During a Zoom meeting last week, homeowners asked questions and provided feedback about the Streetscape Plan, a master landscaping plan for the community's common areas.

"The beauty of it again is, because it's a master plan, you don't have to do it all at once," said Jeffrey Denzak, an architect from Swaback, the firm preparing the plan. "By doing a master plan, you can have confidence that those capital investments that you make in the short term, they'll add value and won't become haphazard to things that you might want to do then in two years or five years."

The goal of the plan is to update the look and feel of the community’s street frontages, entrances, islands and clubhouse area with a consistent look. This will re-enforce Sincuidados' identity as a natural open space community.

"All these little things we think add value in terms of at the end of the day to your individual real estate," Jeffrey said.

The architect discussed the goal of enhancing the community by ensuring it blends with the desert environment's natural character.

Thank you to the following homeowners for taking part in Scottsdale Adopt-A-Road, a city effort to keep streets clean and scenic: Maddy Kostyra, Shelley Helberg, Becky Small, Toni Logan, Jean Conway, Trish Carroll, DeBacco family, Floyd Russell and Robin Wargo. To learn more about Scottsdale Adopt-A-Road, click here.

Sincuidados homeowner Lynne Russell shot this photo of a Harris’s Antelope Squirrel. Lynne is a McDowell Sonoran Conservancy board member.

"Sincuidados is the ideal habitat for our little Harris’s Antelope Squirrels," Lynne said. "They prefer rocky desert habitats replete with shrubs and cacti. They live in underground burrows beneath our natural desert shrubs and trees. They enjoy cacti fruit and seeds as well as insects, mesquite beans and occasionally a mouse. We don’t know how they manage to avoid the sharp cacti spines as they savor the tasty fruit."

The City of Scottsdale's website shows starting November 1, Sincuidados' recycling collection day will change to Wednesday and trash collection day will change to Friday. The city's website states, "This change will improve efficiency and make it easier to process recyclables." For more information, click here.