Asbury Manor-CS090331
(12/18/2009) Ken Griffin - Re: Asbury Manor HOA meetingPage 1
From: Clay Phillips
To:kbury99@aol.com
Date: 3/31/2009 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: Asbury Manor HOA meeting
Larry,
I actually thought we had already provided the necessary paperwork to have the drainage channel deeded to the City. I
will check on that.
Staff is in the process of contacting The Mansions this week regarding the other items (drainage north of Westminster and
trees).
The City continues to work on gas well drilling ordinance revisions. At this time, there is no active, pending application
before the City. I expect the Council may adopt revisions at the April 14 council meeting. The provisions will most likely
increase the distance requiring a public hearing to 1,000 and strengthen noise mitigation requirements, along with some
clarification of habitable structure vs occupied. The last change will include al structures whether occupied or not at the
time of a permit application.
>>> <kbury99@aol.com> 3/30/2009 12:26 PM >>>
Clay -
The annual meeting of the Asbury Manor HOA is scheduled for April 30th. I have been asked to circle back to you on
several issues which will be discussed with our homeowners that evening. If you can, I would like to get an
update/resolution on as many of these as you can help me with before the meeting.
(1) The stone masonry drainage easement south of Westminster Way. We would like to deed that structure/property back
to the city as it is most unusual for such structures to be owned by a small HOA, such as ours. As stated previously, when
the property was developed and all of us original homeowners bought our homes, the plan for that structure was much less
complicated, would have required much less maintenance, and bore far less liability risk to our HOA, in the event of a
possible failure, than does the current structure. We need to have that risk removed. City maintenance of the structure is
the minimum position, from our perspective. Liability, ongoing, is the far greater issue.
(2) The drainage easement north of Westminster Way is a mess. This area has become a collection of pools of standing
water, ripe as breeding grounds for insects. Well over a year ago, we meet with you and city staff to discuss our willingness
to pay our pro rata share of a dredging of this easement. Your staff was going to work this out with The Mansions, but to
date, we have heard nothing more about this. Mosquito breeding season is nearly upon us, so we need to move forward
with this project.
(3) Missing trees on The Mansions section of the drainage easement. You will remember all the dead/dying/missing trees
on The Mansions section of the easement down around the ponds. This problem has been significantly increased in the last
six months by someone's malicious cutting down of nearly a dozen crepe myrtle trees. The were chopped down with an axe
or hatchet and left lying all around. Most likely children. In any event, all the Mansions has done was to have someone take
a chain saw and cut the stumps down to ground level. This area is now at least 60% denuded of the trees and shrubs
called for in the development plans. If?our homeowners?have to take care of their walls along the easement?for them, then
they, at the very least, should be required to maintain mandated vegetation there.
(4) An update on Chesapeake drill plans and the city's new drilling ordinance
If you could help me with information on these, Clay, it would be appreciated. Our group has recently amended our CC&Rs
to allow the Board of Directors some architectural controls, so we are very interested in the upkeep of our properties and
issues that affect them. Having information on all of the above will help us to keep our homeowners informed and keep
things over here moving in the right direction.
Thanks.
Larry Kingsbury