2 PM on Wednesday April 16 the board, along with interested community members, will be undertaking a comprehensive ‘village walk-about’, the purpose of which is to identify areas of ‘vegetation control and correction’. The concern is both visual, improving landscape results, and functional, the elimination of fire risk ‘fuel’ potential.
- Addressing an overall neighborhood aesthetic landscape goal will be focused on the removal of the overabundance of weed overgrowth, including dead and diminished berry vines. It will also look at the removal of dead and dying trees and vegetation. Consideration will be areas where vegetation ‘thinning’ in the common areas will further enhance the complimentary quality of a clean landscaped presentation.
- Removing dead vegetation will not only clean up the overgrowth of dead vegetation that diminishes the overall clean landscape appearance we see bordering our individual streets throughout the village but will also remove a great deal of the potential fire risk.
The walk-about is intended to identify areas of and pockets of improvement. If you and / or members of our community have a particular item or area you would like included in the collection of data, please let us know. Write it up and send a return email to Roger at rogerblackthorn@gmail.com. Do this by next week and before the 14th to be included in the walk.
Important. We’d also like your input on how we address the implementing the pursuit economically. Cost will be greatly reduced if we are able to field a volunteer effort. Any volunteer focus will be intentionally short in duration and on a project-by-project basis. So, as we have for past projects, hands-on participation will be an announced and scheduled community event. If you want to help, please take a moment to note your interest on the return note.
Thanks all for adding to the foundation of putting this together. We look forward to hearing back before the 14th.
Regards,
Roger