One of the most onerous tasks of serving on the HOA Board is fielding complaints. There are two categories of complaints we get: Views and Pets.
The Board has taken the approach that neighbors should talk to neighbors as we have found this to be the most effective approach in resolving most conflicts.
Lately, we have fielded a lot of complaints about dogs fouling common areas and dogs not being on leash. We have taken the approach of contacting dog owners directly as we have not wanted to clog everyone’s inboxes. But we wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone of our HOA Covenants:
No animals shall be allowed except traditional small household pets. All dogs must be kept within the boundary of the owner’s parcel either indoors, in a kennel or in an adequately fenced area except when attended by the owner. No dangerous dogs (e.g. pit bulls) are allowed.
We have spoken with several homeowners about dog fouling at the cove and we have installed a sign on the cove path. We hope the problem there has been remedied.
We are also seeing fouling in the Park (dog bags provided there) and in the rocks along the sidewalk on Blue Heron Lane. We get reports like this:
“This is now my 6th day in a row, not including some random other days in the last month, that I have had to pickup other people’s dog poop in the park. “
“I have picked up six piles of poo along Blue Heron today.”
We have spoken with a couple of homeowners about their dogs wandering the neighborhood unleashed. We hope they will take their neighbor’s complaints seriously and keep their dogs leashed and pick up after their dog. In this increasingly wired world, many homeowners have cameras and they are angry at seeing neighbor’s dogs use their yard for a toilet.
We also get some cat complaints. Cats do impact our native Quail population and, when they roam, they often use their neighbor’s flower beds as a toilet. Please be considerate when it comes to your cat as well.
We hope this email and our individual contacts with homeowners alerts everyone to what has become a problem and that by doing so, everyone steps up to do the right thing.
Thank you to the many pet owners who do an awesome job of keeping their pets on leash and picking up after them.