Has anyone tried to walk around the pond lately? My wife, kid and dog went down there yesterday and found a mess. Between the trash, over grown paths and missing bridge we didn't make it very far. The bridge that was closest to the back left corner of the pool is now in the pond by the benches to the back right of the pool. Someone and I am assuming it was kids have taken several of the path timbers and used them to make a bridge to a little island in the woods. I looked down in this area and it is absolutely full of trash. At some point we need to have a cleanup day.
On a somewhat related note, I have been noticing a large congregation of teenagers at the pool parking lot on a pretty regular basis. Personally I don't have a huge problem with it but I can see where it could lead to potential problems. What would the HOA's liability be if someone got hurt in the pool's parking lot?
Your concerns are falling on deaf ears they don`t care it has been that way for a long while. Look at the rest of the common areas there is enough dog doo to keep a garden going! And no signs
Common areas « Result #3 on Oct 12, 2009, 7:37am »
Has anyone tried to walk around the pond lately? My wife, kid and dog went down there yesterday and found a mess. Between the trash, over grown paths and missing bridge we didn't make it very far. The bridge that was closest to the back left corner of the pool is now in the pond by the benches to the back right of the pool. Someone and I am assuming it was kids have taken several of the path timbers and used them to make a bridge to a little island in the woods. I looked down in this area and it is absolutely full of trash. At some point we need to have a cleanup day.
On a somewhat related note, I have been noticing a large congregation of teenagers at the pool parking lot on a pretty regular basis. Personally I don't have a huge problem with it but I can see where it could lead to potential problems. What would the HOA's liability be if someone got hurt in the pool's parking lot?
If you would like to donate to the Second Harvest Food Drive at the Curtis Pond Yard Sale on Saturday, October 10, 2009 a barrel will be located at 115 Milroy Lane
Re: MAG in the News « Result #5 on Sept 15, 2009, 10:41pm »
Charlotte Observer 09/13/2009
Mooresville penalizes developer
Mooresville pulls bonds of subdivision developer who didn't build sidewalks and other promised amenities.
By Joe Marusak jmarusak@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Sunday, Sep. 13, 2009
MOORESVILLE
The town has taken the rare step of pulling a developer's bonds because the company failed to build sidewalks and make other promised improvements in its subdivisions.
The Mooresville Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed last week to pull, or “call,” about $550,000 in bonds from Georgia-based MAG Land Development LLC's bonding company. Town officials said the move could cripple the developer's ability to finance future projects.
The bonds were for sidewalk, asphalt and other improvements the town said MAG Land Development failed to complete in the Oaks on Main and Curtis Pond developments.
The board also unanimously agreed to call a $145,000 bank letter of credit related to sidewalk work that the town said MAG Land never performed in a separate phase of Curtis Pond.
“It's the most prudent thing to do with the town of Mooresville's (money), the citizens' money,” commissioner Frank Rader said.
Commissioners pulled the bonds so residents of the subdivisions can finally have their sidewalks and other promised work completed, commissioner Chris Carney said.
“We'll get as much done as we can with the money,” Carney said.
Mooresville's current board of commissioners has threatened to pull the bonds of other developers for uncompleted work in such other large subdivisions as Cherry Grove and Morrison Plantation. But those developers completed the work when they realized the town was serious about pulling their bonds, commissioners said.
In Aug. 31 letters to Mooresville Assistant Town Manager Erskine Smith, MAG Land Development manager Douglas Adams requested a year's extension on the bonds and letter of credit.
“We are working diligently to accomplish this in a timely manner,” Adams said in the letters regarding work required under the bonds and letter of credit.
Smith replied that only the board of commissioners had the authority to decide on such an extension.
Commissioners said at last week's meeting that if they gave the extension, they felt sure they'd be in the same place a year from now, with none of the work completed.
Adams couldn't be reached at his office in McDonough, Ga., last week.Commissioners also said the MAG Land bonds were set to expire two days after last week's votes, which would have left Curtis Pond and Oaks on Main residents with nothing if the board hadn't acted late Tuesday.
“This shows that the town of Mooresville is willing to stand up to developers doing the wrong things in these communities,” said Curtis Pond resident Dom Colucci, who attended last week's meeting. “The town is standing up for the benefit of the residents. I appreciate everything the town is doing.”
MAG Land has developed about 30 communities throughout the Southeast, with about 5,000 home sites on about 4,000 acres, according to its Web site.
Other local communities it lists as developing include Oak Park in Concord, Tanners Creek in Huntersville, Glen Ridge in Cornelius and Barium Seasons in Troutman.
Published in the Charlotte Observer Sunday Sept 13, 2009
MAG in the News « Result #7 on Sept 11, 2009, 12:57pm »
Worried about developer, town seizes bonds to complete work
By Dana Baker | Mooresville Tribune
Published: September 11, 2009
A developer's failure to complete work in two Mooresville subdivisions has prompted town commissioners to take a nearly unprecedented step: calling for the forfeiture of the developer's performance bonds.
Concerned that Mag-Land Development is becoming financially unstable, town commissioners have unanimously agreed to "call" Mag-Land's bonds to pay for work the town must now do to finish the roadwork and sidewalks in Mag-Land's two local developments, Curtis Pond and Oaks on Main. Tuesday night's decision is one of the few times Mooresville has exercised a bond-forfeiture right.
Mag-Land's bonds were originally pledged as a guarantee by the developer to insure that infrastructure -- including roads, sidewalks and landscaping -- would be completed. Such bonds are required of all developers here.
At Curtis Pond, an 856-lot subdivision on Rocky River Road, all 122 lots in Phase 3B remain vacant, as do 134 of 301 lots in Phase 4. Commissioners called one bond for $99,029 and a letter of credit for $145,000 money designated for sidewalk construction in those two phases.
At Oaks on Main, located on North Main Street, about 12 homes have been constructed on the 103 lots. A bond totaling $451,250 is for work that includes a final layer of asphalt for the roads, stormwater management and sidewalks.
The renewal date on the bonds was Sept. 10, and on Tuesday the bank decided to grant a one-year extension. But with other companies now taking out liens against the Mag-Land properties, commissioners decided it was time to step in.
We`d essentially be giving them a year and we could be at the same place a year from now," said Commissioner Miles Atkins. "There are bigger issues associated with this then sidewalks."
Last summer, Mag-Land failed to meet its obligation to extend a sewer line to Mooresville Intermediate School. Mooresville Engineering Manager Ryan Rase said the town reached a tree-party agreement in which the town would pay a contractor $748,494 to complete the sewer extension and Mag-Land would forfeit $916,929 in developer credits.
Curtis Pond residents have also sought help from the town with concerns about a potentially invalid homeowners association for phases 2, 3 and 4, saying they discovered after their purchases that they were excluded from the original homeowners association.
That exclusion left them without access to promised amenities like pools, a splash part, playgrounds and walking trails. With liens against properties, residents are also concerned about properties selling to a buyer with different ideas for their neighborhood.
"I`m happy they pulled the bonds. It couldn`t get any worse" said Curtis Pond resident Steve Broy at Tuesday`s meeting, "The developer has done nothing but lie for two years"
The town might place the bond money in escrow until decisions are made on how to proceed. Rase recommended waiting on sidewalks until the driveway cuts are made, but said the town would finish the roads in Oaks on Main.
Phone calls to Mag-Land Manager Doug Adams in Atlanta were not returned.
Published in the Mooresville Tribune Friday Sept. 11, 2009
Re: Rocky River Rd. to become 4 Lane??? « Result #8 on Aug 26, 2009, 11:26pm »
The only way I see that this neighborhood would have half a chance to stop the expansion of Rocky River Rd. is to somehow get Kistler Farms and ALL of CP to band together and go to the next town meeting and complain. Start calling any town official that would listen.
There is time due to the fact that if you read the whole letter that was sent to all homeowners it states that they do not have the money yet, that buys some time, but not much.
The way I see it is the more traffic the more crime and the lower our home values will go. That is only my opinion. Besides the fact that the larger the road the more traffic and the more exhaust.
So keep an eye on the telephone poles because once they start moving them back the road is not that far behind.
Also keep in mind that a lot of votes come out of our two developments on each side of Rocky River, there is power in numbers.
Re: Rocky River Rd. to become 4 Lane??? « Result #9 on Aug 26, 2009, 1:21am »
You know if this board can not handle the little things that are happening around this neighborhood how in earth do you think your going to tackle the town?
How long does the chair from the pool have to float in the pond before you guys direct the management company to take care of it? What about the rest of the crap floating? The broken bike rack at the pool in the parking lot, the nasty writings on the outside of the pool house, the filth in the parking lot itself, what about that? The newsletter states how much better this place is looking, sure neighbors yards are looking much better, the signs at the entrances look nice although they are all crooked (that is what levels are for) but our common areas look like garbage. The dogs are still leaving little bombs on the stretch of common land on Royalton, I have been asking for signs going on 2 years now and some clean up bags, where are they? The woman`s bathroom at the pool is falling apart and what is going to happen when the sink falls and crushes someones foot or other part of their body, how much will that cost us? It might be cheaper to fix that then pay the insurance increase. How about that makeshift tent looking thing over the smokers table?, how ghetto, you think moving the volleyball net holder back to its corner might make it look a bit better?
What has this board done this summer? Convinced MI Connections to throw a BBQ? How nice, at least it didn`t cost Phase 1 $`s What else has this board done this summer for the kids? NOTHING!!!
Where are all the committees the newsletters talks about, the communication committee, the pool committee? They don`t exist, there are NO committees, why the smokescreen? And now the newsletter is going to be quarterly and posted on the website, you might want to catch up on the board meeting minutes and maybe update that poor looking site before you redirect people there.
You guys keep a management company that has NO clue on what our CCR`s read and they make up their own rules as they go. They intimidate older neighbors to remove a horseshoe pit that was there 3 years before any of you sat on a board. Then a letter to another neighbor telling him that his privacy fence around his patio can not be more the 5 feet tall, but yet our CCR`s state no taller then 6 feet, what gives them the right to change our paperwork? Then the nuisance letters for fire pits? Holy cow, not one mention in our CCR`s about anything related to fire pits, but keep letting that half ass management company pull the strings. That just makes you all look so great.
Out of the 5 of you there is only David that I feel truly cares about what is happening around here, but has given up and is powerless against the 3 of you that are puppets, and one I don`t know enough to say anything about.
Sometimes I wonder if we really did the correct thing by taking out the old board, other then the trust issue, they ran this place much better and cleaner!
Brian, Before you can take on something just a little bigger then you, maybe try and take care of the little things first.
P.S. do a little research about the horses behind you, they are looking to put in townhouses, multi-family dwellings. And read the rest of the letter, how about that train station right there at Langtree and 115, nice easy escape back to Charlotte.
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Re: Rocky River Rd. to become 4 Lane??? « Result #10 on Aug 25, 2009, 11:07pm »
Danielle,
I myself have some concerns with the development of Rocky River Rd. Furthermore the concern I have is that the horse pasture behind the odd number homes on Elrosa in Phase 1 will be sold and developed into some sort of Shopping center, most especially if Rocky River is expanded to more lanes. It seems that Mooresville has already made it clear that this is what is going to happen and it is what it is. There must be something we can do to get our voice heard but at this point Im just not sure what that is.
Rocky River Rd. to become 4 Lane??? « Result #11 on Aug 25, 2009, 11:05am »
Last week The City of Mooresville had a public informal Workshop about the East-West Connector. Part of that plan included possibly making Rocky River a four lane at some time in the future. This was put out as a plan to be funded by developers at a later date. However, when I complained about the location, I was told that this information was announced in general a year and a half ago and that the plan was proceeding as it was. I hope that the city planners will listen to a group plan to move the planned four lane to a more industrial road such as Johnson Dairy. I hope that the Hoa board will get a petition together opposing the 4 land as currently planned. My concern is home values. Particularly in the north parts of the Neighborhood. In order for a 4 lane to fit, the state might have to use the eminent domain rights. Who wants to hear the noise, smell the pollution or deal with the crime accompanying such progress?? Would any one else like to discuss this?
Adult Basketball « Result #14 on Jun 25, 2009, 2:12pm »
If anyone is interested in playing some half court pick up basketball on Thursday nights (starting tonight) thru the month of July, please send me a message.
Re: Play Groups « Result #15 on Jun 12, 2009, 12:26pm »
my wife and I moved in last year and found the same thing. My wife stays home and she regularly takes our daughter (2 years old) to one of the local parks (there is a real nice new park off kistler mill farm road) or now that the weather is warm, the pool. If you are looking for something like that shoot me an email and I will get your information to my wife. If you are new to the area, my wife might have some other suggestions for you.
Play Groups « Result #16 on Jun 10, 2009, 7:52pm »
Can someone help me? I registered and logged into the CP Playgroup page and there is nothing going on there. I can't find anything about any playgroups. Are there any current playgroups in the community (for a child age 2)?
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