Glenmore Community Association

GCA Newsletter                  November 20 2012

In This Issue
GCA Board Nominations
Leaf Clean-up Schedule
What is "Lots 24-27 Final"?
Association Complaint Procedure
Glenmore Water Tank
Christmas Tree Pickup

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Greetings!

We are pleased to provide this month's email newsletter from the Glenmore Community Association. As always, we welcome your feedback.   

 

GCA Board Nominations
Checkmark Three new board members will need to be elected at the February 21, 2013 Annual Meeting of the GCA.  Cole Hendrix (2011 president) has been asked to chair a Nominating Committee.  If you, or someone you know, would be interested in becoming a GCA board member, please let Cole know at nominations@glenmore-community.org, or call him on 295-5295 prior to January 10, 2013.
Leaf Clean-up Schedule

Below is the schedule for this year's GCA Leaf Clean-up. Please have leaves piled up within 8 feet of your roadside by 8:00 A.M. on your indicated date, but not on the road itself or near your mailbox or walking path.  All listed pick-up dates are Mondays, allowing homeowners to collect leaves over the weekend.  


We will collect on the indicated streets during the week shown, with the precise schedule left up to the contractor and the weather. Since we will be using a vacuum hose system, bagged leaves, brush, shrubbery or any other debris will not be collected.  Please do not pile leaves on any GCA common area, especially the Piper Way median, or any vacant lot.


What is "Lots 24-27 Final"?

Once again Albemarle County has sent to residents of Glenmore a somewhat mysterious notice referring to a development proposal called "Glenmore Lots 24-27 Final". In fact this is a revision of the application earlier this year by developer Neal Sansovitch, to develop four lots on part of the Leake section of Glenmore. 

 

Parcel 94-74 (see sketch of existing parcels) lies at the northernmost part of the Leake section, to the east of the new loop road, and is already approved for four residences.  Neal has requested that the adjacent Parcel 94-73, a 2-acre rural parcel fronting Running Deer Road, be added into Glenmore, providing more room to access one of these lots via a small spur road off the current emergency access roadway. A screened fence would be constructed adjacent to Running Deer Road.
Two-Acre Lot
Since parcel 94-73 is not within the approved Glenmore Planned Residential Development (PRD), it first must be re-zoned from Rural to PRD, so the proposal would have to be approved by both the Albemarle Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors, and there will probably have to be a public hearing. 

 

It should be noted that the Village of Rivanna Community Advisory Council, which includes several Glenmore and Running Deer Road residents, has stated its opposition to the application, which they see as creeping of the Development Area boundary, being inconsistent with the county's Comprehensive Plan.

 

The Planning Commission is scheduled to review the application on December 18.

 

Association Complaint Procedure
We hope you don't have any complaints about the way the GCA conducts itself!  But if you do, there is a new Virginia law which requires all homeowners associations to have an 'Association Complaint Procedure'.  This doesn't address decisions made in the normal course of carrying out duties, such as maintenance activities, but allows both residents and non-residents to complain when an action by the GCA is believed to be inconsistent with applicable Virginia laws, in particular the Virginia Property Owners Association Act. This complaint procedure also provides for an unsuccessful complainant to record their complaint with Virginia's Common Interest Community Ombudsman. The procedure was approved at the GCA Board's November meeting, and  is available in the Forms section on our website.

 

  Glenmore Water Tank
The Albemarle County Service Authority (ACSA) has come to an agreement with Albemarle County and East Rivanna Fire Company to permit the location of a new water tank on the fire station property adjacent to Glenmore.  Although it is still early in the planning process, the intent is to use a ground-level tank  to provide a few day's water supply to Glenmore (and to any future Rivanna Village) in the event of a disruption in the single water supply line which currently feeds our community from Pantops. Most communities have alternate water feed lines, but ours does not, so we are vulnerable to an accidental rupture or contamination of our water supply.  The plan is contingent upon the support of Glenmore residents, so the ACSA will be arranging a community meeting on the subject at some time. Our thanks to resident Jim Colbaugh, previous ASCA board member, who has been pursuing this matter.

Christmas Tree Pickup
Advanced notice - plan for your used Christmas trees to be picked up by the GCA from the roadside starting January 2.  We will confirm arrangements in the December newsletter.  Meanwhile have a happy Thanksgiving!