The Lakeway Bee

A friend forwarded details of this great site to me.How come residents of other areas are being informed of this site by their HOA's and the residents of the Uplands aren't?
Who made the decision to keep this from us?
Don't they think we should have the opportunity to get coupons and find out what's going on in our area?

Obviously our HOA is deciding for us what we need/want to see.

Nearly 10,000 visits tells you this is viewed as an important part of the Bee Cave community! Other HOA's had posted details of this site long before the Uplands-that's how I heard about it.
Judging by the numerous postings you have on this site you are using it a great deal too.
I am grateful that someone is out there getting coupons and helping local businesses promote themselves. Hopefully that will mean more tax dollars for our city.

So when are the rest of our neighborhood going to hear about this great site? There are great savings with the coupons and we could all do with a little help right now!

Finally, everyone in the Uplands gets to hear about this site!

Whenever you read anything about Landscaping and it says we (meaning the HOA board) please note that nobody on the board has actually done ANY of the work. You need to thank Randi Mackey who has done ALL of the work involved with landscaping in our neighborhood. Might be nice if they didn't take the credit and at least mentioned that she did the work.

Great job Randi! Thanks for all your hard work.

If I recall correctly the traffic count the HOA took after the gate was closed experimentally showed over 500 cars a week were cutting through via the 71 gate. Then it was closed permanently. And doesn't everyone who lives here have remotes?

As a resident how can you possibly be inconvenienced as you can enter any of the gates using a remote or homelink (as you do for your garage)?
Perhaps you have not been around enough to have seen the constant flow of non-residents using that gate and Uplands Ridge as a short cut (they drove in at 71 and straight out at Tennison). Do you honestly think those people would then give a damn about driving at the speed limit?
Did you ever bother to look at the figures sent out by the board showing the much lower # of non-residents gaining access to our neighborhood once that gate was closed to them?

Come on - 30 seconds longer in the rental car or taxi to get to Tennison against 500 strangers cutting through our roads a week?

I hope the Board listens to reason

Really-if you are so inconvenienced and frustrated there is a simple solution. Buy a remote for when your car goes into the shop (the HOA used to sell them as a convenience to neighbors). That way you can continue to enter at ANY gate.
I don't want to see Uplands Ridge becoming a racetrack as non-residents enter at 71 to race through our neighborhood to Resaca in an effort to avoid 3 lights.

So you consider a moments inconvenience to you much more important than the safety of our children who ride their bikes and scooters or stand waiting for the school bus along Uplands Ridge.My understanding is that the closing of the gate at 71 was raised as a safety issue by residents who lived near there and by the safety committee. The HOA then did the count to see if this was a real problem. That way they could base their decision on fact.
I hope the board is mature enough to rate our children's safety above inconvenience.

A few complain, the board decides. How is that putting it to a vote? I am more than happy to go with the wishes of the MAJORITY of neighbors. Yet you make the assumption that I am afraid to do so with no evidence of any sort from my posting!!
What makes you so sure that EVERYONE wants the same thing? That would be a highly unusual event! Unless you count yourself so important that you are everyone? Of course, you may want to look to your source of information on this.

Shauna, please read posts more carefully. No concern in any of the posts for a MAJORITY vote.

The only time the 71 gate was 'open' was during the day, when most of the houses were being built. It was closed at night
The key pad can't be used by non-residents but every gate is still 'open' to all residents.

BTW all HOA board members, past and present are volunteers. You may want to reread what you wrote about volunteers on your posting about city council members and then act accordingly!

Actually, your exact words were that "I have lived in the neighborhood with the gate OPEN much longer than I lived in it with the gate closed". Just replying to that.

I am very concerned at the prospect of 71 being opened again and I will tell you why. Just last week I followed two cars racing side by side down Uplands Ridge. Blowing through a stop sign and having to jockey for position to get around a landscapers truck. These were two kids that live in this neighborhood. Do you think that non residents on our streets are going to drive better, slower and be concerned at all for the safety of our kids? I don't think so. And in case you are wondering how I know they were residents racing I was going the same way and followed them home. They live on Uplands Ridge. If 71 is opened I would not allow my children to ride their bikes on Uplands Ridge to go see their friends. I live on a cul-de-sac and you should see how fast the residents, landscapers, and other service people drive even knowing there is no out on the other end. I think that your inconvenience of a few minutes is not worth the safety of my kids and yours.

Thank heavens the gate at 71 had been fixed yesterday and not tied open as it had been all weekend! I was waiting to turn into the neighborhood from the HEB parking lot when a red truck raced off 71 and headed towards our gates. Seeing them closed, the driver then pulled a screeching u-turn and headed back to 71, just as a state trooper followed in his wake. Imagine the fun(?) we would have had down Uplands Ridge had he raced into our neighborhood!

You consider putting our children's lives at risk by enabling a shortcut from 71 through to Tennison or Resaca-in your words-"sooo funny". Sorry I don't see the joke.