A homeowner (whose children's butterfly garden faces destruction) provides an update to a previous post that was removed from Cypress Head NextDoor:
On March 5 and March 8, 2021, the homeowner spent several hours meeting with the property manager to discuss ways that she thought were essential to saving the butterfly garden. The homeowner offered to remove some trees and plants. (As any butterfly gardener knows, the movement of such plants and trees may sound the death knell for the foliage and/ or the butterflies.) She also offered to install rows and rings of flowers that were installed on many other properties in the community. (It was unknown whether or not each of these residents were required to submit site plans and applications for the installation of their rows and rings of flower beds.) The homeowner submitted another site plan and application in a good faith attempt, once again, to remedy the issue.
The homeowner attended another ARB meeting on March 9, 2021. She repeatedly tried to remedy this issue with B.C., the long-time president of the HOA, and the ARB for the last six months.
The homeowner soon felt that it was another fool's exercise since the president (B.C.) presided over and influenced yet another predetermined outcome. There was, however, one new, token female resident present who seemed terrified to speak among all of the male ARB and double-dipping Board members.
Not one ARB member offered any valuable feedback on the submission. Then again, there was not one single ARB member and/ or double-dipping Board member present that was qualified to assess a butterfly garden. Not one ARB member was currently licensed and/ or degreed in horticulture, civil engineering, and/ or architecture. Not one ARB member was a certified master gardner.
B.C., instead, seemed to consume the meeting by lambasting the homeowner. He told her that her NextDoor posts (all that were deleted by and/ or promoted for deletion by the Cypress Head NextDoor censors) could decrease home values in this community. (Does he not realize that he seems to have created this snafu?)
He then claimed that no one in the community was responsible for removing the posts in and out of NextDoor.
However, the record shows that such claims are false.
The property manager, L.B., chimed in about spinach and oregano growing in the homeowner's garden. (Thankfully, no one was hungry.) She claimed that iguanas liked these foods. (In South Florida, iguanas eat almost everything. Everything.) However, the homeowner assured her, there were never any iguanas observed feasting on spinach and oregano in her yard.
One male masked ARB member then stood up and rudely raised his voice at the homeowner. The homeowner asked him to identify himself. After a long tirade, he lifted his mask and identified himself as C.O. He then abruptly cut the homeowner out of the Zoom meeting as he did during the previous meeting. By behaving as if he was a bully, he failed to allow the homeowner the opportunity to respond to his allegations.
According to the targeted homeowner, this ARB meeting appeared to be another vulgar display of the flexing of some serious kangaroo muscle.
A kangaroo court continued to move at full speed ahead in this community.
Furthermore, B.C. seemed to intentionally delay the decision of the ARB by four days. The rejection letter was emailed later in the afternoon of Friday, March 12, 2021. This was done in an attempt to lead the homeowner to attend a CTEC hearing (that is very likely another extension of the kangaroo court that appears to be the Architectural Review Board- in the absence of neutrality and due process) in an unprepared state, and, very likely, in the absence of an attorney.
The letter stated that "the ARB required you to plant a 6-8 ft hedge..."
There is no known published rule that specifies any hedge of that height on the resident's type of property, unless it is for the installation of a tennis court, which this is not. The homeowner submitted two proposals for hedges that were, on the basis of subjectivity, rejected. Hence her attempt to work with the management company representative to install flower rows and rings to border flower beds as other residents have installed and maintained.
Furthermore, there is no moat or prison being constructed in the children's butterfly garden. Who would want to obstruct sunlight to the butterflies and the butterfly garden? Furthermore, there is a history of speeding drivers along the street where the butterfly garden exists. The HOA was aware that an underaged motorcyclist once skid off the road and into the garden. Why would any HOA and management company invite potential liability by requiring a homeowner to install a 6 to 8 ft hedge where it does not belong but where an angry leadership wants it installed?
Again, B.C., as long-time president of this community, directed the management company to issue violation notices and, in this case, appeared to target the homeowner with a barrage of violation notices in response to her NextDoor post on butterflies and another on a community survey.
The record shows that this president and leadership appear to relentlessly target other residents.
In the words of another Cypress Head resident, (NextDoor post, August 1, 2019). "... think it just shows the neighbors on this board have vandettas against other neighbors and are out to make people's lives miserable.”
Expect kangaroos and more chaos when attending an ARB meeting.
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