Suggestion Box

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Drop Box at WindMill Office

I would like to suggest that drop off box be added to the office at Windmill Park.  The drop off box would allow for individuals doing bussiness with CRCA to drop off keys, letters, payments ect during non working hours.  This is particularly useful for CRCA residents who cannot make it to the office during business hours.  Often time the CRCA business hours conflict the CRCA resident working hours.  For instance if the CRCA office opens at 8 AM and the resident has to return a key but they have to be at work at 8 AM then there is a conflict.  Likewise if office closes at 4 PM and the resident does not get off until 5 PM there is another conflict.  A drop box will give convinience to be able to leave business related items at the office during non working hours.  It is also a very in expensive addition to the office.

 

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Encourage Marana to ante up for bus transportation

Recent press coverage mentions requests that the Town of Marana provide approximately $189K for bus transportation to the town, including the CRCA area (Sun Tran/Van Tran, I believe.)  In light of current outrageous gas prices and environmental concerns, CRCA should encourage ToM to provide this support.  Many CRCA residents currently use the park’n’ride services and many more would if the services were expanded.  The town has reached a stage in its growth where public transportation is a viable alternative, the budget can support such a reasonable share of cost and the town should pay its rightful share of such services; certainly a more appropraite use of funds than hanging banners year-round from light posts.  CRCA, while not a political entity, should nevertheless encourage ToM to act proactively in this matter.

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Common Area at Long Creek and Idle Wild

There is an open “common area” lot at the corner of Idle Wild and Long Creek.  The parcel is 226-11-4860.  Can we beautify this lot with trees, shrubs and fresh ground cover?  It would certainly improve the neighborhood.

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Replace the builders billboard with a community message board by Fry’s

Why not have a community message board where all residents can drive by it instead of in front of the community center. It would definitely be an enhancement over the builders billboard sitting there on Silverbell at the north end of Fry’s parking lot. It might even inform more residents of community meetings etc.

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Approved Plant List

I am glad to see that we will be revising the approved plant list, however with an anticipated “publish” date of the end of July (according to the July newsletter), I am disappointed that homeowner input has not yet been requested.  We have 3 weeks left in July and that does not leave much time to solicit input, review the suggestions and approve them.

I agree with a previous suggestion by another resident that we should look at providing a prohibited plant list instead of an approved plant list.  Indeed there are many plants that are appropriate for the area (low water, non-invasive, clean) that are not on the current approved plant list and are not “common” plants that most people are aware of.  If you look at the current approved plant list you will see that the UofA makes notes on some of them that include “not recommended for use in Arizona.”

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Organize Online Documents

It is terrific that we now have most association documents available to us online, however, they need to be organized in a better fashion.  Three design guideline documents are available online and unless you view each one of them, you are not aware of which one is the current guidelines to which we are being held accountable. 

There are also “Final changes to the revised design guideline” available, however with no date on them we do not know which DG version they are associated with.

Creating a “Current” documents area and an “Archive” documents area on the website would help alleviate this confusion.

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talk up the web site

Use the newsletter to really talk up the web site!  I am astonished that more people are not registered, I don’t think most people really understand what a great tool we have!

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Font suggestion for Board report in newsletter

In the Board report published in the monthly newsletter, it would be helpful to utilize bold and underline features to highlight committee names, dollar amounts, issues, etc of particular interest.  As the reports currently appear, it is difficult to skim for specific information, it all just runs together.  Perhaps a larger font would be helpful as well, though certainly space considerations dictate font size. 

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dog park

As a responsible pet owner and also a homeowner who observes the daily life cycle at CR Community Park, I would support CR HOA working with ToM to develop a dog park in the area.  If at CR Community Park, the far southeast corner would be great – many people play there with their dogs and it would seem not to interfere with the ball fields (baseball or soccer.)  The dog park at the far north end of James Kreig (sp?) Park in Oro Valley is an excellent example.  ToM “ownership” of a dog park would hopefully alleviate HOA liability issues.  This suggestion was previously submitted to the Long Range Planning Committee but never heard anything back. 

 Thanks for your consideration – the Suggestion Box is a great idea!

 Pam Carden