| Willow Pointe Homeowners Association |
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| www.wphoa.board@willowpointe.org | 713-728-1126 |
| Willow Pointe Homeowners Association |
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| www.wphoa.board@willowpointe.org | 713-728-1126 |
A Message from the Board President
President’s Message
2010 Budget
As the year quickly draws to an end, the Board will be busy planning the 2010 budget. We are looking towards planning several community events in 2010 in an effort to help neighbors meet one another. We have no specific programs or dates are set as of yet, but we are budgeting for programs and entertaining any ideas from homeowners. If you have a program idea, please contact the Board so that we can look into it.
Open Forum
In order to streamline the Open Form portion of the monthly Board meetings, we have adopted a new protocol for all attendees requesting to address the Board which includes the following:
- Guests are requested to notify RMI of their interest in attending a Board Meeting
- No more than three guests should be scheduled per Board meeting without prior approval
- Guests should come prepared to address their specific issue within a five minute time period with one minute to summarize
- The guest will be advised the Board will take their comments under advisement and they will be notified of the outcome by mail.
Normally, the monthly meeting is the first Wednesday of the month. We may be moving this day to either the first Tuesday or Thursday of the month…possibly effective for the October meeting. If we do make the change, we will post a notice on the Willow Pointe homepage.
Street Parking
The issue of street parking, both legal and illegal, has been growing problem in the Willow Pointe community. As a Board, we are aware of this problem and actively seeking out a reasonable solution.
The background for this problem lies with the neighborhoods design. In an effort to maximize the number of homes in Willow Pointe, the builder made a choice to create narrow roadways. When vehicles are parked on both sides of the street, this creates one way traffic flow down the middle of the road. This problem is particularly acute on our major thoroughfares, specifically Willow Crossing, Trail Ridge and Pony Express. The problem is not, however, isolated to these streets. Several intersections and side streets also show this vehicle created bottleneck.
Almost weekly, the Board receives complaints regarding vehicles interfering with the traffic flow from across the community. With school back in session, these vehicles have now made school bus navigation through our neighborhood via these narrow creases difficult.
One potential solution is to appeal to the drivers of these vehicles and ask them, when possible, to please keep their vehicles either parked in their garages or in their driveway. Hopefully, this message will resonate with a few individuals that were unaware of the situations the street parking is creating.
If the ‘good neighbor’ request fails, we are left with very few options. We are currently looking to make changes to our current courtesy patrol contract and are exploring the option to have illegally parked vehicles ticketed. While it is not an ideal situation to have our patrol spending time ticketing vehicles, this might help resolve the issue. We have also made contact with a representative from Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole's office to see if there are any other potential solutions to this problem.
Again, if you are parking your vehicle on the street, please be aware of the problems that are being created. We would ask that you attempt all means possible to park in your garage or driveway.
Finally, for those of you who have complained about these traffic issues, please be patient as we are working on several solutions and hope to have the problem resolved to the best of our ability within the next couple of months.
Scott Ward
HOA President