Whom to Contact:

For ANY EXTERIOR CHANGE: �requests should be In writing to: ACC Approvals, P.O. Box 4985, Englewood, 80155

To Discuss your ACC request:� Contact Ken or Lisa Kwiecien,� 303 804 0192 or Beverly Bunker,� 303 773 2065

For FOXRIDGE QUESTIONS:

Call one of these volunteers or email:� [email protected]

F.I.A. President:� Paul Conkling� 303 694 1057

F.I.A. Secretary:� Katie Barrett� 303 721 9280

F.I.A.Treasurer:� Burt Elliott� 303 694 2528

F.I.A. - County Line Road:� Jamie Debartolomies� 303 779 4933

F.I.A. - Cen-Com:� Mike Sutherland� 303 741 5783

F.I.A. - Covenants Consolidation: Anita Joseph-Conkling� 303 507 6740

F.I.A. - Trees Advisor:� John Riggs, 720 528 8602

G.I.D. Funding:� Bob Bardwell� 303 771 9402

Report Covenant Violations or other neighborhood problems:� contact Terry Riester, Director,� 303 773 3162

ACC Appeals: If you want to protest a Notice of Covenant Violation, contact� Barbara Fischer, Chairman� 303 694 7385� or Bob Bardwell� 303 771 9402� or� Bob Datson� 303 220 1779

COMMUNITY QUESTIONS:

Centennial City Council Updates:� www.C-Watch-News.com

City of Centennial Citizens Service Center:� 303 734 4567

Centennial Ward III Reps:� Jack Forhan & Andrea Suhaka

Arapahoe County Commissioner - John Brackney: 303 795 4630

Street Lights Out:� 800 895 4999 Have Pole #; best time is early a.m.

Parks and Greenbelts:� Scott Grimes - S. Suburban 303 721 8478

Advice - Trees & Shrubs: Arapahoe County Extension 303 730 1920

Roads & Sidewalks:� County Highway & Engineering 303 792 5016

SPECIAL THANKS to the residents of Rusty Sun who have made a great effort to reduce the number of vehicles and trucks parked on the street.� It has really enhanced the overall appearance of this neighborhood.

HAIL DAMAGE

If you have experienced hail damage this year, you may be thinking about replacing your roof.

Most roofs in FoxRidge are Wood Shake Shingle and easily repaired.� However, there are several dimensional Asphalt roofing alternatives that are approved for FoxRidge homes.� Please contact Ken Kwiecien or Beverly Bunker for A.C.C. approvals or with questions.

Rroofing materials that are approved for FoxRidge:

�Cedar Wood Shake Shingle�

or one of the following Asphalt products

1Celotex Ambassador Shake - Charleston color

2Celotex Presidential Shake - Autumn or Bark Brown

3GAF Sequoia Shake - Weathered Wood or Cedar Blend

PLEASE NOTE that these are the ONLY roofing materials currently approved in FoxRidge.� Please don�t make a costly mistake by using other products.� The A.C.C. is here to help you with these and other changes.

Why Covenant Enforcement is Tied to Property Value

by Ken Kwiecien,

Architectural Control Committee

In the last few issues of Foxtales, you have probably noticed a re-occurring theme:� How to Increase Property Value.� Ideas ranging from re-modeling your kitchen to updating your landscaping have been raised.� You should also know that the HOA is also trying to help in this effort.� The HOA is trying to help increase property values through more consistent enforcement of our existing covenants.�

The vast majority of the homeowners in FoxRidge have been and are doing a great job in maintaining not only their homes, but also the neighborhood.� As always, there are exceptions to every rule.� In the case of FoxRidge, there are a handful of properties that have numerous and substantial covenant infractions.� These properties not only reduce the value of the homes on their street, but also impact the subdivision as a whole.� These are properties that the HOA and Architectural Control Committee (ACC) will be addressing in the upcoming weeks.�

As homeowners, you too can help increase your property�s value through covenant enforcement.� One of the most powerful and effective tools in helping a homeowner with covenant compliance is peer pressure.� Neighbors banding together to encourage a homeowner to clean up the yard, paint the house, prune the trees is often more influential than a visit from HOA representatives.� If you are not comfortable with the direct approach, encouragement can also be given through an anonymous letter left in the mailbox. Additionally, you can help by reporting covenant violations to Terry Riester (Director, Covenant Control).

When we all work together to beautify our homes and neighborhood, property values will rise.

THINKING ABOUT PAINTING YOUR HOME?

by Beverly Bunker

Architectural Control Committee

Please consider these steps:

1. Getting your colors approved by ACC as soon as possible, just like a pre- approval for a home loan, so you�re ready when you find a paint contractor.� ACC�s turn-around time has been less than 14 days.� We are also contacting many of the local paint contractors & paint stores to provide them with our ACC Paint Approval Form, for your convenience.

2. Don�t choose your house color based on 1 x 1 inch color chips.� Instead buy a test quart of the body and trim paints you would like to have approved.� In July, we had 5 homeowner�s modify their approved colors after they saw test colors painted on their home.� Use of test paints saved these folks from a color they didn�t like.

3. You are not �copying� when you choose the same color combination as your neighbor, you are complimenting them.� It is better to have several houses tastefully painted the same color, than one house painted mint, peach, bright yellow, mustard, etc. in the neighborhood.� ACC�s goal is happy homeowners, with quick paint approvals while updating the look of the neighborhood for everyone�s enjoyment.

Concern over additional cost of painting a second coat?� If you are considering repainting your dark trim another dark color stop and think.� Dark colored trim will fade faster and absorb more heat, thereby affecting your trim�s wood and windows� integrity.� Thus, you will be repainting dark trim within 2-3 years.� Remember the 2^nd coat should cost less because it will go on easier & quicker, since the prep time & labor are the greatest expense.� Also the 2^nd coat usually adds an additionally 2 yrs. of life expectancy to your paint job!

5. Criteria for choosing a paint contractor: question quotes with 10 gallons of paint used on the field or body of your home.� FoxRidge homes average between 15 �18 gallons on the body/field alone.

6. Paint manufactures recommend: DECKS - your deck stain matches the color of your house, or be natural wood color.� A natural wood color usually mean a new deck or a completely sanded deck; were as colored stain covers many sins.� Reddish redwood stain gives a dated look.� ROOF PIPES � paint them brown, black or gray to match your roof color, rather than the house/trim colors (i.e. light beige, teal, green).

We are currently building an Excel spread sheet for paint colors.� Please submit your paint manufacture�s name, color name & number.� As people request colors for approval, we can give street address so you can drive by and see the paint colors you are considering in use.

Thanks for giving us feedback about this issue, and especially thanks for helping us to update and enhance our neighborhood.

LAWN SPOTS

If it looks like your lawn has been subject to miniature mortar-fire (various bald/dead patches or rings) you might be suffering from a common problem: Necrotic Ring. It's a fungus that develops in the lawn and grows, killing off the grass and leaving (ironically) a rich compost in it's wake which subsequent grass growth thrives on afterward (hence the rings and healthy grass in the middle)

Our lawn had this condition quite bad and with some guidance from the Big Toolbox people and friends - I finally began to win the battle. The first thing is to stop the cause. Leaves and organic waste sitting on your lawn will foster growth of the fungus. Particularly dead aspen leaves are known to spark the problem. After you pickup the leaves, visit the Big Toolbox for a Scotts product called something like 'Fungus Control' It's a 5lb bag & goes on in a very disciplined pattern late in May - every two weeks for about two to three applications. (The rep at Big Toolbox also advised against watering in the evening, that fosters fungal growth overnight, and also recommended a special fertilizer for the grass that specifically avoids feeding the fungus)

We did the fungus treatment last Spring. Through the Summer, the rings stopped increasing in size - but by the Fall, the dead-patches were fairly pronounced. This Spring, I picked up a bag of grass-seed (a special blend with plant-food pre-mixed in) and during one of our long rainstorms, went out there with a garden-fork and scratched-up each dead section and mixed in the seed with the soil and thatch. By early Summer - we had new grass growing in these dead spots!

Bryan Kramer, 5975 E. Nichols

WINTER GARDEN PLANNING

Its August, and you�re garden is probably looking great.� Flowers in full summer bloom, greenery in bulk, fruit trees and maybe some delicious vine-ripened tomatoes in the backyard. Sure, there�s always a little weeding, fertilizing, and pruning to be done, but the really tough work is over and you can sit back and enjoy the fruits of your earlier labor.

This is a good time to think about your Winter Garden.� Yes, I know with this heat winter is far from our mind, but fall planting time is coming up.

If you have a lot of perennials in your garden, you probably have a vastly different symmetry to your yard than you will in November.� Many beautiful summer yards will look quite dreary during the winter, but its an easy fix.

Examine your garden for plants that need hard pruning or even replacing.� Some of those 10+ year old junipers are probably pretty leggy by now, and a new plant will freshen your yard tremendously.

Select a variety of color, size (what they will be in 3 years) and texture for new evergreens. Consider: Cotoneaster - semi-evergreen shrubs with white or pink flowers with reddish berries. Some forms are variegated. Wintercreeper Euonymus - an evergreen vine forming a dense ground cover with leathery elliptic leaves. Gold Tip Juniper - small growing and add a bit of color variation.� Pyracantha - a good choice for texture, has white flowers, then orange or red berries in winter with shiny green leaves - good against the house because they can be watered with a drip and the thorns are a natural security system.�

Check with Colorado State Extension office for hardy varieties and local nurseries for when their new stock will be ready.� Happy Planning!

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COVENANT CONSOLIDATION UPDATE

We have hired Orten & Hindman, specialists in Homeowner Association Law, to take up our cause for Covenant Consolidation.� Their expertise has already paid off by informing us that we are able to institute a FINE system for continued and non-responsive Covenant violations WITHOUT a change to our current covenants.� We believe this will the most Community-friendly way to meet our obligations as a Board.� Details are being worked out and will be published in the October Foxtales.

VANDALISM

FoxRidge and adjacent neighborhoods have recently had a number of incidences of Vandalism. Most incidences have consisted of eggs, destroying mailboxes and throwing trash in the street. There have been at least three incidences in FoxRidge. Most of you have not been affected and may think this is nothing worry about.� But, you�re wrong. These child/teens seem to be roaming the neighborhood with little fear of being caught.

I think most of us (and I speak for myself at least), want the same basic things out of our neighborhood, ... rising property values, safety, civil relationships with our neighbors, and probably most of all, the freedom to live our lives in peace and quiet.� So, it is often in conflict with that feeling when you are asked involve yourself in a Neighborhood Watch. Watching your neighborhood for vandalism, crime, and �shady� characters asks that you involve yourself in what is going on outside your house and at your neighbor�s homes.

That involvement, many people reason, is risky. What if the criminals know that I was involved? They also reason that if a crime is in progress, someone else has already called the police.

But when neighborhood crimes are happening, we ALL are involved!

When you first become a victim, you go around to your neighbors and ask if they saw anything? Don�t you wish they�d called the Sheriff? Wouldn�t it be nice to know that while you or your spouse is traveling, or your family is on vacation that your neighbors are watching your house? Maybe they would close the garage door you left open?

One thing that is not so pleasant for parents to consider, is that the children or teens committing the crimes are usually from the neighborhood. Many times they can�t drive yet so they need to be relatively close to where they commit the crimes. For example, a number of the incidences have been egging of homes. King Soopers reports that they have videotape of some boys buying cartons of eggs and nothing else. The materials, the crimes, the locations add up to a distinct possibility that the children live in FoxRidge. Do you know what your kids do when they go out at night? Do you care? When the Sheriff tells you that they have taken your kid in charged with these crimes, will you be surprised?

We can stop this through several fairly easy means with minimal risk to you.

1. Don�t hunt down and or try to catch the vandals and hold them. Get a positive ID; clothing, height, weight, and if possible what they look like. The more details, the easier it will be for the Sheriff to find them.

2. It is not a good idea to stand on your front lawn with a baseball bat or firearm or worse, chase after them while armed. You may be the one that ends up in the back of the Sheriff�s car.

3. Report suspicious activities you are not sure about. You do not have to have six police cruisers with lights flashing show up in your driveway if you request that they don�t contact you when you are reporting the crime.

4. Notice who comes and goes. If you see unknown solicitors or pamphlet pushers cruising the streets, try to see if they are sizing up the neighborhood. Just standing outside your house and watching them for a minute or so will go a long way to deterring their intended activity.

5. Call the Sheriff. The Sheriff is often aware of much more than you are as far as what is going on around your neighborhood. The activity you report may be a puzzle piece they need to solve the crime even though it seems small to you.

You are important in stopping this activity. It is the responsibility of the Sheriff to arrest the people causing it, but you are the �security camera� they need to locate them.

One final note, Think about some of the reasons that you chose to live out here in the suburbs instead of living downtown where it was cheaper. One of those is safety. If people think that our neighborhood is not safe the value of our homes will decline, or fail to rise as quickly as they might otherwise. There, now you even have a cash incentive for getting involved.

The following number should be useful to you when you are reporting non-emergency calls:

Arapahoe County Sheriff - Report a crime 303-795-4711

Emergencies & crimes in progress are still dialed at 911

HAIL DAMAGE

Why Covenant Enforcement is Tied to Property Value

GET IT IN WRITING! �

COVENANT CONSOLIDATION UPDATE

VANDALISM

Arapahoe County Sheriff - Report a crime 303-795-4711