Southern Village HOA

On June 9th, Southern Village developers sponsored a design charrette focusing on the village center. A follow-up presentation by the Durham Area Designers will be held on Thursday, September 6th at 5:30 pm in Room 4 of the Christ Church offices, 105 Market Street (not in the church itself). Residents of Southern Village are invited to attend. Please RSVP by September 4th to info@bryan-properties.com.

The Town of Chapel Hill has closed the bike path near Scroggs Elementary School for at least the next two months. The reason for this closure is to connect both the existing bike path and the water & sewer lines between Southern Village and the new Southern Community Park. If you have any questions about this or any other issues concerning the Town of Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation capital projects please contact Bill Webster. His contact information is below:

Mr. Bill Webster
Assistant Director of Parks & Recreation
200 Plant Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 968-2787 ext. 214
bwebster@townofchapelhill.org

To encourage the development and use of solar resources the NC state legislature has passed a law allowing homeowners to install solar panels with fewer restrictions from local ordinance or HOA covenant. The bill was signed by the Governor in July and becomes effective October 1, 2007. The following is a PDF link to the document: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S670v5.pdf

The current SVHOA Welcome Packet is Welcome Packet now available (updated).

Recently the SVHOA Board of Directors approved a re-clarification of SVHOA and townhome owner exterior maintenance responsibilities. The policy (procedures) is in four parts as follows: a memo, schedule of HOA and owner responsibilities,
HOA maintenance history spread sheet and list of approved contractors for townhome maintenance.. (A combined document of all four parts is also available.) This is an update of policy (procedures) in effect since July of 2004 and was recommended to the SVHOA Board of Directors by the Southern Village Townhome Committee (SVTC). It is intended to assist owners, sellers, purchasers, representatives, realtors and management staff in understanding the different exterior maintenance responsibilities of the HOA and owners.

Community Watch is successful when we all work together! Below are some important (Orange County) 9-1-1 facts that you need to know to help this work:

• 911 is the number to call for ANY suspicious activity
• 911 is the number to call for vandalism, loitering, speeding, illegally parked cars, animal control, disturbance of peace, crimes in progress, etc.
• 911 is the number to call for Fire & Ambulance
• 911 calls can be completely anonymous
• 911 calls are always responded to

Please know that there are ABSOLUTELY no time limits to call 911 to report any type of prior vandalism, theft, or crimes committed.

It is 100% necessary and encouraged by our Chapel Hill Police Department that we make these calls. If the Police do not hear it from us, they will not have the DATA and we will not have the protection.

It’s that simple. Dial 9-1-1. Let’s keep our neighborhood safe for our families, adults, children, pets and property.

The board is inviting proposals from HOA management companies interested in assuming HRW's role when the current management contract expires at the end of 2007. As part of the process we have issued a Request for Proposal document to the four organizations which have already expressed interest in bidding. Click here for a copy of the document.. If you know of any HOA management company which may want to submit a proposal please invite them to do so, perhaps by forwarding this message. The deadline for submissions is September 10, 2007.