The Trailwood Springs Homeowner’s Association 2008 Annual Meeting took place November 6, 2008 at the Carolina Pines Community Center at 7pm. A couple of the highlights:
The board requested ideas and input that could be put into a quarterly newsletter that would be delivered to residents in the neighborhood. The goal of the newsletter is to provide information for the homeowners & residents in our neighborhood relevant to South West Raleigh. Any of these ideas could be emailed to our property manager, Katie at Dickson Properties (katie@dickson-properties.com).
Tom Colson spoke next about deficiencies in the thickness of some of the pavement in the neighborhood streets. He mentioned that the cul-de-sac near 2420 Long and Winding Rd would need to be repaved in the next year to prevent further sinking.
Jason Hibbets, the creator of this website, joined us and discussed his vision for getting conversations started through the Lineberry Alliance webpage. He encouraged us to join the mailing list so that we all can stay up to date on happenings in and around the neighborhoods that boarder Lineberry Drive.
Kathy Hughes briefed us about our community watch stats. There’s a new community watch initiative in which the 162 properties in the Trailwood Springs neighborhood will be divided into 6 sections with 6 captains. Each captain has 20-25 houses. Over the last year, our neighborhood had 7 alarm burglaries, 18 loud parties at 10 different addresses, and 2 suspicious persons. She encouraged all residents to make sure your community watch captain has your contact info so you can find out when danger might be lurking or let other neighbors know. Feel free to sign up with the yahoo message board established for our neighborhood to provide your contact info and read other neighborhood specific discussions. This address is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trailwoodsprings/
Officer Al Draughon described the new PROP (Probationary Rental Occupancy Permit) program being implemented across the city of Raleigh. The premise will be to control problem rental properties by starting a Rental Registration Database. Owners will be required to register their property by paying a $30 fee. Police officers will be able to give $75 civil citations to problem properties. The properties will be allowed 6 strikes or violations and will then be boarded up and required to be vacant for 2 years. If owners try to avoid the database after the undecided registration window they will face a fine of $50 a day up to $2000 a month until they register.
Some of the resident questions dealt with the following issues:
- Leaf collection doesn’t happen in our neighborhood because of the private streets
- We need volunteers for a committee to discuss parking policy adjustments. The board is looking for ideas on how to improve parking while keeping the majority of the homeowners happy (Email Katie)
- Upgrades or changes to property should be cleared with the board with an “ARC” form
- Per Raleigh Real Estate records, only 21% or 35 of our 162 properties are rental properties
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