Caroline Ridge Owners Association, Inc.

Lawn Problems...

Dec 23, 2004

One item we have been discussing for the past year is lawn problems. Many of you have done an outstanding job of keeping your lawn in tip-top shape while others of you have started to let your lawns go.
We even received a complaint that the association should pay the water bills to keep an owner?’s lawn in shape. We reminded this owner that they purchased a home in our neighborhood that has deed-restricting covenants that specify they must maintain their lawns. We owe it to every owner to enforce the standards evenly and without prejudice.
Many of you have commented that you don?’t think the association is doing anything about homes with terrible lawns. We?’re letting you all know that we are taking steps to correct these problems. We have to follow the letter of the law and the procedures that were enacted in 2001. The Association does intend on taking every step necessary to improve these problems once the growing season starts on March 15th.
We will also be monitoring the lawn cutting behind fences on a more frequent basis after discussing this with several of you. We would like to remind owners who border any of the retention ponds that it is their responsibility to cut the grass behind their fence down to the water line or bottom of the embankment.
We will have our inspectors start looking more closely at this during monthly inspections, so please help us and keep your lawn cut behind the fence at your home.
We also advise those with weed problems now to call a professional lawn service. They have chemicals which homeowners do not have access to and they will keep coming back until the problem is solved. This is very cost effective when you consider that each reapplication you do will cost you money. They can control the weed problem without killing your lawn.