The road resurfacing project should finish today, with all barriers removed by tomorrow at 7 p.m. Yay!
Workers will return December 21 and 22 to lay down the road markings that the resurfacing covered over. You won't have to move your car like you had to for the resurfacing. Here's how it will work: workers will do as much of the striping of the roads and parking spaces as possible on the 21st. They'll return the 22nd to do any that they could not complete the first day.
If you don't have a driveway, please try to park in a space that workers have already re-striped when you come home on the 21st. Also please try to park WITHIN the lines, especially where stripes still need to go down. This will help make sure workers can get all the other spaces done.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Road Project Dates and Schedule
The road resurfacing project begins next week and you can see the schedule below. This could change if weather causes problems. You will get a notice posted on your door 48 hours before work will begin in your area.
If your have more questions, or you can't figure out where your home is on the less than perfect map below, our community manager, Excelsior Community Management will host a workshop next Monday, November 30, between 6:30 and 8 p.m. at the community pool. You can also call Excelsior at 813-349-6552. The previous post on this blog describes the work in more detail, including the golf cart shuttle service available free to residents during the time they can't park close to their homes.
If your have more questions, or you can't figure out where your home is on the less than perfect map below, our community manager, Excelsior Community Management will host a workshop next Monday, November 30, between 6:30 and 8 p.m. at the community pool. You can also call Excelsior at 813-349-6552. The previous post on this blog describes the work in more detail, including the golf cart shuttle service available free to residents during the time they can't park close to their homes.
Red: Closes at 7am on Wednesday, December 2nd and
will not reopen until Thursday, December 3rd by 7pm.
Purple: Closes at 7am on Friday,
December 4th and will not reopen until Saturday, December 5th by 7pm.
Yellow:
Closes at 7am on Monday, December 7th and
will not reopen until Tuesday, December 8th by 7pm.
Blue: Closes at 7am on Wednesday, December 9th and will not reopen until
Thursday, December 10th by 7pm.
Pink: Closes at 7am on Friday,
December 11th and will not reopen until Saturday, December 12th by 7pm.
US-301 is the road at the bottom of the map to give you a point of reference.
Red areas include most of Kensington Park Ave., the north half of Johanna Ave, Dartmouth Hill Rd south of Johanna and all of Great Carlisle Ct.
Purple areas include the south half of Lake St. Charles Blvd., the west hald of Hawthorne Trace Lane between Johanna and Lake St. Charles, and the west half of Marble Fawn Pl. between Johanna and Hawthorne Trace.
Yellow areas include parts of Kensington Park, the north half of Johanna from the pool to the community entrance, Hawthorne Trace from Lake St. Charles to Marble Fawn, and continuing south on Marble Fawn and including all of Spencer Ridge Ct.
Blue areas include the east side of Marble Fawn between Johanna Ave and Hawthorne Trace Ln., the west half of Hawthorne Trace between Johanna and Lake St. Charles, the north half of Lake St. Charles, the west half of Dartmouth Hill Rd between Kensington Park and Johanna, and parts of Kensington Park.
Pink areas include the south half of Johanna Avenue.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Road Resurfacing Begins December 2
The HOA board of directors asks for your help and patience for an important project coming up next month. Starting December 2, our roads and parking areas will be resurfaced to extend their life. The roads in St. Charles Place are private, and the HOA has the responsibility to maintain them.
The road resurfacing project will happen in five phases spread out over eleven days, so that we don't all have to park at the Winn-Dixie across the street on US-301! But it will mean that all residents will have about two days where they cannot park near their units while their section gets its new coat of blacktop.
(The stuff is actually called Pavement Dressing Conditioner or PDC, so it promises to last much longer than a coat of that tar stuff, and with luck it will be another 9 or 10 years before we have to do this again.)
Residents will get a notice posted on their front doors 48 hours before their their road will close. If you're not in the first phase, your road won't close December 2. The HOA has contracted with a security company that will shuttle you to and from your home on a golf cart, so you won't have to walk a long distance during the two days you can't park near your home. The company will work 24/7 during the length of the project. The notice posted on doors will include the phone number for the shuttle service.
Besides giving people rides, the security company will patrol the closed areas to make sure no one tries to drive on them. Homeowners whose residents or guests damage the work, the surrounding concrete or landscaping by driving into the closed areas will have to pay to repair it. Closed areas will have barricades up to make it obvious.
The HOA will not enforce normal rules prohibiting parking on the street during the project. Vehicles still must face the flow of traffic, they can't block fire hydrants or driveways, and they can't park side-by-side in a way that makes the street impassible.
If you won't need to drive it when your street is closed, you can keep your car in your driveway or garage, if you have one. But once the barricades go up, your vehicle must stay in place for the two days the road is closed.
Weather could delay or change the schedule of the project. The coat can't go on the road when it rains. We did plan this project for a time we typically get little rain. If the schedule changes, you'll get notice posted on your door of the new time table.
You might have more questions. Our property manager, Excelsior Community Management will hold a workshop Monday, November 30 (right after Thanksgiving weekend) at the community pool from 6:30-8 p.m. You can get a copy of the project dates for all five sections of the project.
You can also call Excelsior's office at (813) 349-6552 or email StCharlesPlaceHOAManagement@TampaBay.rr.com with any questions you have.
I know this will cause inconvenience for a couple of days. But when it's finished, you'll see how much better and newer our community looks. And treating the road surface now means that we won't have to tear it all out and replace it, which would really disrupt our lives on a completely different level, not to mention cost a whole lot more money.
The road resurfacing project will happen in five phases spread out over eleven days, so that we don't all have to park at the Winn-Dixie across the street on US-301! But it will mean that all residents will have about two days where they cannot park near their units while their section gets its new coat of blacktop.
(The stuff is actually called Pavement Dressing Conditioner or PDC, so it promises to last much longer than a coat of that tar stuff, and with luck it will be another 9 or 10 years before we have to do this again.)
Residents will get a notice posted on their front doors 48 hours before their their road will close. If you're not in the first phase, your road won't close December 2. The HOA has contracted with a security company that will shuttle you to and from your home on a golf cart, so you won't have to walk a long distance during the two days you can't park near your home. The company will work 24/7 during the length of the project. The notice posted on doors will include the phone number for the shuttle service.
Besides giving people rides, the security company will patrol the closed areas to make sure no one tries to drive on them. Homeowners whose residents or guests damage the work, the surrounding concrete or landscaping by driving into the closed areas will have to pay to repair it. Closed areas will have barricades up to make it obvious.
The HOA will not enforce normal rules prohibiting parking on the street during the project. Vehicles still must face the flow of traffic, they can't block fire hydrants or driveways, and they can't park side-by-side in a way that makes the street impassible.
If you won't need to drive it when your street is closed, you can keep your car in your driveway or garage, if you have one. But once the barricades go up, your vehicle must stay in place for the two days the road is closed.
Weather could delay or change the schedule of the project. The coat can't go on the road when it rains. We did plan this project for a time we typically get little rain. If the schedule changes, you'll get notice posted on your door of the new time table.
You might have more questions. Our property manager, Excelsior Community Management will hold a workshop Monday, November 30 (right after Thanksgiving weekend) at the community pool from 6:30-8 p.m. You can get a copy of the project dates for all five sections of the project.
You can also call Excelsior's office at (813) 349-6552 or email StCharlesPlaceHOAManagement@TampaBay.rr.com with any questions you have.
I know this will cause inconvenience for a couple of days. But when it's finished, you'll see how much better and newer our community looks. And treating the road surface now means that we won't have to tear it all out and replace it, which would really disrupt our lives on a completely different level, not to mention cost a whole lot more money.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
The Trash Problem
We pay more than $800 a month to clean the areas around our trash dumpsters because people can't bother to put their garbage in them. That's nearly $10,000 a year!
Our property manager, Jennifer Robertson, has sought bids to get this done cheaper, but it's still money our HOA could spend on better things. If you don't know, the garbage truck driver does no cleanup. He (or she) simply drives up, empties the dumpster, and sets it back in place. Any extra garbage lying around gets left or, even worse, trapped under the dumpster. Yay! (not really yay)
At last night's HOA meeting, Jennifer told us that if we see a "trash disaster" around the dumpsters, even on weekends, we should call Excelsior's office number (813-349-6552) and they will get someone out there to take care of it, usually within a few hours.
"We treat trash as an emergency," she said.
What they also do? With gloved hands, they go through the garbage and try to find out from which unit it came so they can send a violation notice to the unit owner. Yes, that sounded extreme to me, too, when I first heard it, but if it will help cut down on the roughly 10 grand we have to spend cleaning up after people who trash our community, I say Yay! (yes, really yay)
Our property manager, Jennifer Robertson, has sought bids to get this done cheaper, but it's still money our HOA could spend on better things. If you don't know, the garbage truck driver does no cleanup. He (or she) simply drives up, empties the dumpster, and sets it back in place. Any extra garbage lying around gets left or, even worse, trapped under the dumpster. Yay! (not really yay)
At last night's HOA meeting, Jennifer told us that if we see a "trash disaster" around the dumpsters, even on weekends, we should call Excelsior's office number (813-349-6552) and they will get someone out there to take care of it, usually within a few hours.
"We treat trash as an emergency," she said.
What they also do? With gloved hands, they go through the garbage and try to find out from which unit it came so they can send a violation notice to the unit owner. Yes, that sounded extreme to me, too, when I first heard it, but if it will help cut down on the roughly 10 grand we have to spend cleaning up after people who trash our community, I say Yay! (yes, really yay)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
HOA Meeting Tomorrow Night
Yeah, I know. It seems that all I post are meeting notices. I'll try to do better. But we do have an HOA meeting tomorrow night. It's at the offices of Excelsior Community Management in the Krycul Business Center at 6554 Krycul Avenue in Riverview. 7 p.m.
I hope you can make it.
I hope you can make it.
Monday, February 2, 2015
New Property Manager Has Taken Over
We have officially changed property managers. Excelsior Community Management now manages St. Charles Place. If you have questions about any common areas or services in the community, contact Jennifer Robertson at Excelsior.
The phone number is (813) 349-6552. Her email address is StCharlesPlaceHOAManagement@tampabay.rr.com
One more thing changes: the site of monthly HOA meetings moves to Excelsior's office at 6554 Krycul Avenue. That is almost literally across the street from the River of Life Christian Church, which has graciously hosted us for the past five years.
HOA meetings happen the third Wednesday of the month. The next one comes February 18 at 7 p.m.
The transition between management companies should appear seamless to you. The HOA has not changed the bank it uses to take dues payments so you mail them too the same address, or use the same online banking payee, as you have always done.
As always, you can send any questions of feedback to your HOA Board of Directors at board@stcharlesplace.us.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
New Property Manager Same Payment Address
We get a new property manager February 1. However, we will not have to change the bank we use for HOA payments. This means that the mailing address, or electronic bill pay, if you bank online, does NOT change.
The HOA board will work with the new property management company to make as much of the transition invisible to you as possible.
Except the part where we get more visits to the property, and more hands-on service from the property manager.
The HOA board will work with the new property management company to make as much of the transition invisible to you as possible.
Except the part where we get more visits to the property, and more hands-on service from the property manager.
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