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JANUARY • FEBRUARY 2020
NORTHDALE CIVIC ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER On the down side, we still have a number of the work and resolved the issue(s). Still others have been granted time extensions. If you believe, after attempting to make the properties. It is frustrating to see so many improvements identified in a letter, that you people taking pride in their properties and have done all that is needed and yet you yet there continues to be the few who insist receive another letter, take pictures of the Then email Merit on ignoring the letters and doing nothing. completed work. They lower their property values and, (NCA@Meritfl.com), include the pictures unfortunately, take their neighbors with and ask for guidance on what should be done. It is not necessary to receive multiple them. letters before calling your Neighborhood Some residents have received multiple Rep. or emailing Merit. It is better to have letters, even letters from lawyers, and have questions answered in the earlier stages of either emailed Merit Management or called notifications. their Neighborhood Representative. They have been able to describe their Reminder: All holiday decorations need to circumstances and explain their attempts at be removed by the end of January.
NCA Deed residents who refuse to make the simplest Restriction Committee Report repairs and improvements to their Happy 2020! We start this new year on a positive note. Our enforcement of Deed Restrictions seems to be working. The number of first contact letters appears to be decreasing. Even better than that, the impact of peoples’ efforts show. Many weekends, you can see people out pressure washing and painting their homes or mowing their lawns. Items stored on lawns or in view from the road are now out of sight. Things look brighter and neater. Thank you to all of those folks who have heeded the notifications and have made improvements. Northdale, after all, is an aging neighborhood and periodic clean up and maintenance efforts will continue to be needed.
compliance with particular deed restrictions. Best Wishes for a happy, healthy, These people have demonstrated a productive and successful New Year! willingness to work at correcting the Thank you, identified problems. In some cases, a group Tom Murray of volunteers have come to a home, done
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