Power Outage; Upper CPR, portions of Lower CPR, and portions of Upper GD; 4 August 2023

Good morning to all.  I’ve had several questions on a power outage in our community.

There is a power outage in our community impacting 81 residences due to a vehicle accident.  Crews are working the solution.  Power is currently estimated to be brought back online for the impacted customers between 0800 and 1100 this morning.

I’ve attached a screenshot from the Dominion Energy Power Outage map.

Regards,

Mark

PWCA Information for Members and Residents (July 2023, Message #1) 

Good evening.  Please see below for current items for your review.

PERMANENT LINKS:

PWCA Website: https://parkwestcommunity.org/

PWCA Meeting Packets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UQIfzyb72xFD9Y7_mshcRNVRE5wv8m5h?usp=share_link

ACC Documents:  https://parkwestcommunity.org/architectural-control-committee/

Parking Documents: https://parkwestcommunity.org/parking/

Trash and Recycling Information:  https://parkwestcommunity.org/our-environment/

Newsletters: https://parkwestcommunity.org/newsletters/

Quarterly Assessment Timeline: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LpwaIZ5NVobKPDzCmuTnOy20KcwpxXXg?usp=share_link

SEASONAL LINKS:

2023 Pool Application:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X5vE-ynAfWoDrMIIYwTpEgVq7obm8MtE/view?usp=share_link 

Pool Sign-In System: https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/13576df05a6cdeac1aa3-pwcasign#/

2023 J&J Individual Home Maintenance Program:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVoOGfz0pZBZCO78YPB16S6FY–syCk3/view?usp=share_link

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1.  JULY 4TH SOCIAL EVENT; TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2023; SETUP – 10:30AM; EVENT 12:00PM (noon); POOL.  Our largest event of the season is TWO DAYS AWAY!!!!  We will be accomplishing this event in the same manner (though slimmed down in the variety of items) as in 2019 – a catered meal from Red Hot & Blue.  There is no rain date planned for this event – should adverse weather cancel the event we will request you to come down to the pool house with some storage containers to grab food so the meal doesn’t go to waste.  Thank you to the volunteers who have stepped forward and as always – more volunteers are always helpful, please email Diane Barnhard at social@parkwestcommunity.org for further information.

2.  NO TRASH PICKUP!!!!!; TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2023.  Due to the Fourth of July holiday there will be NO trash pickup on Tuesday.  Please keep your trash within your back yards until Thursday evening.  Trash collection will resume on Friday.  Recycling and Yard Waste pickup is not effected.

3. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING; TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2023; 7:00PM; VIRTUAL.  The monthly board meeting will be conducted via the RingCentral virtual meeting framework. See the website under ‘Meetings’, select the year (2023), then the meeting (07 – 20230718). Document #01-1 contains the information to join the meeting. 

4.  SUNDAES ON SUNDAY; SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2023, 3:00PM, POOL.  Please come join us for our second of two Sundaes on Sunday planned for the 2023 season!  We’ll have various ice creams and toppings that are sure to please both the young and young-at-heart!  As always, a volunteer or two for this event would be greatly appreciated.

5.  TREE AND GROUNDS CARE WORK.  The Spring 2023 Arbor Care work is completed.  We’ve also been working on removal of several trees that rapidly failed or have been recently storm damaged.  The remaining timber for the Willow Oak on lower Carriagepark Road is planned to be removed on Wednesday, July 5th.  We will also be parking on Gainsborough Drive and using a track loader to remove the remainder of the leads still standing in the stream bed.

6.  2023 POOL PASS APPLICATIONS.  For those who haven’t submitted, please do so when you can.  Please see the separate message providing the on-or-after date your passes will be ready for pickup barring any holds active at the time.  Please submit either electronically or by dropping your completed pass applications.  

7.  INDIVIDUAL GROUNDS CARE OFFER FROM J&J LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  Due to numerous requests, our grounds care contractor is offering residences in our community the ability to have the private yards maintained.  Please refer to the link listed above for details or contact myself if you cannot access the form. If you would like to advantage of the offer please contact them as soon as possible.

8.  COMMUNITY SECURITY.  While I have not heard of anything lately I thought I might remind everyone of the following.  If out-of-the-ordinary events occur and you are concerned for your safety or security please notify the Police non-emergency number (703) 691-2131 to report the occurrence.  While we advertise a Neighborhood Watch on our signs there has been a lack of interest in the past to actually set one up.  If you are interested in participating please let me know.  If we have sufficient interest we will restart the process with the County but not before we see sufficient volunteers to make the effort worthwhile.  As always, please consider leaving your porch lights on throughout the night, remember to lock your vehicle doors, and notify the non-emergency number should you experience some kind of security event in the future.  

9.  STREET LIGHTS.  All street lights should be operating normally.  Reminder, while we have periodic contractor visits to check our street lights we don’t always notice in a timely manner when street lights malfunction.  Please let the Streets and Sidewalks Committee at  streets@parkwestcommunity.org know if you notice something I haven’t spoken about in a message.  Street light status may also be found in the board packets.

10.  TRASH, RECYCLING AND YARD WASTE.  Reminder – please have your containers or paper bags out no later than 6:00AM the day of pickup.  Especially with yard waste – the truck has been through here during the last two weeks shortly after 6:00 AM and I’ve noticed multiple people setting out their bags after pickup, resulting in paper yard waste bags that sit a week on the curb.  Also – please check what kinds of items are special pickup items.  Pallets, grills, exercise equipment, refrigerators and multiple other items are special items.   See the website for the process to get those kinds of items removed for you.

11.  VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR WEBSITE AND INFRMATION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK SUPPORT.  We have had two volunteers step forward to offer to help – thank you!  We could still utilize another person to share the load in maintaining the website and several of our support structures.  We have relied on volunteers in the past and while that’s great in principle when we lose that support things start to go sideways.

Have a great rest of your evening  – hope to see you at the pool on Tuesday!  

Regards,

Mark

Tree Removal; All Residences from 4823 through 4851 Carriagepark Road Parking Spaces Impacted, Friday, June 30, 2023, from 7:30AM until complete 

All – due to the amount of parking that is required (spaces 181 through 208) and the visual aspect of a large crane operating in the community I wanted to notify everyone about the upcoming work.  Due to the location of the tree in question the crane is the optimal way to remove the tree without impacting surrounding homes located on portions of Treasure Court, Gainsborough Drive and Carriagepark Road.

Due to the area requirements to support the crane and associated support vehicles, all parking at the lower end of the large island of lower Carriagepark Road will be impacted.  Three spaces (185 through 187) will be impacted through Thursday of next week for timber storage of portions of the tree that are unable to be removed on Friday.

All impacted residences have received letters on their doors this afternoon.  Spaces are marked and signs installed in all areas.

While I’m normally much more diplomatic on the parking aspects of tree work , this time I will be direct.

PLEASE ENSURE ALL VEHICLES ARE REMOVED ON FRIDAY MORNING.

If you live in the area, please remind your neighbors.  Renting a crane is a massive expense – literally every minute on our clock is around ten dollars so there cannot be work slowdowns or stoppages caused by our inaction.  I do not plan on knocking on doors Friday morning – we will just relocate your vehicle if it is parked in any of the spaces (181 through 208) and charge the residence identified on the permit.

Thank you in advance for your support in making this project a success…

Regards,

Mark

PWCA Information for Members and Residents (May 2023, Message #2) 

Good afternoon.  Please see below for current items for your review.

PERMANENT LINKS:
PWCA Website: https://parkwestcommunity.org/
PWCA Meeting Packets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UQIfzyb72xFD9Y7_mshcRNVRE5wv8m5h?usp=share_link
Parking Documents: https://parkwestcommunity.org/parking/
ACC Documents: https://parkwestcommunity.org/architectural-control-committee/
Newsletters: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e3sSwLuvg3GlRM6oGY_bylxPtVRFeJwJ?usp=share_link
Quarterly Assessment Timeline: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LpwaIZ5NVobKPDzCmuTnOy20KcwpxXXg?usp=share_link

SEASONAL LINKS:
2023 Pool Application: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X5vE-ynAfWoDrMIIYwTpEgVq7obm8MtE/view?usp=share_link
Pool Sign-In System: https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/13576df05a6cdeac1aa3-pwcasign#/

2023 J&J Individual Home Maintenance Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVoOGfz0pZBZCO78YPB16S6FY–syCk3/view?usp=share_link
2023 Atlantic Pool Service Lifeguard Employment Flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1niN_iNcbb4EK-tyYa0AwNLc7YmVqSth3/view?usp=share_link

INFORMATION ITEMS:

1.  2023 POOL PASS DISTRIBUTION; FINAL DISTRIBUTION BEFORE OPENING DAY; TONIGHT; 6:30PM – 7:00PM, POOL PARKING LOT.  FINAL DISTRIBUTION IS TONIGHT BEFORE TOMORROW’S OPENING DAY!  If your application was submitted by April 30th and is not being held for a specific reason your passes are ready for pickup.  41 residences have packets to pick up currently.

2.  2023 POOL OPENING DAY; TOMORROW!!!!!; SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2023; 11:00AM.  Opening Day is TOMORROW!!!  Hope to see you there.  We’ll have some hot dogs, chips and the first of two Sundaes on Saturday for the season.  Please come enjoy the environment!

3.  GRADUATION EVENTS AT EAGLEBANK ARENA, THROUGH JUNE 13, 2023.  Graduation season is here and we will see increased traffic impacts on our roads.  Please see our website for the list of the 35 graduations planned.  Anticipate major traffic delays before and after each event so plan accordingly when you travel from/to our community.

4.  BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING; TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2023; 7:00PM; VIRTUAL.  The monthly board meeting will be conducted via the RingCentral virtual meeting framework. See the website under ‘Meetings’, select the year (2023), then the meeting (06 – 20230620). Document #01-1 contains the information to join the meeting. 

5.  PARK WEST PAGES, MAY 2023 EDITION.  The May 2023 edition of Park West Pages has been released – please see the website for the document.  The Communications and Hospitality Committees will each have some hard copies of the edition if you’d like a printed copy.  The hard copies will be available on-or-after May 15, 2023.

6.  TREE AND GROUNDS CARE WORK.  The Spring 2023 Arbor Care work is near the completion with one more tree removal scheduled and some fertilizations still to occur.  We have also had to remove some trees that rapidly failed or were storm damaged.  We have published guidance on what drives us for tree removals – that may be found on our website.  In principle we are removing dead or rapidly failing trees as identified by our professional arborists, then trees recommended in principle – these are trees beyond their life-cycle for our environment with attendant risk to homes, vehicles, or community assets.  We do have plans to re-introduce trees more suitable to our environment – those plans are necessarily subservient to removing liability trees.

7.  2023 POOL PASS APPLICATIONS.  For those who haven’t submitted, please do so when you can.  Please see the separate message providing the on-or-after date your passes will be ready for pickup barring any holds active at the time.  Please submit either electronically or by dropping your completed pass applications.  

8.  INDIVIDUAL GROUNDS CARE OFFER FROM J&J LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  Due to numerous requests, our grounds care contractor is offering residences in our community the ability to have the private yards maintained.  Please refer to the link listed above for details or contact myself if you cannot access the form. If you would like to advantage of the offer please contact them as soon as possible.

9.  LIFEGUARD EMPLOYMENT REQUEST.  Atlantic Pool Service is looking for lifeguards to work this season.  Please refer to the link listed above for details or contact myself if you cannot access the form.

10.  TRASH, RECYCLING AND YARD WASTE.  Reminder – please have your containers or paper bags out no later than 6:00AM the day of pickup.  Especially with yard waste – the truck has been through here during the last two weeks shortly after 6:00 AM and I’ve noticed multiple people setting out their bags after pickup, resulting in paper yard waste bags that sit a week on the curb.

11.  GROUNDS CARE REMINDERS. Spring growing is definitely here and we have started our mowing program for the season. Please keep the following in mind: #1 – keep your vehicle bumpers off the curb during mowing days as the crew cannot mow, edge or trim (as appropriate) when your vehicle is parked on top of the turf. #2 – For those of you who have landscaped up to the sidewalk – you are responsible to keep the sidewalk edge nearest your residence clean if the edger cannot be operated safely. #3 – Keep all items stored inside your fence / or your property for those without rear fences. See the ACC and ECC Rules for additional information.

12.  VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR WEBSITE AND INFRMATION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK SUPPORT.  We have had two volunteers step forward to offer to help – thank you!  We could still utilize another person to share the load in maintaining the website and several of our support structures.  We have relied on volunteers in the past and while that’s great in principle when we lose that support things start to go sideways.

Have a great rest of your day or evening!  

Regards,

Mark