Your HOA board is “taking steps” to make Incline Pines an equitable community for ALL homeowners– and that includes giving owners the absolute right to safe and convenient access to both levels of their homes.
Some perspective:
Owners who park ABOVE their unit have walkways to their front entry, but many can only access their lower level by going through the home.
Owners who park BELOW their unit generally have walkways to both doors.
Unit 6 is an extreme example. The family living there has NO indoor access to the lower level and to go “downstairs” they have to leave the house and navigate outdoor steps made of crumbling slate.
The board this week voted unanimously to approve concrete steps with a handrail, at the owners’ expense, to give Jeff and Mari safe access to both levels of their home.
As we consider our community’s revised CC&Rs, we propose language to give everyone the ability to do the same thing by more precisely defining “limited common elements.” Along with existing walkways, rear decks and front entries– the board advocates adding a walkway down one side of a unit as an owner’s absolute right, while limiting additional encroachment into the common elements owned by every one of us.
At tonight’s board meeting, president Heidi Burton invited all owners to help guide the discussion about what we want our community to look like in the future. The revised CC&Rs would narrowly define “limited common elements,” removing the board’s discretion to approve/deny large-scale projects on an individual basis.
Please add your thoughts to the comments below.
I favor leaving in place the definition of the “limited common area” as it was decades ago. I fear that enlarging that area will result in an avalanche of requests to do any number of improvement projects which would detract from the “look and feel” that was originally Incline Pines. The Board would be in the unenviable position of having to evaluate and judge the requested improvements . . most of which would not bear any similarity to any of the others! I recognize that some Owners want to do things to enhance their Unit’s value but, as one Owner said on our recent call, they should look to buy elsewhere where that have that latitude. Change is sometimes good, but not always. Just my two cents!
Good feedback. Thanks, Jim.
My view has always been, improvements that increase the usefulness, function and safety of the owners should always be allowed to be improved. Why would someone buy a place in incline pines if they don’t have safe access to both doors. Ingress and egress shouldn’t even be a question. I had terrible access to my bottom door at unit 39. The board approved a walkway that I paid for that makes getting into my unit when their is snowfall easier and safer.
Thanks for the feedback, Shaheen.
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