Welcome to Painted Hills

Hello Painted Hills Residents,

The Board of Directors has approved a small lighting project to improve visibility and safety around several of the community’s cluster mailboxes.

What’s Being Installed & Where
Tru Blu Electric has been contracted to install seven (7) new solar light poles next to selected cluster mailboxes throughout the community. These lights will be installed in the Public Utility Easement (PUE) where the mailboxes are already located. To clarify, this strip of land is not part of any private homeowner’s property. Please see the attachment for details of the seven (7) locations.

Why Only 7 Locations Right Now?
The Board would ultimately like to add solar lighting at all mailbox locations. However, under the Davis-Stirling Act (California Civil Code §5605(b)), the Board may not spend more than 5% of the Association’s budgeted gross expenses on new capital improvements in a given year without a vote of the membership.

To stay within that limit, the Board approved installation at seven (7) of the darker mailbox locations as a first phase. If this initial phase is well received by the community, the Board plans to initiate a membership ballot so owners can vote on proceeding with the remaining mailbox locations as a member-approved capital improvement.

Project Timing & What to Expect
Contractor: Tru Blu Electric
Current work: Digging small holes and setting concrete forms for the light poles at the selected locations
Next steps: Installation of the poles and solar light fixtures over the next couple of weeks, weather permitting

There may be brief localized activity around the mailboxes while work is underway, but access to mailboxes will be maintained as much as possible.

If you have any questions about this project, please contact your Community Manager, Valerie Raboin, at vraboin@actionlife.com. Thank you for your cooperation as the Board works to improve safety and visibility in your community!

With all of the demands on your time, it is sometimes hard to focus on courtesies regarding pet ownership.  Unfortunately, it also creates more stress for your neighbors when they have to deal with nuisances such as barking dogs, loose dogs and cats and feces being left on their property or in the common area.  These are clearly the responsibility of the pet owner and abiding by the pet rules in the community will not only promote a better relationship amongst neighbors, but will protect the health and safety of the animals as well.  Remember to always have your pet on a leash and pick up any waste left behind.  Also, please do not allow your dogs to travel onto an owners lot to defecate or urinate on plants.  Pet waste damages plants and discolors the mulch. Plant replacements can be costly to the Association and costly to the homeowner.

Please be a good neighbor – You can make a difference! 

Prohibited Vehicles

The following vehicles are “prohibited vehicles”:  (a) recreational vehicles (motor homes, travel trailers, camper vans, boats, etc.); (b) commercial-type vehicles (stake bed trucks, tank trucks, dump trucks, step vans, concrete trucks and limousines; (c) buses or vans designed to accommodate more than ten (10) people; (d) vehicles having more than two (2) axles; (e) trailers; (f) inoperable vehicles or parts of vehicles; (g) aircraft; (h) any vehicle or vehicular equipment deemed a nuisance by the Board including pocket bikes, mini bikes, scooters, dirt bikes and any other vehicle that does not comply with the California Department of Motor Vehicle code as authorized for use on public roads, i.e. licensed (these vehicles will be impounded if found in violation); and (i) any other vehicle not classified as an authorized vehicle. 

Prohibited vehicles may not be parked, stored, or kept on any public or private street within the community or any other common area parking area except for 72 hours for loading, unloading, making deliveries or emergency repairs.  Prohibited vehicles (i.e. trailers, motorcycles, jet skis, pop-up camper trailers, boats, etc.) may only be parked in an Owner’s fully enclosed garage with the door closed.

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Whether you are an owner or leasing a home at Painted Hills, please email the manager at batkinson@actionlife.com to make sure your email is in our system.