May 30, 2025 Email to Owners

To All Owners;

DC- 10 UPDATE

On May 28th, Country Lane Estates made its presentation to the Foothills County Council for the changes to their governing document associated with the Country Lane Development area - we refer to it by its name - DC-10.  Township Planning (our hired consultant) made the presentation on our behalf as agent, and I fielded questions addressed to the applicant.

After 18 months of effort, including engagement with the County administration , Township Planning and two owner communication and feedback sessions with many board meeting discussions, the work was accepted by the County as thorough and sufficient to render a decision.  The County Council approved, by a majority vote, to accept our proposal and passed the first reading of the bylaw change. 

We are now tasked to write a Master Development Plan Agreement for the revisions to be brought to the County Administration. The council also made it abundantly clear and expects to see in the Master Plan Agreement; the methods CLE board of Directors and administration will use to ensure that owners will not use CLE as their permanent residence. In the past, we have used the two consecutive winters rule, but I felt that the councilors and Development Planning department wanted something a little more structured. The board will explore the way forward (ensure our CLE bylaws, the new DC-10 and the new Master Plan all align and do not have contradictions) with Township Planning and the administration at Foothills County.

While this is underway the CLE board will govern the new DC-10 expectations. 

Thank you to all owners that participated in this effort no matter which side of the discussion you were on - I am grateful for the opportunity to see democracy in action and appreciate the results.

TELUS TOWER – Info

At our recent AGM we mentioned that the board was working on a small cell tower installation with Telus.  This tower will be located in the central area of the common property and will provide both stronger cell phone and data capability to the owners that utilize the Telus services. This tower is being installed at no cost to Country Lane Estates and Telus will pay CLE for the use of our power and footprint for the tower.  This is a similar arrangement as to the fee we charge for the current towers Telus has on our clubhouse.

During the effort to engineer the installation it became apparent, after an attempt, that digging or boring the cable from the clubhouse to the tower via the common property behind the affected units was not possible, to facilitate the installation of the cable it was determined that placing it under the road surface was the best option.  To that end Telus will be marking the road running in front of lots 118 - 130 to locate lines and prepare for the construction effort. 

We realize this will be a disturbance for the owners as there will be a period of time when the crews will be working in front of their homes and then another period of time where the asphalt will be under repair and the access to their property will be restricted. When the installation contractor makes us aware of the schedule, we will communicate with the owners to ensure they can manage their activities around this disruption.

We would like to thank the owner that reached out to Telus and raised this poor service issue and got the effort moving forward last year. We look forward to a timely completion of this no cost solution to the poor cell phone service in the park.

Chuck McClain

Chairman 

CLUBHOUSE DECK RESEALING

Please be aware the clubhouse decks be having some prep and sealing done on them over the next few days, please be aware and adhere to the redirection of entry into the Clubhouse when they are working on certain areas.  They will be doing the deck in stages, the back northwest corner has been started, and they will move around to the front in stages. 

PLEASE STAY OFF THE DECK AREAS THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON

Washing Machine Sanitization

Please note ALL the Washing Machines will be unavailable on Monday, June2, 2025 from 7:30 am till 9:30 am

Leviton Update

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