A discussion has gotten heated regarding the purchase and development of a golf course. The commission will be delaying the vote until March.
Bedbugs have become the center of a discussion on who is responsible for eradicating infestation in condominiums. The condominium bylaws can help determine who should be responsible, however, residents, owners and building managers need to work together to ensure that bedbugs don't spread past the point of easy extermination.
A condominium association is asking for reimbursement for benefits that they claim are offered to other communities and not theirs. These benefits include garbage being collected, roads being paved and lit streets at night. The borough has made an offer for reimbursement and is awaiting their acceptance.
A battle is brewing over new restrictions being placed on owners with pit bulls. Owners who currently have pit bulls are being grandfathered in with restrictions, however, others are not allowed to adopt new dogs after the effective date.
A homeowners association is demanding that a military family remove a banner welcoming their son, and father, from deployment. The son/father has been gone for four years and the family wants to welcome him home with the sign which falls into the sign requirements set by the association.
Residents are angry with their association board of directors because they made the decision to close a bridge they commonly use.
The members of a homeowner's association will be deciding whether or not to acquire a local golf course that is no longer being maintained by its owner.
A battle has started between the residents and homeowners association of a Glenmary subdivision. The board signed a contract to purchase the local golf course but within a month, new board members cancelled the purchase, causing litigation between the sellers of the golf course and the association for breach of contract. The residents looked at the purchase as a way to ensure the preservation of the open land.
Condominiums, many of which were being rented for ski season, were burned to the ground and lack of modern fire protection is to blame. The condos were built in the 1970s and are exempt from today's building codes such as fire walls and sprinkler systems.
The son-in-law of a resident in a condominium is fighting for answers after a fire displaced a number of residents. He claims smoke detectors and emergency lights failed to operate during the fire and fire extinguishers had not been inspected in over a year. He claims residents were not evacuated until fire fighters were already fighting the fire and that the smoke detectors never did sound.
