We wish to extend a warm welcome to
any new owners and residents that have chosen to make Villages at Grassy Creek
their new place of residence. We are
glad you are here and hope to meet you around the community and at our annual
HOA meetings. To our established
residents: thank you, as always, for
making Villages at Grassy Creek an exceptional neighborhood to reside. We encourage you to join us at our next
annual HOA meeting, too.
Autumn is in full swing, and our
community is an active one! Many of our
residents are enjoying the change of season, as the colors begin to change and the leaves fall to the ground. There's a chill in the air, too, and since we just had our final community garage sale of the season...it's time to prepare for the new seasons awaiting us.
Pedestrian and traffic safety is important. Please slow down while driving through the
neighborhood and take note of the posted speed limit of 25 MPH along Blue Grass
Parkway and Round Lake Road. Be extra
aware of what's going on around you, as you drive through our neighborhood
because there are people on the road all day long, and please be prepared to
stop suddenly if a child darts out into the road in front of you. With school in full swing, we also
remind you to please respectfully stop for any school buses with flashing red
lights.
In response to many homeowners sharing their concerns with us regarding drivers that are speeding dangerously throughout our neighborhood and
failing to stop at stop signs; in addition to some recent reports of
homeowners' sheds being broken into and property stolen during the night this past summer, you may have noticed more police cars patrolling the neighborhood. Our hopes
are that the increase of police presence would deter speeding/reckless driving,
theft, and vandalism in our neighborhood.
As we continue to explore our options in this area, we will keep you
updated.
We have been researching affordable
and environmentally friendly techniques to help clean up the stagnant ponds in
our neighborhood. To ensure that our
ponds remain healthy and the algae are kept at a minimum, we contacted several
aquatic environment experts and sought their advice. They all recommended an aeration system to
keep the water from being stagnant.
Benefits of an aeration system include adding oxygen to the water and
surface agitation. This will help to
reduce the foul pond odor, improve water clarity, be a healthier environment
for fish and other pond wildlife, and discourage mosquitoes to breed.
We are pleased to inform you that,
after contacting several water aeration companies and comparing prices and
values to get the best deal, in mid-July we placed four pumps in the east pond
and six in the west pond. They are
working well and serving their purpose.
We would like to encourage you, when
placing your trash out by the road for pickup, to keep all trash bags inside an
appropriate trash receptacle with its lid secured. Please refrain from placing your bags
directly curbside. We are finding that
wildlife is tearing open the bags that are left outside of the trash
receptacles and happily distributing the trash throughout the neighborhood, in
addition to the litter blowing in the wind.
We've recently witnessed and heard stories of birds, raccoons, and a chicken-wing
loving opossum ripping into exposed trash bags at night and making unwanted
messes. Making use of your trash bins
will make this more difficult for these critters to do this. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter
and helping us keep our community clean.
Did you know that your HOA has a
website full of up-to-date information for you?
At
http://villagesatgrassycreek.blogspot.com, you will find our
neighborhood blog with announcements, annual meeting reminders, neighborhood
by-laws and covenants, helpful documents/forms, and contact information and links
to the Mainstreet Management Group. We
would like to use our website as a platform to make Villages at Grassy Creek
the very best it can be for you and your family. We encourage you to visit often, tell us what
you like and what you would like to add or have changed. We welcome your thoughts and ideas for ways
to maintain our wonderful neighborhood.
Your opinion matters to us!
While this newsletter references some
issues we are having in the neighborhood, we want to make it clear that one
thing we do not lack is homeowners who truly care about the community and their
individual homes. We appreciate the
efforts each of you make to keep our neighborhood a beautiful and safe place to
live.
Thank you for your consideration and
active participation in maintaining the quality of life here in Villages at
Grassy Creek Central.
Your VAGC HOA Board
