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1 HollybrookeNewsletter In This Issue From the President s Desk Community Bulletin Board Upcoming Community Events Gude Landfill Update Note From A Neighbor RV and Truck Parking AERC Committee A New Derwood Neighborhood Board Contact Info Important Phone Numbers Community Helpers Sept 2009 Look inside for the latest information on the Gude Landfill Community Calendar As dates become available, they will be posted to Save these Dates! Gude Landfill Concerned Citizens Community Meeting Thursday September 24, :30 PM Candlewood Elementary School details inside Join the Alert List!! 150 of your neighbors already have joined! Hollybrooke List and Web Site All HOA members are encouraged to join the list. This list is used occasionally to provide notifications of Hollybrooke events and neighborhood watch alerts. To sign up and to see the latest community information go to the community website This is your neighborhood newsletter. Please send any ideas, articles or comments to: newsletter@hollybrooke.org Annual Picnic September 26, :00 PM details inside Board Meetings Board Meetings are normally held on the first Monday of every month at the residence of a Board member. Meetings are open to all homeowners and you are encouraged to attend. All meetings begin at 7:00 P.M. A sign is posted along Monona and Indianola. Call a Board member or check to confirm times, dates, and locations. Upcoming board meetings September 14 - Claire McCullough s house October 5 Nick Radonic s house November 2 - Candlewood ES (budget meeting) Questions? Concerns? Come to the next Board meeting! 1

2 A Note from Nick Radonic - DSS HOA Board President My family is having a pleasant summer and I hope that extends to all of you as well. But school is coming -- too soon I'm sure. The HOA Board is working with MTM to correct a filing oversight that has left several parcels of common property not registered to us. The builder has agreed to help complete the transfer process, begun at the startup of the community. This came to light when a tree blew over on one of those common properties onto homeowner property and we asked MTM for boundary information. The GLCC's efforts to shape the future of the Gude Drive Landfill with the county's Department of Solid Waste are to be highlighted in a community meeting on September 24th. Please attend to meet those involved. Come hear about the status and have some say about the issues and future of the landfill. We have the HOA Annual Picnic planned for Saturday, 9/26 (rain date on Sunday 9/27). The time and place are at 4:00 pm at the green on Monona Drive. Please come out to the gathering. It's been a hit with youngsters for the past couple of years. The annual budget planning is starting to happen. Please see the hollybrooke.org website for the existing budget, which will be the basis for next year's planning and send comments to: treasurer@hollybrooke.org Verizon FIOS fiber optic cable is in the ground. I've also seen it being installed across 355, towards College Gardens School, so they must be doing a large portion of Rockville. Some of the commissioning has been done, as they have put in their junction/splitter boxes. There has been some preliminary advertising from Verizon, so for those interested it looks as though service will soon be available. Nick Radonic - president@hollybrooke.org Your Community Bulletin Board Would you like to tell neighbors about a service you provide? Do you want to know about service providers that neighbors have used? Go to Hollybrooke.wordpress.com to post comments on issues, post recommendations on service providers or services, post lost and found notices, post items for sale or donations. Upcoming Community Events Derwood Station South Annual Picnic Please join your neighbors for an afternoon picnic in late September! The HOA will provide burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, drinks and condiments. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share. We will have a moonbounce and other children's activities. Learn about Gude Landfill updates! When: Saturday, September 26 from 4:00-7:00 (Rain Date on Sunday, September 27) Where: Green space on Monona Drive next to Plant Physiology property Who: All ages welcome! Please RSVP by September 19 to: Danielle Swallow at daniren22@yahoo.com or (301)

3 Gude Landfill Concerned Citizens Community Meeting Thursday, September 7:30 P.M. Candlewood Elementary School Hear About County Study Plans Voice Your Opinion About Landfill Reuse Ask Questions About Your Concerns Studies Underway The County has started an engineering analysis of the Gude Landfill. The tasks are relatively straightforward. First is to create a 3 dimensional map of the landfill so that the settling of the landfill can be tracked and planned activities can be precisely located. Secondly, the County will map the exact boundaries of the waste this is called a delineation study. This will answer the question of whether the trash has migrated off site. Then the County will sample the groundwater. This may involve drilling wells around the perimeter of the landfill to sample the ground water. These wells will be of 1 to 4 sizes and will go to various depths. The ground water exists in layers called aquifers and these aquifers can carry the contamination off the landfill site, sometimes a considerable distance. Water samples from these wells will be analyzed for contamination and concentrations and a plume model established. Monthly Meetings with the County Established The GLCC has set up monthly meetings with the County Department of Environmental Protection and its engineering firm to review these activities. These technical exchange meetings will provide the foundation for the preparation of a remediation plan. The County can t fix the Gude Landfill without knowing exactly what they have to fix. Now it is time for the engineers to do their thing and for science to present the facts. Community Meeting September 24 On September 24, 2009 at 7:30 9:30 P.M. at Candlewood Elementary School the GLCC will conduct a community meeting so that the facts can be presented to you, and so that you can ask questions. You live next to the landfill and it is important that you know if it is affecting your neighborhood and how. Voice Your Opinion on Reuse After all the facts about the landfill have been gathered, the County will prepare a remediation plan. This will be a plan to do certain things so that the landfill can have a future use. It will not be a plan to return the landfill to its earlier natural state. That can t be done the landfill is a big pile of waste that is going to stay right there. But the County can do things which will make it acceptable for future use. If the future use is proposed to be a big heavy building, this will be very expensive and involve special treatment to establish a big building on an un-compacted and unstable waste. On the other hand, if the future use is going to be a park of grass and walking paths, then this option may occur in a shorter term and be much more feasible from a cost and practical application standpoint. The remediation plan plays a role in the future use. The County has asked the GLCC for community input on the future use for the Gude Landfill. We need your ideas. The County Master Plan currently shows the Landfill being a park someday. But what does that really mean? When you think of the landfill as a park, what do you see? What is in it? How is it used? Perhaps the landfill is not park. Maybe it is a tree farm; maybe it is running trails or bicycle paths, a toddler s playground, athletic fields or tennis courts, or a golf course. What would you like to have there? Whatever the choice, the final design for reuse will be as much as 20 years in the making. Attend the community meeting September 24!! 3

4 If you can t make it, send us your thoughts on what the Gude landfill future use should be. You can send us an , give us a letter, or call any member of the GLCC on the phone. Below are our addresses and phone numbers. Send to: GLCC@Hollybrooke.org or contact: Keith Ligon Moravia Court Julia Tillery Indianola Drive Bob Day 7128 Grinnell Drive Dean Dozier 7613 Anamosa Way Dave Peterson 7612 Anamosa Way Laszlo Harsanyi 7228 Titonka Way Nick Radonic Indianola Drive Thank You! The entire community owes a big debt of gratitude to the members of the GLCC. These individuals spend a considerable amount of their own time working on this committee. Through their efforts the school bus depot is not going to be built at the landfill. They are now working with the county to clean up the landfill and hopefully turn the landfill into something we can all use and enjoy. Please attend the community meeting on Sept. 24. Eli Nadel - editor The following note is from a neighbor: I don't know if we are only ones who have issue with this, but it is driving us crazy. A reminder of the Montgomery County laws regarding dog poop would be appreciated. I am still chasing people and their dogs off my lawn. I recently asked one woman not to use my lawn and she replied, "Well, I am going to clean it up!" in a very 'huffy' voice. As if I was out of line to say such a request. If you could include a reminder that it is unlawful to do this, I (and probably others) would appreciate it. It is unlawful to allow your dog to defecate on private property that you do not own. A person can use the public areas but not privately owned areas. The detail below was copied from the Montgomery County website: Animal Defecation ("pooper scooper" law) (Montgomery County Code, Sec (a)(2) An owner must not allow an animal to damage or defecate on property outside of the owner's property. An animal may defecate on public property or the common area of property in which the owner shares an interest if the owner immediately removes and disposes of the feces by a sanitary method approved20by the Director. Feces may be picked up in a plastic bag. If this bag is placed inside another plastic bag, it may be put out for disposal in your normal household trash. Penalty for Violation - $100 Parking of RV and Heavy Commercial Vehicles There is a new ordinance in effect in Montgomery County and it went into effect on July 1st It prohibits on street parking for Recreational Vehicles and Heavy Commercial Vehicles except for loading and unloading or short periods up to 18 hours. A Recreational Vehicle (RV) is defined as a registered vehicle, with or without a motor, which is soley intended for the leisure use of the operator or guests. An RV would be a motor home, a travel trailer, a camper, a camping trailer or a transport trailer for a boat, horse, motorcycle, race car, snowmobile or bicycle. A Heavy Commercial Vehicle is heavier than 10,000 pounds, or longer than 21ft, or higher than 8 ft, or has a rated capacity for more than one ton. Vans and pickup trucks are considered Light Commercial Vehicles and are OK for on-street parking. To report a possible violation, call the non-emergency number for the Montgomery County Police. It is Enforcement of this ordinance can result in a $75 fine, impoundment fees and daily storage costs. Parking of RVs in the driveway or anywhere on the property is prohibited by the HOA Covenants. Article VII, Section 7d says no junk vehicle, unlicensed or inoperable motor vehicle, trailer, camp truck, house trailer, boat or other similar machinery, or equipment of any kind or character shall be kept on the property nor shall the repair or extraordinary maintenance of automobiles or other vehicles be carried out thereon. 4

5 From the AERC Committee The Architectural and Environmental Review Committee (AERC) tracks the compliance issues with the Homeowner's Covenants we all signed when we bought into the neighborhood. Owners apply for permission to make material changes in construction such as fences and house finishes. Again, they have helped give the community a more unified look. Some of their forms and minutes are online. AERC Philosophy It is the Committee s job to get your application APPROVED, within the construct of our Guidelines and Covenants. We want to talk with you to make sure we understand what you want to do. We will work with you so that the application process is quick and comfortable. Applications received April 2009 August 2009 Apr Grinnell Drive Change shutter color Apr Bettendrof Fence Apr Gold Ring Terrace Expand deck Apr Indianola Drive Fence Apr Villisca Terrace Replace Siding May Grinnell Drive Front walk May Monona Terrace Sunroom Jun Monona Terrace Patio & Storm doors Jun Indianola Expand Deck Aug Bettendorf Fence Gate Aug Wapello 3rd garage Aug Grinnell Terrace Replace shingles Chimney Repairs When our houses were built, the contractor sometimes chose used brick to construct the chimneys. This type of brick can crumble over time, which will cause water leaks and thus headaches for you. They can be singly replaced but you will probably need a chimney contractor to do the work. This is what our Guidelines say about chimney repairs: Repair, modifications or additions to chimneys or chimney caps Replacement brick and mortar shall be as close to same color as possible Repairs shall maintain the original design as installed by the builder Modifications shall be as close to the original design as possible Driveway Repairs The same problem happens with our driveways. There are cracks and then water gets under the driveway. This can erode the dirt or in the winter, freeze and expand and cause a larger problem. If you need to do a patch repair, do it when the area is small and you will be successful. If it gets too big, there are special repair materials you can use. Verizon used them on the street recently when installing the fiber lines. Here is what our Guidelines say about driveway repairs: Additions to or alterations of driveways, walkways, stoops, or slabs Repairs and patches shall be made with a material that matches in color. If you have any questions about any of the guidelines, or the application process, contact any member of the AERC listed below. AERC Members Bob Day 7128 Grinnell Dr bobcarolday@yahoo.com Donna Parisi Gold Ring Way njshore83@comcast.net Bob Craig 7229 Wapello RMCraig@Comcast.net Dave Minier Indianola Dr D_Minier@Comcast.net Dan Navarro 7115 Grinnell Dr dbnavarro@comcast.net Paula Hadzima 7420 Monona Terrace hadzi@comcast.net Bob Tremmel Villisca Terrace bobtremmel@verizon.net 5

6 25 years ago a new neighborhood opened in Derwood Thanks to Jane, Barb and Rick for providing the original sales literature. 6

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14 If anyone has floorplans for the townhouses or Signature II please let me know. I would like to include them in the next newsletter. Thanks - Eli. 14

15 Board Contact Information Nick Radonic, President, Indianola Dr. H (301) president@hollybrooke.org Eli Nadel, '10, Vice-President + Newsletter Grinnell Terrace H (240) vicepresident@hollybrooke.org newsletter@hollybrooke.org Ninette Regan '11, Secretary Grinnell Terrace H (240) secretary@hollybrooke.org Paul Smith '11, Treasurer 7200 Wapello Dr. H (240) treasurer@hollybrooke.org Danielle Swallow, '10, Social 7209 Bettendorf Court. H (301) communications@hollybrooke.org Keith Ligon '11, Landscaping Committee Moravia Court H (301) landscaping@hollybrooke.org Claire McCullough '11 - at large 7312 Grinnell Drive H (240) at_large@hollybrooke.org Bob Day Chair, Architectural and Environmental Review Committee 7128 Grinnell Drive H (301) aerc_chair@hollybrooke.org Community Safety Committee -open communitysafety@hollybrooke.org Important County Phone Numbers Emergencies (Fire/Rescue, Police) Fire Non-Emergency Police Non-Emergency American Red Cross Center for Disease Control Emergency Preparedness Comcast Customer Service County 24-hour Crisis Center County Abandoned Vehicle Section County Bioterrorism Hotline County Community Services Division County Solid Waste County Department of Public Works and Transportation Call about: Potholes Maintenance of Trees in the County Right-of-Way Storm Drainage Operation & Maintenance Snow Removal/Ice Treatment County Executive Offices County Hazmat Hotline (24hour number) County Housing and Community Affairs County Information and Referral Office County Office of Emergency Management (8:30-4:30 PM) Maryland State Police METRO Customer information [ National Capital Poison Center National Poison Center PEPCO to Report Downed Wires PEPCO to Report Outages Street Light Repairs or Malfunction Verizon (Telephone repair) Washington Gas WSSC (Maintenance) COMCAST ROAD (7623) (x4002)

16 Neighborhood Helpers We would like to inform our neighbors that, in the State of Maryland, children must be 13 years old to baby-sit a child under the age of 8 when the parents are absent, per Family Law Article, We do not endorse any child whose name appears on this list, nor do we screen the list for qualifications and abilities. Name Carly Fumai Age Street Phone 16 Grinnell Drive (301) Jackie Gross 15 Titonka Way (301) Jobs Baby Sitting House Sitting Pet Sitting Certified Babysitter Mother s Helper Leo Kremer 14 Moravia Court (240) Judie Kuo 15 Bettendorf Ct. (301) Nansen Kuo 12 Bettendorf Ct. (301) Andrew Moore 15 Grinnell Ct. (301) Peter Radonic 16 Indianola (240) Rosemary Smith 16 Wapello Drive (240) Elissa Wollins 15 Wapello Drive (301) Dog Walking Lawn Mowing Babysitting Dog Walking Pet Sitting Dog Walking Pet Sitting Lawn Mowing Babysitting Dog Walking Pet Sitting Lawn Mowing Snow shoveling Yard Work Lawn Mowing, Snow shoveling Baby Sitting Pet Sitting Dog Walking Baby Sitting (Shady Grove Trained) Pet Sitting Dog Walking Please note: If you want to change or delete an entry, please contact the newsletter editor at (240) or by at newsletter@hollybrooke.org or communications@hollybrooke.org. Updates will be included in the next newsletter. 16

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