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Draft Sunriver Rules & Regs Posted
New post in Nextdoor Sunriverhttps://nextdoor.com/p/8hksw7yjmzmt?utm_source=share&extras=MTExMTE3Mzk5&utm_campaign=1770483721056&share_action_id=b18a8afc-7659-4a45-98c7-a1a5cb225361 COPY OF POST * ALERT! * Onerous new Sunriver Rules & Regulations draft posted All Sunriver owners should download this draft and *carefully* review because the devil is indeed in the details. https://www.sunriverowners.org/home/showpublisheddocument/3436/639058202025500000 As with the botched rewrite of the SROA Design Manual, this draft…
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Support Sunriver Owners’ “Grandfathered” Uses
The Sunriver Rules & Regulations has no provision to allow owners to continue a use, e.g., firewood storage, after a rule change, even though the owner had initiated the particular use when it was allowed by the rules. Take a look at this proposal for a sensible and well-constructed rule…
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Don’t wait to weigh in on new rules being cooked up
The Sunriver Rules & Regulations Update Task Team has been working behind closed doors cooking up a mess of new and revised rules to impose on unsuspecting Sunriver owners. Click this link Sunriver Rules & Regulations to download and review the current rules. The “official” SROA owner involvement process is…
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The Task Team “Stick It to Owners” Hypocrisy
Some as yet unidentified individuals or subcommittee of the SROA Rules & Regulations Update 2025 Task Force (the “R&R”) have — behind closed doors — proposed a horrific penalty on Sunriver owners who might dare to not pull a few weeds from their lot or commit other minor infractions. Here…
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Avoid $250 fine! Apply for Quaking Aspen protection approval ASAP!
If you currently have any form of fencing or other “physical” protection around your Quaking Aspen(s), even just “wraps” around their trunks, you are likely to be violating one or more SROA Design Manual rules and subject to a $250 fine, which may even double if you don’t submit an…
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Proposed changes to Design Manual “tree protections”
Here’s an email that I sent to the SROA Design Committee and Executive Board … October 26, 2025 Dear Design Committee members, On the advice of the General Manager, I’m submitting the attached analysis and recommendations regarding the Design Manual “tree protection” rules. Since the adoption of these restrictions, the…
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False info on Rules & Regulation Task Team
The October Sunriver Scene published a false and misleading response to my Letter to the Editor about the as-yet unappointed Rules and Regulations Task Team. Click here for the truth!
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Sunriver Rule and Regulation Update Task Force
A link to the list of members is posted here: http://sunriverowners.org/owners/current-task-force-projects . Neither the SROA Board President nor the General Manager has responded to repeated requests for important information about this recently established task team. There’s no information about which members are voting members, the task team’s deliberation and voting…
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Trellises and trunk wrap
Two recent communications to me from SROA staff have agreed with my positions on use of trellises around plants and wrapped protection of tree trunks. Trellises: In an email to staff, I argued that “trellises” around plants are permitted “Yard Structures and Ornamentation” as the following videos prove unequivocally that…
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“Nonconforming development”
A critical issue that I discussed in the previous post is the Design Manual rule that allows “nonconforming development.” While the intent of Section 2.02 Nonconforming Development seems clear, I should note that the Design Manual Appendix A Definitions has a problematic definition: “Non-conforming: a structure that was approved (record…
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