Author: tom

Over the past few months, we solicited bids for the island maintenance on Poston Road. Four bids were submitted, all of which were for a lower cost than our previous contract. In addition to reducing the costs, as a bonus, the service was expanded to the two small islands within the neighborhood. The new company, Evans Enterprises, is anxious to do a great job and be well received by the community. Please send any comments you have on the new service (once they have had a chance to begin) to parkshore3 @clutter.com (no spaces) so we can gauge satisfaction with the new company’s service and provide them with the feedback necessary to meet our needs. They will be visiting the islands monthly to do routine trimming, debris cleanup, weeding and weed prevention as well as applying pine straw twice a year. If you haven’t yet participated in the community landscaping fund, please do so as soon as you can so we can continue this service that helps maintain the value of our homes.

This was forwarded from a neighborhood further down Sam Ritt, but seems to apply to us as well. I haven’t researched it or attended one of the information sessions, so if you know more, please add a comment.

“If you have not attended an I-526 public hearing, please try to. Unfortunately for our District, every alternative tends to increase traffic on Hwy 7, Sam Rittenberg and Orange Grove by a minimum of 10%. Our area is essentially a cut through, cutting the corner if you will from I-26 to the junction of I-526 and 17 South. As this process continues, I believe we need to become more active in working with the State, County and City in traffic calming from the bridge to Carriage Lane on one side and to Ashley Hall Rd. on the other. Even now, it is difficult for bicyclist and pedestrians to cross this speedway and given an increased volume, negotiating it will be near impossible.”

So far only 25 of our 65 homes have participated, which is less than 40%. We can do better than that. I’ll be sending out reminder letters soon. Paying incrementally is acceptable, if you don’t want to pay everything at once.

Hopefully it will wash away some pollen…

(image from the Weather Underground)

I talked with Eric from the County Public Works, and he says the resurfacing will be completed.

The work already done was part of a project from last year. The budget for that project ran out in the middle of our neighborhood.

There is new money from the half-cent sales tax available, and the County has put out for bids to complete our streets. The contract should be awarded in a month, then the contractor has 200 days to complete the work.

So we’ll get resurfaced by the end of the year, but we don’t know anything more than that.

The equipment was all packed out on Saturday afternoon, and I haven’t seen it since. Windsor, Birmingham, Marble Arch, and Tudor were paved; Charing Cross, Paddington, Leichester, and Portsmouth weren’t touched. No idea if they’re coming back.

It looked like a County job, so I’ve sent the County a note asking about this.

I guess that stimulus money moves quickly… we came home this afternoon to find someone milling the street in anticipation of repaving it.

I highly recommend you park off the street tomorrow, and get your garbage and recycling containers inside as soon as you can tomorrow.

I do not know if this will impact the garbage and recycling pickup schedule, but I doubt it.

We have sent out the letter for the 2009 Neighborhood fees. Please show your support of the neighborhood by paying.

Made some changes here… hopefully you won’t notice anything.

There’s been a big property-for-sale sign up in front of the lot for a few weeks. Guess we’re not getting neighbors.