Why do we need strong new leadership?
Stop the bad decisions
PVHA’s mission is to be an effective steward by:
Defending the CC&Rs and underlying Deed restrictions, including maintaining parkland forever for public recreational use as stated in the Deeds
Providing a streamlined, transparent and fair process for architectural and landscape approvals, including resolution of view disputes over vegetation on privately owned land
Exercising fiscal prudence and responsibility
The sad part is that the Board in recent years has failed on all three of these dimensions through a series of bad decisions:
CC&Rs:
Actively violated the Deed Restrictions by selling 1.7 acres of parkland to a private resident who had built extensive encroachments on parkland for over forty years, and then wasting over $900,000 defending that bad decision in court
Failed to be proactive and intercede when those restrictions were being ignored – such as the new ADU ordinance and building a $450,000 Turnaround at the end of Lower Paseo Del Sol on deed restricted parklands
Wrote an advocacy letter to support closure of a section of the Paseo Del Sol Fire Road through parkland and thereby eliminating public use and access of about six acres of parkland
Process: Continued an opaque, frustrating and at times unfair process of approving architecture and mediating tree/view disputes
Fiscal: Wasted over $900,000 on legal pursuing an ill-conceived sale of parkland that was ultimately reversed in a decision by the California Superior Court
We need new leadership – people who embrace the core mission and who are responsive to the needs and interests of PVHA’s members. Marlene Breene and Dick Fay have begun the reform process, but they need more reform-minded Board Members to join them.