City Deadline March 31

Under penalty of additional fines, the City has instructed our community to fix the landscape and prevent erosion.

On March 15, the City, with good cause, rejected the 2nd HOA "plan" for the community landscape. The new plan is the same as the first submission, except it includes a new letter from the landscape contractor. Based on the documents that I have the HOA did not revise the landscape proposal plant list which has the HOA installing plants prohibited by our CC&Rs.

Because of the delays in creating a plan the City states, "We are requesting that you implement temporary erosion controls for the interim." [pdf of email] "We are setting a separate corrective action timeline for the installation of temporary BMPs to be completed no later than 3/31/21." Examples of temporary measures include "straw wattle installed along slope grade breaks and above brow ditches, straw or coconut matts placed on barren slopes, etc." The City included a photo of what another HOA in La Mesa did for their slopes.

Can Sky Ranch meet the La Mesa standard?

Despite the interim measures, the HOA is still required to submit plans to fix the issues permanently. The City rejected the HOA plans because they do not address the following:

-Corrective action timeline, identified by phases

-Plant materials selected and quantities to be purchased

-Recommendations for soil restoration- to return life to soils

-Recommendations for alternate plant materials- if applicable- for areas where the current

landscape plans are determined to be ineffective/inadequate

-Specific locations identified on the site plan that will be addressed

-Irrigation system audit

-Repairs needed or new irrigation systems needed / or that need to be revised

-Mulch and /or rock stabilization for bare areas

-...etc.

The Sky Ranch HOA settled the lawsuit with Lennar regarding drainage, landscape, and irrigation, on December 16, 2019. It is baffling that we don't even have plans to fix this yet.