Clearview HOA

Grounds and Irrigation

The HOA maintains all irrigation and our parks (including water and plantings), but homeowners supply the water for their yards and pay for any irrigation alterations on their property, such as changing/re-routing drip heads. Some homeowners supply water to their parking strips, a few are watered by the HOA. Our groundskeeper removes obvious weeds only from the parking strips. We also maintain trees and shrubs in all front yards and parking strips. All other plant maintenance is up to each homeowner.

We provide service for contracted groundskeeping of all HOA owned common areas, plus front  yards of 58 residential properties, when access is available, pets are indoors, and pet droppings are removed. Specifically:

• Mow  all public areas and 58 lawns weekly (weather permitting), spring through autumn, and as needed during winter.
• Edge weekly as needed, being careful of sprinkler heads and to not dig up dirt.
• Blow sidewalks, drives and front porches as needed.
• Remove large, obvious weeds, at groundskeeper’s discretion, except from all private gardens.
• Fertilize every spring as needed to keep lawns healthy, vigorous, and green in color, using non-toxic fertilizer. Material cost paid by HOA.
• Thinning, shaping, hand pruning, etc., of bushes and shrubs as needed and subject to resident approval.
• All sprinkler systems will be monitored throughout the growing season and maintained and/or adjusted as needed. Turn all irrigation systems on in spring and shut off in winter, subject to resident approval. Any needed repairs will be at a time and materials rate.
• De-thatch and aerate lawns every early spring if needed, to ensure healthy, deep roots.
• Rake and remove leaves in autumn.
• Keep all sidewalks cleared of all plants overhanging them, pruning carefully.

Backflow Prevention Valve

You may get a threatening letter from the City mistakenly telling you that you do not have a Backflow Prevention Valve. This is likely not true. Before you pay a plumber $250 just to tell you that you do have one, but that they cannot test it for you, instead pay $30 to have someone who specifically TESTS Backflow Prevention Valves to do the test the City requires. In the unlikely event that your irrigation system is missing this valve, the tester will so inform you, and THEN you can hire an expensive plumber.

Your Irrigation Controller

We encourage you to take charge of seasonally turning your irrigation on and off. It’s quite simple, and should only need to be changed in fall and spring. It’s likely either inside your garage, or on an outside wall.

On Position – “Run”

Off Position – “System Off”