February 1999
In the envelope that includes your current assessment notice, you'll find an Emergency locator form that we ask you to complete. Your architectural chairperson needs the information as we go about yet another painting phase. For there are times when John Marsh just needs to contact you at home or at work - as he did when we were putting in the new garage doors. Please, this is not busy work. Do fill in the form and return it with your payment.
All too soon, we'll begin painting anew. In `99 we anticipate that we'll be able to paint twenty-five buildings. This time around the wood-sided structures will be painted completely, while the stucco buildings will get only their trim painted. Of course, we'll notify individual homeowners as the project reaches them. We ask you, as usual, to cooperate with the paint crew.
The garages at the end of each building have pitched roofs. Inside these garages, the walls are supported by 2 × 4 boards strung as "rafters" which connect opposite walls (front to back).
Above these rafters is a big inviting space which many residents inappropriately use for storage. Although this space might look like a 'bonus" attic, the rafters are not designed to bear weight and should not be used for storage. Excess weight on the 2 x 4 rafters inside will pull in the walls, potentially causing serious damage, namely "deflection" or sagging to the roof outside.
Those of us on the Board who are involved in various inspections keep seeing cars parked on garage aprons. Please note that parking on your apron is restricted to loading and unloading and to washing your vehicle. Otherwise, you are in violation of our rules. Please, you are creating a possible hazard on your street.
All 184 folding garage doors are now in place. And its time to think of some simple maintenance. Every four to six months, residents should lubricate the moving components of their overhead door track. Please don't use a petroleum-based spray or lubricant. Rather use a silicone spray. The latter is readily available and easy to use. Takes only minutes.
As you pass by the front of the clubhouse, you'll note a new notice board that indicates scheduled activities. As well, there's a notice board in the pool area that is available to HOA members. To place something on it, you're asked to call Frank Toto.
...the fifteen individuals who have served as president of the HOA Board of Directors a plaque inscribed with their names has been placed in the clubhouse: from Frank Fogelman, elected in April 1974, to--Skip Kruszona, elected in April 1994.
The terms of three members of the HOA Board of Directors expire this April. Won't you please consider running! Though serving on the Board may well be a "splendid misery", it is a chance to shape the future of one of San Diego's oldest Planned Unit Developments. If you want to show true grit fill in the form that accompanies your March bill. All three vacancies will be filled at the Annual Meeting in April.
Your Board voted to approve the enclosure of the second-floor sun porch in an E- model in March 1978. The owner concerned had submitted plans to the Directors and agreed to obtain a performance bond as well as a building permit.
Skip Kruszona is looking for garage space in which to store his son's car. If you have space that you're willing to rent call him.
Dick and Sandy McIntire, who've lived in Villa Monterey since April of '74, offer the following memories. First, the home pictured in the MESSAGE was based on a picture Dick supplied. As well, the new construction disrupted the life of "many creepy, crawling critters." By way of example, the McIntires recall a tarantula slowly making its "hairy way" across the living room floor late one Saturday.
Walking through the new construction, Dick observed that it was Lowenbrau beer that most of the construction men drank. His conclusion: we were built on good German beer. He also remembers the "hub-bub" over the kids playing baseball in the green belt near the pool. There was a concern that the spindly eucalyptus trees would be destroyed if they were used as bases. And though some were, the strong survived.
The McIntires concluded that the last thing on the minds of those early residents was. planning for new tile roofs.
Editor's note: The Mclntires have since moved to Arizona.
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