The Gull's Call - Jan/Feb/Mar 2026

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Harbor Pointe by Randi Carlson Hinkle A S THE YEAR 2025 COMES TO A CLOSE AND WE all look forward to the new year, your board is happy to report that the regulated sewer lateral work we did this year has been approved and all of our sewer laterals are now certified for twenty years by EBMUD. We had hoped to complete the repaving of Harbor Road this year once EBMUD had certified our sewer laterals and we no longer would need to tear up the asphalt, but the rains have caused us to postpone the resurfacing until Spring of 2026. We hope to accomplish this project as early as possible in 2026 as we have scheduled trim paint ing in 2026, and we want the road work done before we paint. Thank you to our Board Treasurer, John Wells, Hen rik Bruhns (our unofficial maintenance committee Chair), and our Manager, Samantha Soogian, for accomplishing major maintenance work this year and for their work on the projects now scheduled for 2026. We also would like to thank our former resident and Board President, Carl Fritzsche, for his considerable contribution over previous years regarding our HOA’s compliance with the mandated Regional Private Sewer Lateral Ordinance (PSL). You may or may not recall that our governor signed into law AB 1572 in 2023 which resulted in a new Water Code that specifically affects HOAs in California. This code restricts our watering of “nonfunctional turf”. Our one woman landscape committee, Beth Sibley, along with Samantha, have been working diligently to come up with a multi-phase plan to convert the lawn and sprinklers in our parking strips to drought-resistant plants and a drip ir rigation system. The Board has approved the first two con version plans which are for parking strips along Brunswick and Sheffield. We expect this work to be done soon. Your board would like to remind you to ensure your HO-6 homeowner’s insurance policy is current and covering your home’s interior including fixtures, improvements, and personal belongings as well as loss of use, personal liability, and loss assessment coverage which pays for a unit owner’s share of costs of common area repairs not covered by the Residential Community Association Policy for Harbor Pointe.

part of California’s broader efforts to manage water conservation by regulating the use of potable water for nonfunctional turf irrigation. It requires various property owners, including common interest development associations, to remove “nonfunctional turf” or irrigate it with reclaimed water. HOAs are required to stop using potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf or to remove such turf from common areas by the end of 2028. This restriction does not apply to single-family residential homes.

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