This is a friendly REMINDER from your volunteer Ranch Home Owners Association Board (RHOA) to please prepare your property for the upcoming winter season. In compliance with our RHOA Covenants*, we ask that you please:
Store all seasonal summer campers, RV’s, trailers, water crafts and vehicles in buildings erected for that purpose or otherwise off site.
Do not deposit leaves, clippings, waste into any drainage ditch or road right of way.
In addition, please…
Move bird feeders, pet food, trash bins indoors until bears are in hibernation. “A fed bear is a dead bear.”- MFWP
Clear any personal property and large landscape rocks/boulder from the road right of way** in preparation for winter plowing.
* RHOA Covenants Article VI Sec 7
** As a reference, the legal right of way is approx. 20’ from the centerline of the road, or approx. 10ft from edge of road onto ones Lot.
You can also review our Ranch Covenants and recent Board meeting minutes on this website.
WE ALL APPRECIATE NEIGHBORLY SEASONAL COMPLIANCE!
~ THANK YOU ~
Growing season is upon us, which means that along with robins and gophers, are rapidly growing lawns and weeds.
>> As you start generating grass clippings, please remember to keep them on your lot; they should not be deposited in the road rights of way or any drainage ditch/swale. If you are in Phase 1, please keep the drainage ditch at the back of your lot clear to allow seasonal run off to flow as designed and not flood neighboring properties. It is against the covenants to dump anything in any drainage ditch or swale.
>> It is the responsibility of all lot owners to ID and manage noxious WEEDS on your property and right of way. Cars and pets are effective weed seed vectors, so please keep an eye on your property for any flair ups. Early control is most effective. Those pretty purple roadside flowers may very well be spotted Knappweed or Thistle… For a list of Gallatin County noxious weeds and management strategies- visit Gallatin County Noxious Weed ID and Management https://www.gallatinisa.org/weed-id-control
(RHOA Covenants Article VI Sec.2)
>> With summer comes camping season! We hope you enjoy the gifts of camping season and remember that campers are allowed to be stored in your driveway during the duration of the camping season and must be stored in buildings erected for that purpose”* during the off season. This also means that winter vehicles and equipment (snowmobiles, plows, etc) be stored away* during the summer season.
(RHOA Covenants Article VI Sec 7.)