We are lucky enough to live in a community that has beautiful common areas. All homeowners jointly own the areas around the community and they are available for all property owners to use. By use, we mean to take a walk and play but not for prolonged personal use. Most of our common land is located behind homes and in some areas it isn’t clear how to access it without going through your neighbor’s yard. Please don’t use your neighbor’s yard to access the common land. There are designated pass-throughs from a street to all of our common property that are part of the common property. Please use these designated areas. There aren’t signs marking them and many don’t know where they are located. To help you, we plan to publish a map on the HOA website showing you where these lands are and how to access them. The area we have had the most questions about is the common land between Tourmaline Ct. and Olivine way. The public entrances are located at the Tourmaline Ct. dry pond, between 12930 and 12926 Olivine Way, between 12918 and 12912 Aventurine Way and between 1920 and 1924 Olivine Way. Please stay off of your neighbor’s property when accessing common areas. Also, please remember to clean up after your pets and yourself.

It has been many years since the HOA approved the installation of white PVC fences and have had no comments about them until the last summer. The HOA has recently been in discussions with community members about the approval of White PVC stockade fences. Today there are a number of white PVC fences in the development and there are some who believe that long stretches of white fence detract from the wooded setting of our neighborhood. The BOD has modified the approval of these fences. If we receive a request to install a white stockage fence in an area where there is an adjoining white fence, the HOA will begin discussions with the homeowner to potentially install a brown stockade fence or wood fence. We will report back to you next year on how this is going.