Water Oak HOA's Spring Newsletter
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Water Oak Dr. & Morehouse Ave.
Intersection Safety Initiative
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UPDATE!
At the request of Water Oak, the town’s Traffic Engineering Department intends to make the Water Oak Drive and Morehouse Avenue intersection a 4-way stop, also known as an all-way stop. Town staff did a traffic count at the intersection and an in-depth traffic analysis. The many reasons for converting it from being a 2-way stop to a 4-way stop are obvious, all focused on vehicle and pedestrian safety. Past incidents there include: pedestrian close-calls, fender-benders, and mild road-rage.
The Water Oak Drive and Morehouse Avenue intersection is not considered to be an element of a new development and, therefore, will require an approval vote by the town’s Board of Commissioners before it can be upgraded to become a 4-way stop. However, the Town Board traditionally concurs with the Traffic Engineering Department's approval recommendations. That's scheduled to occur on May 20th, then underground utilities must be marked before sign posts can be installed. So, the upgrade from 2-Way to 4-Way should happen late May or early June.
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Dear Water Oak Homeowner, (And all residents!)
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It has come to our attention that pet issues within the community are ongoing. The below message was originally sent out 6/1/2023 but we would like to remind everyone!
We would like to take this opportunity to provide some reminders regarding pets in the Water Oak community.
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We kindly ask that you be a responsible home and pet owner and clean up after your pet.
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Unless enclosed in a fenced yard your pet should ALWAYS be on a leash and under control.
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The children’s playground is not intended for dogs. Please do not allow your pets in this
area.
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Per the CCR’s (see below) certain dog breeds are not permitted. If you have a tenant, it is
the owner’s responsibility to ensure that these breeds are not living in the home.
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If you experience an issue with an aggressive animal, please call 911 and/or Animal Control
to report it.
Additionally, management from Parian Apartments has asked that we let our Water Oak residents know the dog park located on Parian property is only for their residents. Please refrain from using this area.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
Please see the below excerpt from the Water Oak Governing Documents regarding Animals and Pets. This can be found in Exhibit “B” – Initial Use Restrictions:
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No Dogs in Kids' Playground!
Hello Watero Oak! We're receiving complaints that dogs are often being brought into the kids' fenced playground area. Dogs are not allowed there, only the children of Water Oak and their parents. Please do not bring your dogs and allow them to play in the playground area. It is not a dog park. There's even is signage there that reads dogs are not allowed.
Thanks for abiding by the covenants of the neighborhood at all times. Help us keep the playground area available only for the use it was intended.
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Water Oak HOA Board
Oddly enough, the areavibes livability rating for the town of Mooresville recently dropped from 83 to 72 points. It should be noted that both Huntersville and Cornelius received similarly decreased ratings. The main detractors were “Commute” and “Amenities”; they were rated F. That’s understandable for “Commute,” but it seems totally illogical for “Amenities” to be rated so low. At any rate, “Housing” and “Health” were both rated A+. “Cost of Living” and Employment were rated B+, and schools were rated B. “Crime” received a respectable rating of C, thanks to our Town’s great Police Department. So, the 72 rating is still in the Excellent range, and ratings in most individual categories are quite impressive. This all hints that when the transportation infrastructure (highways & streets) catches up with the Lake Norman population growth, the areavibes rating will most likely climb back up to the Super-Star rating of above 80. Meanwhile, it’s clear that Mooresville is still a really great place to live, work, and raise a family! Click blue button below for more info.
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Here’s a January 26, 2023 update on the Iredell County portion of the NC-150 Widening Project, from the Resident Engineer at the NC DOT District 2 office in Statesville. The following paragraph is an answer to Water Oak HOA’s specific query regarding fate of the Water Oak Drive subdivision entrance monument/sign.
“The current construction let date for the NC-150 (River Highway) widening project is June 2025. Upon completion of the project, you would be able to apply for an encroachment through our District Office in order to install a new sign within the right-of-way.”
Obviously, this means that despite the ongoing right-of-way clearing and the relocation of utilities all along River Highway, the highway widening project won’t begin until mid-2025. According to the project design, the existing entrance island and monument will be initially eliminated; subsequently, a new island will be created that has a different shape and will be at a different grade level.
Just before construction start, our HOA will seize and store the existing oval Water Oak sign for reuse on the new island. Once the Water Oak entrance area construction has been completed, our HOA will submit a formal encroachment request to obtain permission to erect a its subdivision entrance monument/sign on the new island that will be in the NC DOT right-of-way area.
NC-150 Widening Update
Construction Adjacent
to W-O's Eastern Side
Developments: MOORESVILLE HOUSING LLC ETAL
PIN: 4647084406.000
Name: MOORESVILLE HOUSING LLC ETAL
Tax Acres: 40.12
Zoning CM, RLS
Project Name: Evolve at Lake Norman
Development Type: Residential detached development
Status: Project is under construction
Units: 116
Multi-Family_Units: 372
Commercial_SF
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Info Source: MOORESVILLE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT:
Covenant Compliance
LettersNow Via E-Mail
In an effort to remove the delay in communication that some owners are experiencing, Kuester staff has worked with their HOA software provider and are happy to announce that it will begin sending compliance letters via email, starting Sept 1, 2021. It is important to note that violations will still be sent via US Mail for association record purposes. In addition, please remember that you can always access your personal account information directly through the homeowner app Kuester Connect. Kuester Connect is a free app available for both Apple and Android phones. If you have not yet downloaded it, please visit the Apple or Google Play Store to download it today!
In the event a compliance issue is noted for your property, an email will be sent to the email address(es) associated with your account, and your HOA web account. If you are a landlord, an email will not be sent to your tenant, but a physical letter will be sent to all addresses associated with your account. Please note, these letters will still be sent via regular postal service.
Those Doggone Lovable Dogs!
Reminder recently put out by HOA Board: Please remember that per our HOA's governing documents and local ordinances, pets must be properly leashed and under the owner's control at all times when off the owner's property unless inside a fenced-in area.
Kuester's Homeowner App!
The new "Kuester Connect Homeowner" App now available on mobile devices. That's the App search name on Apple. The name on Google Play is: "Kuester Connect Homeowner and Board" App. Using this App allows you to check your account status, and make assessment payments, or even set up recurring payments. You can also submit, track and update Requests/Violations/Work Orders, and also send pictures of resolved violations and upload them to the HOA Management staff without leaving the App! You can also set up a "dashboard" on the App for a quick view of info relevant to your account.
HOMEOWNERS: REGISTER TO FULLY LINK INTO OUR COMMUNITY!
Homeowners, please be sure to register your name and e-mail with Kuester. Doing so ensures that you’ll occasionally receive important e-mail broadcasts (a.k.a. e-mail blasts) from our Community Manager. No, this will not start a deluge of “junk mail” to your inbox; the e-mail broadcasts are important but they’re infrequent. By registering and obtaining a personal www.kuester.com password, you’ll also be able to view relevant documents that are specific to our community, such as board meeting minutes, financial statements, your account status, and community info. To register, just go to www.kuester.com; then click on the words “Homeowner Login” at the top of the homepage. The on-line registration template is on the lower portion of the login page.
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BTW: If you’re a landlord or property manager, please be so kind as to forward the occasional Kuester e-mail broadcast to your tenants who are full-fledged and highly respected members of our wonderful Water Oak at Lake Norman community! Likewise, also let them know about the existence of this informal community website that you’re now visiting: www.WaterOakLKN
Iredell County Sheriff's App
The Iredell County Sheriff's Office has established an App for smartphones. The new App is available via the iPhone App Store and via Google Play for Androids. Simply do a search for "Iredell County Sheriff's Office," and then download and install the App on your smartphone. The App's icon is a sheriff's badge. Features on the new App include: a Contact Us button, News/Events button, and buttons to obtain info on Wanted Persons, Sex Offenders, Gun Permit Info, Jail Info, and COVID-19 info. BTW: Clicking the Contact Us button will display the Sheriff's Office telephone number; then just touch that number to automatically dial it.
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Assessment Payment Flexibility
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If you're experiencing financial hardship in making HOA assessment payments during the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, please contact Kuester staff to arrange for a personally tailored E-Z payment plan.
Please Help Facilitate Mail Delivery
Many Water Oak residents are acutely aware that our servicing U.S. Post Office has been experiencing considerable difficulty in delivering mail to some homes. This is an issue between the U.S. Postal Service and their individual customers, not the Water Oak HOA. That said, the HOA Board, Kuester staff, and the Postal Manager have recently dialogued about this situation.
First of all, our subdivision has long been enjoying and will continue to enjoy curbside mail delivery—a luxury that most newly constructed subdivisions do not have. Unfortunately, postal workers have been unable to deliver mail to as many as twelve Water Oak homes per day due to parked cars blocking curbside mailboxes. In such cases, the mail is returned to the post office and a new attempt to deliver is made the next day.
To help alleviate this situation, the Postal Manager has asked that we encourage Water Oak residents to please keep mailboxes clear of at least their own vehicles between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Every resident has at least two off-street parking spots. So, during that time period, we hope residents will opt to utilize that off-street parking, rather than parking in front of or close to curbside mailboxes.
The Postal Manager states that undeliverable mail is not being marked “Return to Sender,” and that renewed attempts to deliver the mail are being made. But, please bear in mind that USPS policy states that the postmaster may potentially withdraw delivery service if a mailbox is continually blocked by a vehicle(s) that the customer owns. To ensure things don’t reach that point, the Postal Manager is kindly asking Water Oak residents to do whatever they can to facilitate mail delivery between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
MOORESVILLE POLICE
OFFICER MESSAGE
" Wanted to send you a quick email about the up-tick in car break-ins we're having in Mooresville and surrounding area. Last weekend we had a group, we believe is from Charlotte, hit cars on both sides of town.
I would remind residents to leave nothing in plain sight, remove firearms, valuables, lock their car doors at night and please call the police if they see anything unusual. I was doing an area canvas in the Waterlynn Community after several car break ins and spoke with a resident who saw the suspects. He told me he saw a couple of guys with flashlights around cars, went outside and yelled at them to leave.
They just went further into the neighborhood and broke into several more cars. He never called the police! We're doing our best to catch these guys, but we need help from the community to catch these groups in the act. "