Yocona Ridge Homeowners,
Thank you for your
continued support of the arduous task of developing and implementing a fair and
functional Homeowners Association. We
also appreciate your responses to the mailed letter regarding the by-laws and covenants.
The board would like to
remind you that the by-laws are purely a procedural document that is used to
enforce the covenants set forth by the developers of the neighborhood. The covenants, in part or whole, may not be
waived for 25 years and a 75% approval vote through recorded instrument of the
homeowners. Please see letter Y of the
covenants for the full wording. This
means that we, the board have been entrusted by you, the homeowner, to enforce
the document as is. We recognize that
the existing covenants do not fully cover all issues of interest in the
neighborhood (e.g. lawn maintenance, roaming pets, cars/boats/trailers, among
many others), but we are not legally allowed to enforce these desires unless
the existing covenant is amended. After
legal consultation, it has been deemed appropriate that we may amend, but not
remove within the covenant. This was the
rationale for the letter sent to you previously. In this letter, we asked for suggestions for
amendments that the board would then present to the neighborhood to vote to
accept or reject.
Based on recent comments,
which were not previously submitted to the board as possible amendments, we
would like to again ask for possible additions, not reductions, of the existing
covenants. We will combine these
requests to the existing suggestions and present them as a whole for the
neighborhood to vote.
The board would also like
to respond globally to the communication regarding political and other signage
placed on property. Please refer to
letter W in the covenants for the support of our previous email. We would also like to remind conscientious
homeowners to submit their concerns about covenant violations to the board so
that the board can enforce them. We
believe that the objective board will be fair and just in its decisions
regarding covenant violations. The
procedure for this has been set forth in the posted by-laws.
Further, while we fully
appreciate the support given and responses, we ask that communication remain in
a calm, pleasant, and positive manner. We
encourage communication and hope that we, as a board, are progressing in a
transparent and open manner. We believe
that energy spent on negative remarks and complaining serves no positive
outcomes, but stirs up animosity among homeowners. Instead, we ask that you spend this energy
helping and maintaining a pleasant, safe, and welcoming neighborhood so that
everyone’s’ investment remains protected and strong.
Thank you,
Yocona Ridge Homeowner’s
Associate Board
