During the recent ice storm, several homeowners noticed that a number of the trees in the HOA had been tagged with metal tags during the tree survey done earlier this year. Both trees on private property and in the common area were tagged if they presented some degree of health concern. Not all tagged trees were considered an imminent risk. So several misconceptions need to be dispelled:
- The tags are not harmful to the trees (they were placed by an arborist). Please do NOT remove them.
- Not every tagged tree is on common area and some tagged trees at the HOA borders may not even be on HOA area at all, neither private nor common.
- Not every tagged tree was considered an imminent risk. Tagged trees were graded on a scale. Only a small number out of all tagged trees on the common area were identified as imminent risk.
Note that during the ice storm a number of trees that were not tagged suffered damage. Also note that, just as in auto damage claims, your first contact for damage to your home or property should be your own insurance carrier. If the HOA possibly bears any responsibility (unlikely even for trees on common area), your carrier will contact the HOA’s insurance carrier.
As stated before, when cleaning up your property, please do not move more debris to the common area. That’s a violation of common area use guidelines. Your board is working on plans to help our neighborhood clean up after the storm. Like it has for all areas of the city, that takes time. Thank you for your patience.
