The Trailwood Hills Home Owners Association, located in a quiet, family residential area in Raleigh, North Carolina, recently posted their August board meeting update to their website, trailwoodhills.com. The post mainly discusses pool card access and beautification to their common areas. The update also talks about pursuing additional parking restrictions to increase safety in their neighborhood.
Students, welcome to the neighborhood! We hope you have a successful Fall 2009 Semester. Move-in weekend was busy around N.C. State’s campus and we know that you’re probably busy getting things in order for classes. We wanted to take a few minutes to provide you with some essential information that could make your living experience in our neighborhoods safe, enjoyable, and friendly.
- Be a good neighbor and keep the noise down. Make sure your guests know this is a family neighborhood. It will make things a lot easier on everyone that lives here. We’re sure that you also appreciate a nice, quiet environment to study in.
A lot of people live in this area because they love the location. We are convenient to NCSU, downtown, I-40, and have great shopping close-by. We also enjoy a great quality of life and a broad diversity of neighbors.
All of our neighborhoods have sidewalks on major streets which are great for exercising. We recently got new crosswalks along Lineberry Drive after requesting them back in January 2009. If you travel along Trailwood Drive, you’ve probably noticed our new traffic signal, it’s nice to have those improvements at that intersection.
Thanks to Sheryl (Trailwood Hills), Danielle (Whitehurst Townhomes), Merri Beth (Pleasant Ridge & Ramsgate), and Chad (Trailwood Springs) for contributing to this post.
On June 1, 2009, the Lineberry Alliance held a meeting to discuss real estate opportunities in our area. For reference, our area is South of I-40, West of Lake Wheeler Road, North of Tryon Road, and East of Trailwood Drive. Lineberry Drive connects almost all of our neighborhoods together. At the meeting were neighbors from Camden Crossings, Whitehurst Townhomes, Trailwood Springs, Trailwood Hills, and Pleasant Ridge & Ramsgate. We were lucky to have Realtor Louise Griffin a friend from the Wade CAC join us, along with South West CAC Chair Mary Belle Pate and District D City Councilor Thomas Crowder. The meeting notes and agenda are below: (more…)
Raleigh, NC — Trailwood Hills HOA recently posted an update from their board meeting held on May 12, 2009. The board is interested in making some beautification enhancements to their entrances but also posted information about new pool rules.
The update stated:
“The new pool keys are being distributed and the system will be in place for the pool opening Memorial weekend. The Board decided that the fining process for the pool with respect to having a dog in the pool area and having glass in the pool area will be a warning letter for the first offense, a $100 fine for the second offense, and loss of pool privileges for the third offense.”
The update also mentioned a pool party slotted for July 18, 2009 that aims to bring the neighbors together in a festive gathering to meet one another. Last years pool party was a great success. You can find out more about Trailwood Hills at trailwoodhills.com.
The message is getting out: Trailwood Hills HOA is serious about quality of life issues that impact their residents. Monday May 4, 2009 was just like any other day in Trailwood Hills. It was a great Spring morning with a light breeze and the flowers blooming. And parking citations were being handed out left and right. That’s right, parking citations were blooming like wild flowers today after some neighbors were fed up with the parking violations. A frustrated resident sent an email to the neighborhood mailing list that sparked calls to the non-emergency number to report the violations. The results: almost 20 parking citations being issued. Raleigh Police Department (RPD) has been very supportive of correcting this behavior in the Lineberry area.
Last week I met with Lt Perry and two Sgts. from the Southwest district and informed them that parking and party issues are top quality of life issues for the Lineberry area. They listened. RPD has and will continue to be responsive to these concerns and enjoys working with the neighborhoods. The most common parking violations are: (more…)
The Trailwood Hills Home Owners Association (HOA) held their annual meeting on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at Carolina Pines Community Center. During the meeting, the group reviewed the past year and looked forward to the year ahead. Items that the homeowners who were present expressed interest in were:
The homeowners also had a great sense of accomplishment as they reviewed all the items addressed from April 2008-2009: (more…)
A community watch group was formed at the Trailwood Hills HOA meeting on Thursday, February 26, 2009. Officer Barbie Upchurch presented at the meeting and stated that while a neighborhood our size should typically have 40 to 50 members, we would be able to go forward with fewer (we currently have 13 members). Officer Upchurch reported that our neighborhood has had a small number of 911 calls over the past six months in comparison to other neighborhoods our size, and the report of calls will be available on our website shortly.
Currently, the group will meet once a year at the annual meeting. The Captain will be in contact with Officer Upchurch and receive monthly reports about crime in our neighborhood, which will be posted to the website. The Captain will also keep the neighborhood informed via the listserve and the website as to any unusual activities or items of importance. (more…)
On the January 6, 2009 City Council agenda, item 22.4, titled, “Trailwood Hills Community – No Parking Zones” was passed. The item recommended an approval to amend the traffic schedule listed below.
It is recommended that No Parking Zones be established on one side of the following streets: Buck Spring Court, Cassimir Court, Farlow Gap Lane, Horizon Hike Court, Lower Dry Falls Court, Tanawha Court and Upper Dry Falls Court. This request was received from the Trailwood Hills Homeowners Association.Add to Traffic Schedule 13:
- Buck Spring Court, south side, in its entirety.
- Cassimir Court, north side, in its entirety.
- Farlow Gap Lane, west side, in its entirety.
- Horizon Hike Court, north side, in its entirety.
- Lower Dry Falls Court, north side, in its entirety.
- Tanawha Court, north side, in its entirety.
- Upper Dry Falls Court, north side, in its entirety.
The HOA received their first round of no parking on their streets in December 2007. The streets outlined above, cover the majority, if not all the streets in their area. These measures were primarily taken due to insufficient width for emergency vehicles to pass if cars are parked on both sides of these streets.
I attended the Raleigh City Council this evening to speak at the public hearing for this year’s budget. Times are tight but our neighborhood still needs to get our share. While the potential park at Lineberry Drive and Sierra Drive has stalled, I asked the city council to still pursue purchasing this property for a neighborhood park and secure funds for the master planning. Additionally, I added a new request for pedestrian improvements in the area.
Actually, these two items go hand-in-hand. If you can envision the park being the center of the neighborhood, we have Lineberry Drive and Sierra Drive as major pedestrian routes leading to the park. We also have Trailwood Hills Drive, Alder Ridge, and Lawrence Drive as other routes with pedestrian traffic. Generating the pedestrian awareness now can strengthen the proposal for the land acquisition. Neighbors will be asked to participate in a task force over the next several weeks, I hope that we have excellent participation.
Below, you will find the request I presented to City Council on January 6, 2009: (more…)
Last week, Trailwood Springs HOA replaced their entrance sign at Paul’s Penny and Lineberry. Earlier in June of this year, a silver Honda crashed into the sign, completely destroying it and damaging their car.
A neighbor described the incident on the Trailwood Springs Yahoo! Group stating:
“The sign at Paul’s Penny was run over by a kid that lives in Trailwood Hills, apparently he was speeding and demolished the sign and totaled his car. He had a couple of his girl friends with him when we drove by so I am guessing he was showing off.”
Here are some pictures of the before and after: (more…)
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