Friday, August 15. 2008
HOA Rules & Regulations
The Board of Directors would like to update the rules and regulations to meet the current needs of our community. The existing rules can be found at http://www.sorrentohoa.org/documents/rules-and-regulations.pdf. A first draft of revised rules can be found at http://www.sorrentohoa.org/documents/2008-Rules.pdf
Do you have any constructive ideas on the rules? Perhaps there is something bugging you about pool use, or speeding, or parking, or landscaping. Maybe you don’t like a section of the existing rules or the first draft of the new rules.
If you think a change, deletion or addition should be made to the rules, please post it here.
The rules must be legal, and they can’t conflict with the CC&Rs or Bylaws. http://www.sorrentohoa.org/documents.htm Within those restrictions we can make the rules what we want them to be. With over 600 homes in our Association there will be more than 600 opinions on what we should or should not do.
Personally, I am a moderate; I agree that we need to control speeding, illegal parking, and disturbances at the pool. I don’t think people should be able to paint their house purple. I do think people should clean up after their dog. I don’t think all power tools can be prohibited, or cats should be kept on a leash.
The new rules and regulations will be reviewed by our committees, our lawyers before the Board votes on them. The whole community will get another chance to view them and make comments before they are adopted.
In the end, somebody will not like the final rules. They may find them too wimpy or too restrictive.
The purpose of a blog is to allow a forum for discussion. Please be respectful if you disagree with your neighbor on an idea. Please remember that everything is a suggestion, not the final rules brought down from a mountaintop by Moses.
If you can, please avoid posting anonymously. We only want to hear from Sorrento/Meadows residents and anonymous posts can come from anywhere.
If you would like to be on the Rules Committee, send me or Marinel an e-mail off line. We need one or two more residents with good writing skills to join.
Pat Pope
Also, there should be a limit as to how many "guests" a resident can bring to the pool. I have noticed a lot of parties at the Sorrento Pool without any notification being provided to the association. Thanks."
Good suggestions! Can you suggest some wording?"
GARAGE UTILIZATION. A PROPERTY OWNER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THEIR GARAGE AS THEY SEE FIT. WHILE WE ENCOURAGE OWNERS TO PARK CARS INSIDE, PARKING ON THE DRIVEWAY AND USING THE GARAGE FOR STORAGE SHOULD BE ALLOWED."
IN REGARDS TO THE DOG BARKING ISSUE. DON'T WE HAVE DOGS SO THAT THEY CAN WARN US WHEN UNFAMILIAR PEOPLE COME CLOSE TO OUR HOMES? I AGREE ABOUT THE EXCESSIVE BARKING PROBLEM, BUT NOT ABOUT THE DOGS BARKING WHEN SOMEONE WALKS BY (NOT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WALK BY OUR HOMES LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.) MY DOGS BARK AT PEOPLE WALKING BY AND I FEEL SAFER KNOWING THAT THE ARE ALERTING ME."