The Annual Membership Meeting of the Huntington West Homeowners Association has now been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 20 - 7 PM at Station 18. Seating is limited in the Station 18 Community Room, so our Board plans to livestream the meeting again this year on Facebook page. Our HOA’s attorney has received an initial offer from Gwinnett County for the property they will need to acquire for widening Hwy 124 at our entrance. Our Board will be conferring with our attorney on negotiating the best outcome for our HOA and will share details at the meeting. Stay tuned to Facebook and hwhoa.org for details on how to stream the meeting. 
 
Our friends at Fire Station 18 will be conducting a smoke detector blitz in Huntington West on Saturday, September 10. Starting at 9 am, firefighters and other team members from Community Risk and Reduction will be going door to door to check the safety of smoke detectors. If any are found to be out of date or not to be in working order, the team will either replace them or recommend replacement options. A similar blitz was conducted on Gables Place last year, so there will hopefully be ample time to reach the rest of the neighborhood on Saturday. 
 
The last day to swim will be Sunday, September 25 and then our pool will be closed for the season. 
 
Our covenants inspector reports an increase in the number of violations for leaving grass clippings in the street after mowing. Perhaps some mowing fatigue has set in at the end of summer and now some early leaves have begun to fall as well. A reminder: homeowners are expected to keep lawns edged cleanly at the street and to clean up grass clippings, leaves and other debris from the street after each mowing. Grass clippings left in the street result in unsightly clumps of grasses or weeds that should be removed from the cracks between the pavement and the curb.  More importantly, grass clippings and leaves are a danger to our water system if left in the street to flow into the storm drains. 
 
The Board has received some safety concerns about basketball goals placed in the street. Per Gwinnett County Code, basketball goals are prohibited from being positioned in any County right-of-way. If your family owns a basketball goal, it must be in your own driveway or on your own lawn adjacent to your driveway - it may not be placed in the street, not even on a cul de sac. 
 
Speaking of safety: our Board continues to hear reports of drivers not following traffic laws at our neighborhood’s STOP signs. Please remember to come to a complete stop at all posted STOP signs to protect our children, walkers and of course other drivers. 
 
Our HOA would like to thank AKA Tree Service for “doing a solid” for our homeowners in Phase Four. Trees on the common area at the intersection of Green Gables and Gray Gables had grown to a point that tree limbs were obscuring the STOP sign at the end of Gray Gables Way. AKA Tree Service crews on Gray Gables for a job for an individual homeowner offered to cut back the tree limbs at no cost to the HOA. Thanks to AKA Tree Service for providing this community service for our homeowners so the STOP sign is clearly visible now. Thanks also to our neighbor Bill Daniels for following up after AKA to manicure the remaining tree limbs very nicely!