The Estes Park Police Department put together this list of phone numbers to call for various types of code violations.  As a first step please contact your neighbor and discuss the situation before reporting a code violation. 

 Code Compliance Flyer 2019

The 2019 annual meeting will be at the Estes Valley Community Center, 660 Community Drive, on July 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm. Come join us for an interesting and timely presentation on the Carriage Hills electric line upgrade and broadband rollout projects.

Slash pickup begins the week of July 15th for paid members of CHPOA, and it’s not to late to join.

A community meeting was held on the Carriage Hills Capital Electric Lines Rebuild Project on January 10, 2019 in the Town Board Room. Crews will begin the project in February by replacing the 3-phase lines running between Larkspur and Spruce Avenues southward towards Ponderosa Avenue and then towards Fish Creek Road.  The Light & Power department gave a 20 minute presentation and took questions from the audience. The following questions and answers are from this meeting.

• Will any lines be buried during this project? No, all lines that are currently overhead are planned to remain overhead.
• Can a group of residents have secondary lines buried that run behind their properties? On request, L&P will underground the single-phase secondary lines for a group of residents. The customers requesting the undergrounding would be responsible for paying for it. 
• Will there be any additional tree trimming? There may be some spot trimming or removals once the crews get out there and start working. However, the major tree work for this project was done over the fall. L&P has a Customer Tree Replacement Program. Contact Sarah Clark at 970-577-3627 for more information. 
• Can we have the service lines to our home buried during this project? This work would be done by L&P at the homeowner’s expense. This may require the installation of a new service panel, which would require an electrician. It would be best to coordination your project with L&P’s other work in your area. 
• Can we keep the poles removed during the project? Most definitely. Anyone wanting to keep the poles should talk to the crew while they are there doing the work. It was noted that poles that have telecommunications on them will remain in place after L&P has set a new pole until the telecom company transfers their equipment and lines. 
• There will be no outages longer than 4 hours. L&P will give plenty of notice (about a week) before moving into each area. Check their website for the latest project status. This project will continue throughout 2019 and many of the planned outages will take place during the summer.
  
• All transformers will be replaced and 16 trip-savers will be installed to replace existing fuses in the lines. This will reduce outages and speed repair efforts. 
• Why is this being done now? L&P selects capital improvement areas based on outage frequency and severity. This project was originally on their schedule for 2020 and was moved up a year to better correspond with the planned expansion of their smart grid system. If the Town Board decided to implement a municipal broadband utility, this system would be able to accommodate that as well.

For further information contact Sarah Clark, L&P Administrative Assistant, at 970-557-3627 or sclark@estes.org. The meeting was recorded and can be viewed at www.estes.org/videos. More information and project status updates can be found at www.estes.org/electriccapitalimprovements.

The dues of the Carriage Hills Property Owners Association are voluntary. As such, we never issue liens or place any other encumbrances on a property. We do not prepare status letters, which are sometimes requested by title insurance companies. This web site should answer all your questions. If not, please send specific questions to carriagehillspoa@gmail.com. 

Bob Leavitt gave a presentation on the History of Carriage Hills at the Carriage Hills POA annual meeting on July 19, 2018. Here is a link to the presentation. The file is 18 MB so it may take a while to download. History of Carriage Hills.

Carriage Hills will be having neighborhood-wide garage sales in June 16, starting at 8:00 am. For locations see this map: www.carriagehillspoa.org/carriage-hills-garage-sales-june-16-2018

Participants Include:

2730 Wildwood Drive
2020 Mondale Court
727 Ponderosa Ln.
731 Sanborn Drive
630 Whispering
2449 Carriage Drive
2440 Spruce Avenue
635 Whispering Pines Drive
2461 Larkspur Ave.
211 Larkspur Ave.
337 Whispering Pines Drive
940 Ramshorn Drive

After reviewing estimates provided by three contractors on three residential culvert cleaning jobs, we have chosen Mike Griffith of Griffith Construction. All 3 contractors were knowledgeable and capable of doing a good job, but Mike’s estimated costs were lower than the other two. I have several people who were interested in having this work done and I will pass their names along to Mike. If you would be interested in having your culvert cleaned, or know of someone who might be interested let me know. Mike Griffith will visit your property and provide you with an estimate. Each resident will be contracting with Mike to have the work done. Let me know if you have any questions. You can also contact Mike Griffith at 970-449-2452 or griffithconstruction1@gmail.com.

Mark your calendar! The CHPOA Annual meeting will take place July 20, 2017 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. It will be held at the Presbyterian Community Church, 1700 Brodie Avenue. The agenda will be included in the next newsletter. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

The annual slash pickup will start July 17th. It usually lasts about a week. You MUST be a current paid member of CHPOA to have your slash picked up. Please cut tree branches to a length of 4 – 5 feet. Place your pile with butt end forward near the road at the front of your property. Please note that pine needles/cones, grass, and other yard waste are not included in the free slash pickup. Adams Tree Service is handling the slash pickup for CHPOA.  

The annual community-wide Spring Cleanup Day is Saturday, April 29th from 9 – 11 am. Each year a group of Carriage Hills residents walks the open space area around Scott Ponds to pick up trash. This year I’m planning to join their project and I’m wondering if anyone would like to volunteer along with me. If we have several new volunteers we could include parts of Carriage Drive and Fish Creek Road as well as the area around the ponds. At this point I’m only looking for those who are tentatively interested. It’s still 2 weeks away and I know plans can change at this busy time of year. Please send a message to carriagehillspoa@gmail.com. I will send out details when we get closer to the date. Thanks in advance for your interest in this project! Information about Spring Cleanup Day can be found here.