April Summer Scoop - Trampolines

You can now read The Summit Scoop, April 2025 edition, online. Read it on the HOA's website at https://summithomeowners.com  Scroll down on the homepage and click on the button for Recent News. (I have recommending changing the name of that button to "Summit Scoop".)

On Page 1 is the President's Report. Read it carefully, and keep last Tuesday's board meeting in mind. That's the one where you didn't get answers about trampolines. "Later" never came.

Danny Trapp wrote, in part, 

"There will also be enforcements [sic] of the display [sic] of trampolines after hours [sic]. Some have been leaving them up constantly and allowing them to come into disrepair by [sic] creating an eyesore for their neighbors and the community. I am in support of these efforts. If any of this applies to you, please make the necessary corrections  before receiving notification from the association."

What are "enforcements"?
What does "display of trampolines" mean?
What does "after hours" mean?
What does "allowing them to come into disrepair by creating an eyesore" mean?
Is it only trampolines which are eyesores that are problems?

Also on the homepage is a box titled MODIFICATIONS in large, bold print. Scary, right? Y'all better behave, or else. Right? Who wrote that? Did "the Board" issue that statement? Or did one person write it and sign it "Summit HOA Board of Directors"?

The covenants (CC&Rs) are misquoted in the first paragraph of that MODIFICATIONS warning. Art. XII, §13 does not read "no structure of a temporary nature shall be placed upon any unit or any part of the properties."

Art. XII, §13 reads, in part, "... no tent, utility shed, shack, trailer or other structure of a temporary nature shall be placed upon a Unit or any part of the Properties."

"temporary gazebos" are not mentioned in the CC&Rs. Utility sheds are omitted from the warning. 

The order of wording in the CC&Rs is important. The order is "no tent, utility shed, shack, trailer or other structure of a temporary nature". The examples of prohibited structures set the tone for the prohibition. A piece of play equipment is not a structure like a "tent, utility shed, shack, [or] trailer"

What makes a trampoline a "temporary structure" or any "structure" at all? Who says that "trampolines are classified as temporary play equipment"? Where is that recorded in the Governing Documents?

Nothing does. Except the twist in somebody's mind. OK, in whose mind? "The Board" didn't come up with that. There is nothing in recent Minutes (maybe in any Minutes) about trampolines. So, who decided that "trampolines are classified as temporary play equipment"? 

A trampoline is not a Modification. Why isn't the Covenants Committee doing the complaining?

One person on the Board doesn't get to make decisions for the Board! Why wasn't there a board discussion and vote before they set this bonfire?

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