Apparently we had a car get broken into in our neighborhood recently. Officers responded to an Unlawful Breaking and Entering of a Motor Vehicle on Blackberry Cove. Someone knocked out the passenger window and took a purse and all of its contents.
Please keep an eye out for strangers in the neighborhood!!
Scott
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What is the status of repairing or replacing the front gate? Having a functioning gate may have prevented this break in or at least discouraged someone from trying.
The gates and roads are always the biggest point of conversation at the homeowners meetings. I will do my best to summarize what was decided at the last homeowners meeting.
As you may know, the roads in Foxchase are privately owned and all maintenance of the roads are the financial responsibility of the homeowners association. As I am sure you have noticed, we have had constant repair issues with the roads, and are currently in the process of repairing them again. This has put the association under tremendous financial stress, as the homeowners dues collected thorough the years have not been nearly enough to cover the liabilities. In fact, last year, we literally ran out of funds to complete all the road repairs we wanted to complete.
At the last meeting, it was the consensus of the group that we need to move towards changing the roads from privately held by Foxchase to publically held by the City of Opelika. Most residents feel that the long term financial liability of having ownership of the roads is must too great for a small neighborhood like ours to bear. To turn over the roads to the City of Opelika, we need to first install an additional surface layer of asphalt over the existing roads. It will take us several years to save the funds to perform this work. The other item that needs to take place in order to turn over the roads is the removal of the gate.
While we are several years away from being able to turn over the roads, the consensus of the group was that we should not spend a bunch of money on the gate when it will most likely be removed in the future. From a personal standpoint, we have lived in Foxchase since 2005, and the gate has never functioned properly. In my opinion it is antiquated and has not received proper maintenance in the recent past. Bottom line is there are not any immediate plans to address the gate.
Lastly, we discussed at the meeting the possibility of security cameras being installed in the neighborhood. Most people thought this would be a good way to counteract the removal of the gate. I think this is a longer term item, as availible funds are limited.
Scott
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