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CC&R documents for all 11 Foxenwood Estates tracts are now available!

Foxenwood Estates was built in 11 phases. As each tract was built, a new Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&R) document was created. Therefore, each tract has a different CC&R document. The first CC&R document was rather simple, but with each phase the documents tended to become more complex.

The result is that your neighbor may have an entirely different CC&R document. Confusing to say the least.

Another wrinkle in the CC&R saga is that Foxenwood Estates developer Mark Smith, has retained legal control of all the CC&Rs and has declined to release control, citing concerns over possible litigation against him. As a result, it is impossible for Foxenwood homeowners to adopt a single CC&R document covering the entire development.

Even if Mr. Smith did turn loose of the CC&Rs, it is unlikely that the homeowners in all 11 tracts would agree on a new CC&R document, which they would have to do before a unified set of CC&R rules could be approved.

In the meantime, many—if not most—Foxenwood homeowners say they never received a copy of their CC&Rs when they purchased their homes, and most of the rest have not read their CC&Rs and do not know where their copy is.

To address this problem, former FEHA Board members painstakingly scoured the neighborhood until they were able to obtain copies of all 11 documents. As a result of their efforts, you can now read and download your own copy.

To view and/or download a PDF scan of the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions for your tract, CLICK HERE.

 

Click this map icon to open the CC and R clickable map page. Click the map to open the CC&R page.

 

SB County paddywagon brought back to life!

Read about the 1927 jail-on-wheels discovered in Goleta and restored!

Many years ago, while refueling his patrol car at the county garage, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Tejeda spotted what he considered to be a diamond in the rough.   He saw an ancient looking truck dragged up beside some other county vehicles awaiting service. 

The dilapidated truck sat on wooden spoke wheels, the rubber tires having long since turned to rotted cord sleeves.  What was left of the wooden framework used to support and strengthen the rusted steel body panels wasn’t even worth saving as firewood. . .

So begins the amazing tale, as told by Tim Gracey, Senior Deputy Sheriff, SB Sheriff’s Department

READ MORE HERE!

Old paddywagon headlights. click here.

As seen in Foxen News.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEHA Goofballs

by James Pepper

Criticism is seldom welcome and often resented. None of us who consider our egos to be within the boundaries of healthy self-esteem enjoy being told our efforts, or appearance, or beliefs or our way of conducting ourselves in public is deficient, substandard or improper.
Much less do we appreciate being told our personal traits are sufficiently outside social norms as to be subject to the derogatory label of “odd.”

Oh, we might take a kind of perverse pride in being odd in some mildly rebellious way, such as wearing red racing shoes in our little sports car, but when it comes to matters close to our heart, especially those matters over which we have expended careful thought—and most especially those issues upon which we have made a public pronouncement—we most definitely do not want to be thought of as odd. And we do not want it said to our friends and neighbors that we are to be shunned because of what we have stated as our public position.

We are, in a word, goofballs.

We want to be taken seriously, of course. We have weighed the pros and cons of the matter carefully and fully and now we wish to add our insight to the mix of public discourse. We wish to have our two cents deposited in the community bank of knowledge, and we wouldn’t mind accruing a bit of interest, either.

But, horror of horrors, not only are our finest gems of geometric logic disparaged and rejected, but we ourselves are held up to ridicule as a gleaming example of the social misfit, and worse. We are not simply misguided or uninformed, we are mentally incapable of adult reasoning— or even juvenile reasoning. Our contributions to the communal consciousness are to be totally and irrevocably discarded because we are too far outside the boundaries of normalcy to have a claim on reality.

We are odd. We are strange. We are, in a word, “Goofballs.”

Here is a posting from the Santa Maria Times’ website, dated January 1 of this year:

“FYI- about traffic on Blosser during rush hour. Clark is crowded at rush hour with all the stop lights so some drivers exit at SM Way and take Lakeview and Foster to reach the 135. The left turn lane at Foster on to 135 is crowded and busy so sometimes the traffic just goes straight through over to Blosser and California then onto the 1. Or at least so say the people that live on Blosser and even the goofballs on the Foxenwood Homeowners Association. They claim that there is already too much traffic going down California and Blosser and they don’t want to see UVP built at all.

“What a coincidence that most of the board members of the Foxenwood Homeowners live on California (that might see new traffic) or Foxenwood Dr or Clubhouse and these people will see UVP go right behind their houses. Just like they were informed when they signed their names 45 or so times on their closing documents. Now they want [sic] act outraged and try to stop the road! They claim that there will be all sorts of new traffic once UVP is connected to the 101.”

The Foxhole suspects that it is lumped in with the “goofballs on the Foxenwood Homeowners Association,” even though it is not on the FEHA Board. Such technicalities are hardly to be supposed of importance to the writer of the above posting.

Our immediate impulse is to compose a three-page response to the attack, pointing out the various errors in fact, the misrepresentations, mischaracterizations and faulty logic. We could dredge up 40 years of Union Valley Parkway history—a construction project worthy of an EIR in itself— and bring to tears any reasonable person willing to look at the shameful record of official dishonesty, calumny and obfuscation.

We could . . . but what’s the use? Everything we might say—our entire towering edifice of crystal-clear insight and steely logic—collapses into a gelatinous blob of revolting goo because we are, and always will be, hopeless goofballs.

 

Jan/Feb 2010 Foxen News available for download:
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Jan/Feb 2010 issue!<

 

 

 

 

 

Foxenwood.com friend D'Ann Bartley is not only a licensed Realtor®, but is a prestigious Certified Residential Specialist, as well. She was the first to add a link to Foxenwood.com and we are very pleased to return the favor. To visit her Prudential website, Click here. Ms. Bartley is also a new advertiser in the Foxen News newsletter, so you can see she is involved in our community.

 

 

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SB County Paddywagon brought back to life!
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We are all FEHA Goofballs!

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