Landscaping
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New Landscaper 2024
In the past 6 or 7 years, this community has been through a number of landscapers. Why? To put it lightly, they weren’t good enough. They gave excuses as to why things weren’t getting done, rather than just doing them. We had to walk the property with them, showing how “we want things done” even though they were regular things any landscaper should be doing on a regular basis, but they would say “that’s above and beyond regular.” You’d think we were asking them to make this place look like Disneyland, when all we wanted was to ensure weeds were…
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Solar Lighted Park Pathway
The West side pathway into the park now has a much needed solar light. That part of the park was always a dark spot at night. This solar light was originally placed by the basketball court, however it wasn’t doing any good there and the Board felt it could be better utilized by providing light for that pathway.. which you can see it, indeed, does. We have also moved the solar light on the other side of the basketball court to where the above mentioned light used to sit, between the ramada and the court. And we will then have…
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Accent Lights on the New Steps
We’ve added some accent solar lights to the newly installed platform steps at the north side of the large park. While it wasn’t that dark there at night, it does provide some light to show where the steps edges are. Stay tuned for more lighting updates soon.
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More Downed Trees & Erosion & Other Updates
Storm Damages The recent storm has once again knocked down a couple more trees on Acoma. The HOA is already on top of these and they should be cleared soon. Park Erosion The clean up around the playground area and sandlot is still underway. We had a few supply shortages with the railroad ties that will be placed around the sandlot as well as on the north side just west of the playground they will be used to create layered platforms to make large steps into the park. The erosion holes should be filled with concrete any day now which…
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Update on Landscaping – April/May 2022
Jim from Poor Daddy Landscaping has been asked by the Board to give updates on the current state of the community grounds and progress done to take care of it. Here is a list of updates from him: Weed Spray Greenbelt/grass area Irrigation Tree Trimming Monuments
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Irrigation Issues: Leaks and Flag Markers
Recently your Board has received numerous inquiries regarding pooling of water in many areas of the common areas. Addressing irrigation issues on a case by case basis is time consuming and creating a backlog with Poor Daddy’s Landscaping, our community’s new landscape vendor. It has been determined that our irrigation system is in greater disrepair than anticipated or budgeted for in fiscal 2022. Working proactively, Poor Daddy’s has been instructed to perform a complete irrigation audit. At times you will see excess water leaking into areas of the common areas. This is intentional and necessary as the irrigation system has…
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Introducing Poor Daddy’s Landscaping
The State of the Community Good help is hard to come by. As President of this community’s Board of Directors, I can honestly say that Wayne (VP) and myself have constantly tried to get our past landscaping vendor to do what they were contractually obligated to do. In fact, Wayne has personally walked this community almost everyday for over the past 1 year and a half watching the landscaping vendor, taking notes, talking to them, pointing things out, I mean you name it. And despite those efforts, the vendor just didn’t come through. Promises were broken, plants were not watered,…
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This Community Rocks!
We had previously placed rocks in some spots to add some curb appeal however, some of those placements weren’t exactly what we had pictured. So with a few tweaks, I think everyone will agree that it’s an improvement. Not only that, but key placed rocks on the corner of 157th and Evans, has stopped the kids from walking through the smaller rocks and kicking them allover the corner.
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New Granite/Rocks Added to Community
As many of you may have seen, and mentioned on previous posts, new granite has been added across all of the common areas in the community. This also includes the surrounding water retention areas. This along with the freshly panted flowers and plants has made a major impact on the way this community looks. Going from one of the worst summers last year where a lot of our plants had died, and many of those not having the water they needed due to improper or broken drip lines and irrigation, to having most (on our way to all) of the…
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Many New Plants have been Planted
As stated previously, BrightView, our landscaping vendor, has been actively planting new plants in the common areas and along the streets. We are planting over 400 new plants as well as ensuring existing plants will be getting the water they need and any unused drip lines will be capped off. Later, in a few weeks, you will notice the granite (rocks) in the common areas also be replenished. Another post will be made at that time.