ArrowCreek Road Sealing Schedule Announced

Posted on June 14, 2015 by arrowcreek411

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ARROWCREEK HOA – NOTICE OF THE JUNE 2015 ROAD SEALING SCHEDULE

Selected residential streets, the ArrowCreek Parkway Loop and fire roads are scheduled for slurry seal in the next couple of weeks. Work time is during the hours of 7:30 AM and 5:30 PM. The material to be used is a “quick-set slurry” and will dry within 4 hours of application. SNC will attempt to notify residents if any of the below dates are adjusted due to weather.

Residential Streets listed below are scheduled for slurry sealing on Tuesday 6/23/15 and Wednesday 6/24/15 (weather permitting). Owners will be notified with additional details by SNC, the road maintenance contractor, by flyer at your residence, temporary signage in your neighborhood and by cones. Please make arrangements to be off the street during this time. If you need assistance with parking please contact Security at 850-4450.

The streets to be sealed are as follows:
Flowering Sage
Rue St Michelle
Rue D’Azur
Rue St Raphael
Rue St Tropez
Rue D’ Flore
Marble Ridge
Cobble Ridge
Old Coach
Forest View
White Mountain Court

Sealing of the ArrowCreek Parkway Loop – The entire ArrowCreek Parkway loop is scheduled to be slurry sealed on Thursday 6/25/15 and Friday 6/26/15, weather permitting. To minimize traffic delays a one-way routing system will be implemented in a counter-clockwise direction; One lane will be kept open at all times. Residents are advised to schedule some extra time to get in, out, and around the community. Depending where you pick up ArrowCreek Parkway you may need to drive all the way around. Please follow all traffic controls administered by the contractor, SNC, to further expedite your travels. And be considerate and safe of the workers on the road!

Thank you for your patience during this time.

Sincerely,
The ArrowCreek HOA

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Unofficial Summary Perspective – ACHOA Board Meeting 09 Jun 2015

Posted on June 14, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Many homeowners have asked about the ACHOA meeting that took place last Tuesday, Jun 09, 2015. The board has 30 days to officially get their minutes out, but several homeowners captured their take-aways from the meeting. Ron Duncan combined their notes for the following summary: Click here

These are unofficial notes from the meeting!!!

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Analysis of Golf Course Closure Impacts on Home Sales Price Trends

Posted on June 9, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Brian Bonnenfant, Project Manager for the Center for Regional Studies, College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), was commissioned by The Concerned Neighbors of ArrowCreek (CNA) to do the Analysis of Golf Course Closure Impacts on Home Sales Price Trends study and report. It reviews property values of D’Andrea and Northgate prior to and post golf course closure. You are welcome to review it and draw your own conclusions; however, after the closing of the golf courses, property value trends follow economic trends with no difference noted between those properties adjacent to the golf course and those that are not.

Single‐family properties directly adjacent to the D’Andrea and Northgate golf course land were analyzed for property value trends before and after the closure of their respective golf courses to determine the impacts of the golf course closures on property values. The analysis is based on transactions that occurred between 2004 and 2015 (1st quarter) as reported by the Washoe County Assessor’s Office using the “RDEQuickinfo” file.

Mr. Ron Duncan, leader of the CNA group, presented the just published “Analysis of Golf Course Closure Impacts on Home Sales Price Trends” report to Mr. Sam Fox, President of the ArrowCreek HOA at the ACHOA Board of Directors’ meeting this evening. Final version is available here.

For further reference, other Bonnenfant reports are here:

Housing Market Expectations in Northern Nevada – Feb 12, 2015
LINK or PDF

Economic Forecast – 2015 Preview

Annual Presentations to Reno City Council:

Current Regional Economic Overview, April 21, 2015
Current Economic Review 2015 PDF

Regional Economic Overview, April 16, 2014
LINK or PDF

Regional Economic Overview, April 24, 2013
LINK or PDF

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Chronology/Status of Community Club Concept

Posted on June 9, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Included in the latest ACHOA responses to homeowners (see yesterday’s post) on the first two pages is this Chronology of events pertaining to the bankruptcy of the ArrowCreek Country Club and FOA and ArrowCreek HOA Board of Directors (BOD) actions since then. It needs its own recognition on ArrowCreek411 for easy reference.

CHRONOLOGY/STATUS OF COMMUNITY CLUB CONCEPT

(as of May 15, 2015)

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Chron2

*** Updated documents with June 1, 2015 dates are here. ***

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Additional ACHOA Responses to Homeowners

Posted on June 8, 2015 by arrowcreek411

The ACHOA released an update: AC Opinion- Roberts Rules vs Bylaws 5-19 and 3-3-15 Opinions (06/05/15)

The ACHOA released an update: ACHOA Member Letters and HOA Responses Updated 5-20-15 (05/20/15)

These have been added to the ArrowCreek411 ACHOA Communications Committee page as well.

Even though the ArrowCreek411 webmaster sits on the Communications Committee, I must apologize for missing the fact that additional ACHOA reponses had been added to the official ArrowCreek HOA Associa website in May.

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Many of the responses in the 5-20-2015 update have been posted earlier on ArrowCreek411 since they were individually done usually by the addressee. It has been a while since we have gotten questions and answers (FAQs) from the board (2/26/15). Here are a few of the individual postings:

Fees and Definitions Email Exchange Posted on May 10, 2015

Bob Kirtley Comment Posted on Feb 15, 2015

Morabito Letter Posted on Feb 01, 2015

Response to Mark Brady Posted on Jan 21, 2015

Illegal Voting Procedure Posted on Jan 19, 2015

…more to come as they are found….

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Don’t Forget Tomorrow’s ACHOA Board Meeting!

Posted on June 8, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Tuesday June 9, 2015 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Location: The Club at ArrowCreekremember
Agenda
All owners are invited and encouraged to attend board meetings.

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TMWA Arrow Creek Project Aims to Replenish Groundwater

Posted on June 8, 2015 by arrowcreek411

From thisisreno.com last month, Austin Wright, a journalism student at UNR and a Reno resident all his life, writes about two water projects. This first one is about our neighborhood. I’ll also link to his second article at the end.

TMWA’s Arrow Creek Project Aims to Replenish Groundwater in Galena/Mt. Rose Area

Having just been consolidated with Washoe County Water Resources and South Truckee Meadows General Improvement District after a five year wait, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority now has the ability to start improvement projects that will replenish ground water supplies and stretch out Nevada’s drought reserves.

The Arrow Creek Project, led by Project Manager Scott Estes, is one of two projects that is purposed to these goals.

“We did a little bit of testing on some wells up by the Mt. Rose/Galena area,” said Estes. “And we found some of the water levels in these wells has decreased over the last ten years.”

Over pumping and an insufficient amount of recharge from snowpack are both reasons why well-water levels have decreased. With an ongoing drought pushing into its third year, the Arrow Creek Project will store up water reserves during the winter to be used during the peak summer season.

“It allows us to turn off the production wells during the winter,” said Estes. “To let them recharge, and then we can use the wells in the summer time when the water is needed.“
Galena and surrounding areas rely exclusively on groundwater, but these wells are greatly diminished due to the lack of snowfall. The Arrow Creek Project will make use of off-peak water supply to allow the ground water wells in the area to refill.

“Really what these projects are all about is protecting the groundwater resource,” said Estes. “We need to ensure they’re a long-term viable resource for the future.”

This two phase project is estimated to cost $2.3 million, and construction is scheduled to start on phase one this summer and be completed by November 2015. Phase two will take place 2016-2017.

North Valleys Integration Project Designed to Utilize Untapped Groundwater Resources
also written by Austin Wright last month

Truckee Meadows Water Authority’s $17.8 million project dubbed, “The North Valleys Integration Project” will begin this summer and involves construction of 29,000 feet of water main to tap into the previously unused Fish Springs groundwater supply. Read more…

Related articles here may also be of interest to you…

3 Ways Washoe County is Conserving Water

TMWA Calls for 10-Percent Reduction in Water Use: Watch Video

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You want Facts: Here are Facts

Posted on June 4, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Here are some FACTS straight from the Washoe County Assessor records:

  1. ArrowCreek properties are selling at a premium to those in Sparks and the North Valley.

    a.) Thirty nine (39) properties were sold in ArrowCreek between 17 December 2014 and 21 May 2015.

    b.) Eight (8) of those properties were on the golf course (the property boundaries actually touch the golf course, not just have a ‘view’ of it). Six (6) of those were homes with an average selling price of $218.96 per square foot. Two (2) were vacant lots with an average selling price of $143,401 per acre.

    c.) Thirty one (31) properties sold that are not connected to the golf course. Twenty four (24) of those properties were homes with an average selling price of $230.70 per square foot. Seven (7) properties were vacant lots with an average selling price of $130,056 per acre.

    d.) Homes that do not have a boundary with the golf course are selling at a five percent (5%) premium to homes actually on the golf course.

    e.) Vacant lots with a common boundary with the golf course, however, are selling at a 10.26% premium over non-common boundary lots.

  2. The ACHOA (all of US property owners) currently owns 502 acres of vacant land. We haven’t implemented any of the existing plans for hiking trails or exercise stations on our land or improved the Residents Center.

  3. Only twenty one (21%) percent of our community identifies with ‘golf’ per the Pingle Report.

  4. The ACHOA Board is spending an awful lot of resources, especially legal hours at $275 per hour, to continue to look for a way to acquire the golf course should the Friends of ArrowCreek offer it for sale.


Given ALL of the above ‘FACTS,’ do we really need another 525 acres? Especially when we’ve done nothing to enhance the property we already own.

Let’s focus our energy on improving the amenities we currently have and expand those amenities by using our already available acreage. Let’s stop the wasteful energy and expenses of trying to purchase another 525 acres, NOW!

Ron Duncan

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OMG! “Green” or “Brown”: What is the Fuss?

Posted on June 4, 2015 by arrowcreek411

The discussion about having green or brown open land is a total farce.

These are REAL photos.

D’Andrea or ArrowCreek??
A:
d2

 

D’Andrea or ArrowCreek??
B:
d3

 

D’Andrea or ArrowCreek??
C:
d4

 

 

Answers:    A: D’Andrea B: ArrowCreek C: ArrowCreek

Given the nonexistent difference in open space now, why the fuss?

The real TRUTH is actually, probably, more-than-likely whether or not a convenient meeting/drinking place is available to go to when kicked out of the house by the spouse . . . or when tired of doing nothing around the house . . . or knowing the honey-do list is waiting at the house . . . But that TRUTH will be impossible to verify with hard facts since it will be full of opinions, male and female . . .

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Federal Judge Denies Blockage of Reno SouthEast Connector Project

Posted on June 3, 2015 by arrowcreek411

An effort to block the continuing construction of the controversial Southeast Connector road has failed after a federal judge denied a court order to invalidate a permit for the project.

See more here from rgj.com.

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