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Design Committee fails to make corrections on “tree protections.”
After six months, I finally got a response to my analysis in October 2025 of problems with the so-called “tree protection” rules. Here’s a link to the response and my interleaved reply.https://sunriverneighbors.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/responsetomeyersletter.pdf I sent this email to the Design Committee and copied the Board: Design Committee, Please read the attached…
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Owners can now protect shrubs and flowers!
Based on a formal letter from the Sunriver Design Committee Chair, it is now established that not only trees, but also shrubs and flowers can be protected with fencing. I sent the following email confirming this point. (Jacki Bue is the Community Development Department Manager, responsible for enforcement of the…
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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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