Summit Chase Cluster Association

Hello from the new HOA board of Summit Chase Cluster Board (aka Autumn Ridge Cir Cluster ) !

Thank you all for patience.  We have been collecting emails and phone numbers for our email distribution list (DL).  Thank you to everyone who has shared their contact and all who helped.  If you didn’t get the email, please reach to Ram (rks.1491.arc@gmail.com) with your email address.

Some Important announcements:

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday November 7th at 7 pm.  This is the first board meeting of this fiscal year.  The meeting is at the Neil Armstrong Elementary school either in the Library or the Cafeteria. 

Agenda:

• Ratify the budget-we will be discussing the quarterly assessment.
• Discuss the plans for community improvement through the proposals outlined in the Engineering and Arbor Study.
• Please review these on the Summit Chase website; summitchasecluster.org  Please email all questions about this plan to: info@twcmanagement.com in advance of the meeting.
• If you have problems, you can reach out to Beth or Ram

Other items of interest:

 Anyone interested in Fairfax County’s interest in radically increasing the density of Reston in the near future; please plan to attend a meeting at South Lakes High School October 23, 2017 in the Cafeteria.  Please speak to your neighbor John Nusbaum @ 1579 (johnmaria83@verizon.net)  for details about this issue.

 Happy Halloween & see you around in the neighborhood!

-Ram & Beth

Hello from the new HOA board!  Thank you all for patience.  We have been collecting emails and phone numbers for our email distribution list.  It’s almost ready and you should see our first email tomorrow.

Due to the rain today, the patching and paving work has been postponed until tomorrow, Thursday September 7th. 

We appreciate your patience during this work. 

The Summit Chase Cluster Association Board of Directors commissioned an engineering and arbor study of the common areas due to concerns about excessive erosion and run off storm water effecting common property and individual homeowners.  The study is available below for you to review how it will effect your property and the common areas.  Please review and forward any questions to TWC Management.  The board will address these questions at the annual meeting September 13, 2017.  Please plan to attend the annual meeting for this discussion as well as the election of officers and discussion of the budget.

Arbor Study and Survey

EarthMan Drainage and Erosion Report

The Board of Directors is happy to announce the completion of the updates to our Bylaws, Regulations, and Handbook. The board worked closely with the association’s attorney for several years to bring our documentation into compliance with current laws.

The updated documentation can be found at: Summitt Chase Handbook

NOTE: Please discard any past copies of the Bylaws, Parking Regulations, and Trash Regulations. The changes in the handbook supersede all other documentation.

This morning a few board members met with a representative of Colonial Pipeline to discuss upcoming tree trimming and tree removal. The board was informed that Colonial intends to complete this work on Thursday September 25^th or Friday September 26^th.

Colonial is required by federal law to maintain the easement, which means they must trim or remove trees or shrubs that encroach on the easement. A number of trees on common and private property will be trimmed or removed as part of this work. Colonial is supposed to notify the homeowners who are to be impacted. The board plans to take this opportunity to make improvements to the impacted areas. Your corporation during this work will be greatly appreciated.

The board has been working over the past year with our attorney to update the cluster Bylaws. This document is a set of rules that determine how the Home Owners Association is run. This is the first time these rules have been updated in almost thirty years. The update is necessary to remove old out of date information and ensure that the bylaws conform to current law. In addition we’re working on updating the parking and trash regulations to help better define the rules and help alleviate some of the issues we run into from time to time. Since these rules affect all the homeowners we are asking everyone to read these documents and provide feedback to the board. We’ll take comments until the annual meeting in September. At that point the board will finalize the changes and vote on the new documents. The new documents can be found here.

A list of frequently asked questions/comments can be found here including a summary of the changes to the bylaws.

The entire street is open again for parking. We appreciate everyone’s patience. There’s still a little bit of painting and some touch up that needs to be done so there will be some cones out on Monday so the painter can paint the speed bumps and crosswalks. These will be done in two halves so the street won’t be closed. Just look out for cones as you come and go on Monday.

Dominion Paving started early this morning and it working to get the sealer down as fast as possible. The painter will be here this afternoon to paint the speed bumps and crosswalks. After talking with Dominion they highly recommend that cars stay off the street for 24 hours to give the sealer time to cure and harden. First thing tomorrow morning the street will be reopened for all traffic. We appreciate everyone’s continued cooperation.