Plantation Pines HomeOwners Association Website

Have a Peaceful, Happy and Prosperous 2002!

We'd like to wish all of our residents, families and friends a wonderful New Year in 2002. Don't forget to check out the PPHO.org website. It is updated every other month, as well as whenever there is pertinent info. We now have over 26 residents on the PPHO email list. Please don't forget to add yours to the list, if you have not done so. Call 561-0325 if you would like for it to be added right away or send your email address, name and lot # to webmaster@ppho.org. Don't worry if you don't have email...you won't be left out of any formal or required communications, which will continue to be delivered via US Mail. However, we are able to easily and handily communicate with almost half our residents via email and this opens the door to much timelier, more frequent and less costly communications for our community.

Re-Zoning of portion of Crystal Drive & Plantation Road
January 10, 2001 9 AM - Meeting
Lee County Development Review (479-8900)
1500 Monroe St.
Room #218 (Hearing Examiner)
One block east of 41/McGregor interchange. Plenty of parking.

Please try to attend this meeting in order to ensure that the area of Plantation & Crystal (directly across the street from The Rookery) is re-zoned with stipulations that will help us to retain our property values and quality of living. Kathy Morgan, a PP resident has been a great help in dealing with the county on this issue and has been involved in voicing objections over certain types of businesses, landscapes, easements, fencing and other matters of concern with some success. Please see the separate attachment on this issue. As many of us as possible need to be seen and heard at this meeting to protect ALL of our property values.

Record Attendance!
We had a record attendance - 37 lots were represented! (Last year there were 26 - year before less than 20) So, we're really thrilled about the boost in attendance!

New Board Members
As most of you know, Tim Malszycki, who has served on our board for 3 years now, will no longer be on the board as of the end of 2001. Therefore, we really needed at least 1 additional board member to volunteer. Well, not only did we get 1 -- we got 2! For the first time in many years there will be 4 board members! The newly nominated and approved board members are Mike Tisch and Desi Fidler. Mike Tisch has just recently moved into the neighborhood and Desi Fidler is a long time resident of 14 years. Thank you to Mike and Desi for volunteering to serve on our board!

Front Entrance Beautification
Hopefully, by now you will have noticed that our front landscape has been repaired and is looking much better! (Aside from the cable laying equipment). Plants that had been killed by the previous drought were replaced with the same and additional plantings were used to fill in blank spots to give better uniformity to the existing landscape design. Kevin Kichinka spearheaded the team of resident volunteers who "touched up" the front entrance landscape, along with the help of Rod Bledsoe and Kathy Morgan. Also, Tim Malszycki met with the irrigation company and had those repairs performed. By doing this work ourselves, the homeowners association saved well over $1,000 or more. A BIG THANK YOU to Kevin, Kathy and Rod!

Kudos to Residents
We'd also like to thank Martha Kebhart for decorating our front entrance for the holidays so beautifully, as she does every year and Lorraine Beckmann for placing the US flags at the entrance to help our community show its support for the USA against the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

A parting word of thanks to Tim Malszycki - for his work and dedication to our community and to his position as president of the PPHOA! Tim you're awesome!

Please don't ever hesitate to contact us with any of your suggestions, comments and questions. Your feedback is welcomed and encouraged. Just click on the suggestion box and tell us your thoughts! We'd love to hear from you. Let's build our community together! webmaster@ppho.org