter the username and password in the box on the right side of any page and click on the Login button. You no longer need to login on a separate page and then figure out how to get back to the page you wanted to see. Finally, the menu buttons at the top and side of each page have been re-arranged to emphasize the pages of most interest to homeowners.
Gratitude: I also want to thank the homeowners who have notified us of problems needing attention. With 238 homeowners, your 400 pairs of eyes see things we miss, or aren’t there to see. Whether it is a water leak, garage door left open, a damaged sidewalk, a problem tree, pool problems, or anything else requiring attention, please call any Board member. We will pass your report to the proper person to take care of the issue.
Roads: Over the next nine months, you will see the first installment on major road improvements. This winter a pavement contractor will fill the cracks in the roads. Crack filling helps extend the life of the roads by preventing water from getting underneath the asphalt, where it weakens the base and eventually leads to pavement failure. Crack filling should be a minor inconvenience as it will require street parking be avoided for some hours in different areas so the cracks can be accessed. The entire project is expected to take about two days. We’ll provide full information later.
The biggest project is to repave Paseo Otoño and Via Sempreverde from Paseo Otoño up to the first set of mailboxes. Paseo Otoño is failing and developing potholes, so is in urgent need of reconstruction. This work is tentatively planned for May, 2017. We expect to close the Paseo Otoño entrance from Sunrise for as long as a week. You will need to enter and leave the HOA via Territory rather than Sunrise. The parking lot in front of the pool will be closed during construction. We will be contacting all homeowners as we get nearer to the project date and the complete scope of the project is known.
Finally, all the roads will have a seal coat added in June. Sealing the roads is an important step in maintaining the roads and extending their life and needs to be done about every four years. As homeowners who have been here during previous road sealing projects, this is a major inconvenience to all homeowners. An entire lane of each road must be closed for 24 hours, and traffic patterns have to be adjusted to allow the closures. The sealing project will require several days, as we rotate the lane closures through all roads. We schedule this work for June, as there are fewer homeowners in residence and so fewer inconvenienced. As we get closer to the project date, we’ll let everyone know the closure and traffic control plan.
After these projects, the next repaving is anticipated to be Via Velazquez from Paseo Otoño to the central set of mailboxes. The condition of the roads over the next years will determine what we repave and when.
Dogs: You’ve read our articles about dog poop before and we thank you for picking up after your dog. But now we are getting reports from Via Sempreverde that unknown persons, after picking up after their dog and placing the debris in a plastic bag, leave the bag in a driveway or throw it into the bushes in front yards instead of taking it home and disposing of it properly in the trash! If you see someone doing that, please ask them to dispose of their bag properly.
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