Annual Meadow Walk Community Garage Sale: Sat, April 7th, 8am-Noon
Meadow Walk residents will be holding our Annual Community Garage Sale in Sarasota this Saturday from 8am to Noon. Come check out all the goodies from this community of 65 homes, located just east of the beautiful Celery Fields on Palmer Boulevard.
Directions from I-75:
Take Exit #210 for Fruitville Road and head east on Fruitville Road to the light at Coburn Road (you’ll see the Sarasota County Library on the corner). Turn right on Coburn Road (heading south) and follow it as it winds around. You’ll come to a “Stop” sign at Palmer Boulevard. Turn left on Palmer Boulevard (heading east), and follow it past the Celery Fields until you come to a neighborhood (Meadow Walk) on the right-hand side. Turn right onto Meadow Breeze Lane and wander around the neighborhood to pick up all the stuff you can’t live without at bargain prices!
Here’s What to Do Afterward
If you’re looking for a great way to spend the afternoon, time your visit to Meadow Walk so that you can head across the street and enjoy the fantastic animals of Big Cat Habitat. They open at Noon, and you’ll have an unforgettable experience seeing the beautiful, exotic animals that they care for. Tell them their neighbors at Meadow Walk sent you!
2017 Annual General Meeting
Notice of Annual Meeting
To be held:
December 13th, 2017
Fruitville Library
7 p.m
TO ALL RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF MEADOW WALK:
Your presence and participation at our Annual Meeting is essential. It is imperative that we have a quorum (33 RESIDENTS) to conduct business. Please make it a point to be present and to share your concerns and ideas.
Board of Directors Vacancies:
Unfortunately, one of our board members needed to resign this year. This means we will again have two (2) vacancies on our HOA board. Please seriously consider volunteering to serve a two-year term. We need a complete board to continue functioning successfully. Click here to download a Candidate form. Please fill out the form and mail them to Meadow Walk HOA, Inc., P.O. Box 51533, Sarasota, FL 34232, or save a stamp and walk them over to Gary Walsh at 1033 Meadow Breeze Lane, or email to meadowwalkhoasrq@gmail.com, by November 22, 2017.
Not having a full membership of at least five members on the Board always presents the probability of not having a quorum to conduct official business. Please consider joining our Board of Directors team. This is a volunteer service to our neighborhood and we recognize that the members of the Board also have their personal professions and affairs to attend to. There will be times when one or two members may be unavailable or out of town. A full board will help guarantee a quorum whenever needed. Not having a quorum can result in not being able to meet to officially address our HOA obligations.
Funds and Budget:
Funds: Current funds available will cover payables and expenses through the end of 2017. This year in addition to the regular monthly maintenance items, we also paid for the removal of the entrance palms that were becoming dangerous and very dirty. We will be replanting in the new year.
Budget: We have projected our 2018 budget to cover contingencies, increasing costs and any other special project expenses for our community of Meadow Walk; the budget will be discussed at the annual meeting.
Assessment of Homeowners Dues:
The 2017 HOA fee was $600 annually. The Board agreed to revisit whether the fees could be reduced for the 2017 annual fees, which was discussed at the last Board meeting. Since our costs have remained at the same level as our previous year, our projections indicate that the annual dues for 2018 should continue to be $600.00 per Lot. In this way, we will be able to have monies for work on the banks around the lakes and bring the preserve back into compliance.
Collection of Assessment Dues:
Our bylaws specify that the full annual assessment is due and payable every January of the new calendar year. Consideration was made to allow for the semi annual payment of dues, however this system was generally unsuccessful.
We ask all of you, our neighbors, to please come to this very important meeting.
We look forward to seeing you.
Your Meadow Walk HOA Board,
Gary Walsh, Diane Treharne, Sharon Stringer, Rita Bennett, David Johnson
Community Garage Sale This Saturday
Note to Meadow Walk residents: Hopefully you spotted our “save the date” email a few weeks ago. If not, please contact us to make sure your contact info is up to date.
It’s time for our annual community-wide garage sale!
As in previous years, we’ve coordinated with Palmer Glen and The Enclaves, so we expect a decent amount of traffic coming through.
The event will run from 8am to 1pm.
It’s a great time to get rid of all the junk that you moved into the garage during your Spring Cleaning!
URGENT: We must ACT to Protect Our Property Values
Update: More Action Required
Tuesday, January 31, 2017: Our community was well represented amid the hundreds who showed up (ABC 7’s estimate) at last night’s “Neighborhood Workshop” to oppose the proposed Recycling Center project near the Celery Fields.
>200 people last night at the Neighborhood Workshop for a proposed Recycling Center @ Palmer Blvd & Apex Road in #SRQ #CeleryFieldsDump pic.twitter.com/o6YAZYvh5K
— David G. Johnson (@TheDavidJohnson) January 31, 2017
But this is only the beginning of the fight to prevent this project from being built. As of last night, the developer, Mr. James Gabbert of TST Ventures, LLC, has not yet formally applied for the property’s rezoning from OUR (“Open Use Rural”) to ILW (“Industrial, Light Manufacturing, Warehouse”), nor for the Special Exception which would be required to develop a Recycling Center on the parcel.
But Mr. Gabbert and his representative, Mr. Bo Medred of Genesis Planning, through their presentation and their responses during the subsequent Q&A session, indicated their commitment to filing the necessary applications and seeing the process through to its conclusion. This process will likely take months, and at some point in the future a hearing will be scheduled before the Sarasota County Planning Commission, at which time a decision will be made about whether or not to recommend that the Sarasota County Commissioners approve the petitions.
Restaurant Depot Public Hearing This Thursday, February 2nd, 6:30PM
In the meantime, the Sarasota County Planning Commission will hear conduct a public hearing this Thursday on a separate project which is already much further along in the process: Rezone Petition 16-33, for the proposed “Restaurant Depot” on the northwest corner of Palmer Boulevard & Apex Road.
Since this is a formal public hearing, and not a Neighborhood Workshop, comments from residents who attend will be much more likely to have an impact. Please consider attending this meeting.
You can see all the details of this Rezone Petition here.
Where: Sarasota County Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Boulevard, Sarasota (Map)
When: Thursday, February 2nd, 6:30pm
What: Public Hearing
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Your attendance at Monday’s “Neighborhood Workshop” can make a difference!
Where: Church of Hope, 1560 Wendell Kent Rd, Sarasota, FL 34240 (Map)
When: Monday, January 30, 2017, 6pm
What: Public Meeting
In case you aren’t aware, a developer has already begun construction on a “Waste Transfer Station” at the corner of Porter Road & Palmer Boulevard, less than a mile west of Meadow Walk.
In addition, however, they have applied for a “Special Exception” in the zoning of that property and an adjacent chunk of land. This exception, if granted by the Sarasota County Planning Commission, would allow them to construct a 16-acre Recycling Center.
Documents filed with the planning commission indicate that waste will be piled as high as 35 feet, and reports from members of the Meadow Walk HOA Board who were in attendance at a recent similar meeting indicated that the developer plans to build an 8-foot-high wall to obscure the waste from view. Of course, this means that only the bottom 8 feet of the 35-foot high piles of debris will be blocked from view.
In addition to being an eyesore, this project will, if approved, bring with it as many as 75 trucks per day hauling construction waste and other debris to and from this property. You can imagine the traffic from this, as well as the noise, the odors, and the threat to our property values that this project represents.
This includes an undetermined number of dump trucks and landscaping trucks bringing in debris daily, resulting in approximately a dozen semi-trucks hauling away debris every day. They will have dump trucks, loaders/backhoes/tractors with claws and equipment to break up large pieces of concrete, trees limbs, and other debris.
They can call it what they want but it is a dump that will be unsightly, noisy, and will certainly have a negative effect on all of our property values.
Your attendance at this meeting can help our voices be heard!
This meeting takes place tomorrow (Monday, January 30th) at Church of Hope. Please join your fellow Meadow Walk homeowners as we speak up to prevent this project from being approved.
Note: A huge “thank you” to Sharon Stringer & Gary Walsh from the Meadow Walk HOA Board of Directors for representing us at the last neighborhood workshop about this project. Their reports contributed to the substance of this post. We hope you’ll let your voice be heard at this meeting also!
Proposed Changes That May Affect Your Property
Tonight, 2 separate meetings will be held locally to discuss potential zoning changes that may have an impact on your property value and quality of life here in Meadow Walk.
Proposed Recycling Center Scheduled for Monday, Jan., 30th @6:00pm
A developer has proposed a plan to develop a recycling center at the corner of Palmer Boulevard & Porter Road. This is less than one mile away from our community, due west of the Meadow Walk main entrance. Apparently, this parcel is already approved to be developed into a waste transfer station, and the developer, TST Ventures, LLC, hopes to modify the parcel’s zoning so that the recycling center can be developed there as well.
Would a waste transfer station & recycling center be good for our neighborhood?
As you might imagine, a waste transfer station & recycling center may bring with it smells and noise which are guaranteed to not be appealing. Since our community is the one closest to this center, it behooves us to be actively involved in the discussion.
Monday, Jan., 30th meeting takes place at 6pm at the Church of Hope.
The address is 1560 Wendell Kent Rd, Sarasota, FL 34240 (Click here for a Google map)
You can see the information filed by the developer here.
It should be noted that TST Ventures, LLC has previously attempted to develop a similar project on a different parcel at 700 Cattlemen Road, and was unsuccessful.
Proposed Restaurant Depot
The other meeting that takes place this evening is a “Neighborhood Workshop” to discuss a zoning change at Palmer Boulevard and Apex Road. The change is being requested by a developer who proposes to build a “Restaurant Depot” on the northwest corner of that intersection.
This meeting takes place at 6pm at Tatum Ridge Elementary School.
Check out the information filed by the developer here.
If you have questions or comments about these meetings, let’s have a discussion on Facebook.
Annual Meeting Dec. 5, 2016 Fruitville Library @ 7 p.m.
TO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS OF MEADOW WALK:
Your presence and participation at our Annual Meeting is essential. It is imperative that we have a quorum to conduct business. Please make it a point to be present and to share your concerns and ideas.
If you are attending the meeting, your ballot will be handed to you at sign in. Bring any proxies with you that your neighbors might have given you and they will be exchanged for a ballot at sign in. This will allow for any nominations from the floor.
AGENDA
1. Call to order/welcome/introductions.
2. Calling of the Roll and establishing a Quorum.
3. Appointment of Inspectors of Election.
4. Reports from officers.
5. Election of Directors; nominations from the floor
6. Financial report and discussion.
7. Old Business.
10. New Business.
11. Homeowner comments
12. Election results
13. Adjournment.
Our annual power washing is scheduled to start on Friday November 4th, and continue on Saturday the 5th.
All those who back onto the wall on Palmer Boulevard, please make sure all your tree limbs and bushes are cut back and away from the wall to allow access, so we may clean the wall properly and check for any potential issues.
We will also be cleaning all the gutters, so please have all vehicles out of the gutters to allow us to access them.
If anyone is interested in having these people cleaning their driveway or walkway or side walk while they are here, you can contact Stan at Pressure Perfect, directly at 941-302-3405, and make your own arrangements.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Fall 2016 Reminders:
- PETS: Pick up after dogs.
- LIGHTING: It is getting darker earlier and the days shorter, please check your light standards to make sure they are lighting up. If you notice an FPL Street light is out, please contact FPL at 917-0708 and report the closest address if there is no number on the post. We have had some more vehicle break ins and the more lighting we have the more of a deterrent it is for thieves.
Halloween is coming… Safety Fi rst! - GARBAGE: Garbage and recycle bins cannot be put out until after 4 on Monday, and has to be taken in before 10 am Wednesday. Also please secure your recyclables as much as possible to help the contents from blowing all over the street on windy days.
Someone has been dropping items for garbage in people’s driveways in the early hours of the morning – like 4 or 5ish. If you are out early, please keep your eyes open for this and report.
- MAINTENANCE: We have the paint for your mailbox posts at Gary’s house. If you are going to touch up your post, please contact Gary and he will provide the paint for you. The posts are to be the same color as the front wall according to our docs. Gary’s contact info can be found here on our web site. Any exterior changes to your home or property must be approved by the Modi cation Committee prior to any work being done. You can request a Modi cation Request Form from diane@yorkmarathon.com or here on our website. Go to the modi cation tab to contact any of the members, the form is also located at the bottom of that page.
- COMMUNITY REAL ESTATE: In the last 6 months we have had 5 sales. Right now we have only 1 for sale and 1 active with contract.
- UP-COMING: Power washing the Palmer wall. Homeowners who back onto Palmer Boulevard have to make sure that all shrubbery, tree branches, and vines are not touching the wall. These items endanger the integrity of the wall and it is extremely expensive to repair, patch, and paint. We will be coming through next week to check, prior to power washing the wall. We would like to get this done by end of month. Exact date TBA. A second notice will be sent out a few days before.
- VOLUNTEERS: Please volunteer – we have several places where you could be of service. There are board positions available. We are trying to form a social committee. There is a vacancy on the modi cation committee and on the ning committee.
Get involved and meet the neighbors!
That’s it for now – Thank you! Your Board of Directors.
NOTICE
Please be advised that the Board of Directors has contracted a company to power wash the community’s outer wall. This company, New View, will bring any and all supplies needed. They will be taking special attention to any plants in the vicinity of the wall.
If you have any questions, please contact Diane Treharne at 941-378-0049.
Meadow Walk Notes March 2015
The Annual Meeting was held in December, and your new Board of Directors include Gary Walsh, Betsy Dane, Andrew Fenton, Jordan Ramey, and Diane Treharne.
As you are aware we have retained counsel to re-write our Association documents. The documents in place are obsolete and many no longer apply. In order to properly represent the community, we would like to have at lease two homeowners join the Board members when we meet with the attorney to review the revisions. We will set the review date once we have heard from any interested homeowners.
Please contact Gary Walsh gxwals1@aol.com, or Betsy Dane bonaire110@aol.com if you would like to be a part of this review.
Remember to check this website from time to time for updates and to reach any of the Board members.
- PLEASE be sure that you have a properly functioning lamppost light in front of your house. Make a point of going outside after dark to be sure your light is working. This is not only a safety issue, but is required in our HOA documents.
- Once again we are forced to remind everyone that ALL dogs must remain on leashes at ALL times. We know you thin YOUR dog is the best listener ever, but please, this is the law. This includes playing with dogs, not just walking them. This is NOT just for the safety of humans, but for the dogs’ safty as well! Also, please do not walk dogs close to houses, and, by the way, PLEASE don’t forget to clean up after them.
- Please be sure your mailbox is scrubbed clean and that the post is painted. The paint color should match the community’s surrounding wall. If you have any questions please one of the Board members prior to painting.
- PARKING ISSUES: When parking in the street (you or your guest), please remember that the law stipulates that cars must be parked in the direction of traffic. Be careful parking on curves, and please also be mindful not to interfere with your neighbor’s ability to back out of their driveways. Try not to park directly across from another car, our streets are narrow enough, and this makes driving through them very difficult. And remember, SIDEWALKS ARE FOR WALKING, NOT PARKING. You may NOR park on the grass or on sidewalks; also, please be sure your car is well within your driveway so as not to interfere with sidewalk use.
- Amazingly this week is already the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour when you go to bed Saturday, March 7th. And, if you have any lights on timers, remember to adjust them accordingly
- Homeowners Association dues were due by the end of January. For those eight residents who have not yet submitted your payments please do so immediately.
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