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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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SROA sends order to remove plant protections
According to the July Sunriver Scene, the SROA staff sent letters to owners of 265 Sunriver properties asserting there were plant protections on their properties that violated the “tree plant protection” rules in the Sunriver Design Manual. If you received one of these letters, you may have been subject to…
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SROA AGREES TO REMOVE OLD, RUSTY, BROKEN-DOWN, BARBED WIRE FENCING
In the past couple of weeks, I made a strenuous effort to get the SROA to acknowledge it had a serious problem with fencing — no, not small amounts that owners use to protect their native plants. The real problem (which the Design Committee seems to have ignored) is the…
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HERE’S HOW TO SUBMIT COMMENTS ON PROPOSED PROHIBITIONS ON NATIVE PLANT PROTECTIONS
Copy-and-paste this address into your email’s “TO” field:DesignInfo@srowners.org Copy-and-paste this whole string of email addresses into your email’s “CC” field:beenen@srowners.org, burke@srowners.org, pederson@srowners.org, gillies@srowners.org, hayes@srowners.org, dealicante@srowners.org, mobley@srowners.org, beard@srowners.org, murray@srowners.org, jamesl@srowners.org, rlook31168@aol.com BE SURE TO ADD THIS SENTENCE AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR MESSAGE:“Please acknowledge receipt of these comments.” Be sure to…
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COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PROPOSED RESTRICTIONS ON NATIVE PLANT PROTECTIONS
Click here to read or download the analysis document. January 5, 2024TO: SROA Board of Directors Please thoughtfully review the attached analysis of the proposed rules limiting owners’ ability to protect native plants on their own property. If you read this analysis with an open mind, you’ll see that adopting the…
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