Our Mission

Our purpose is to enhance, improve, and beautify the Houndslake neighborhood.  Our desire is to promote the general well-being of the real property owners of the Houndslake area.

Vision

• Working with city to secure new golf crossing signs

• Working with city & club to save ponds on golf course.

• Maintain landscaping at entrance signs

• Worked with city on Essex Circle cul-de-sac

• Working with city to re-surface Houndslake Drive

• Working with city to help with overgrown easement on Varden under power lines

• Painting Houndslake North sign on Trial Ridge

• Working to achieve a better and balanced lighting for the entrances to our neighborhood

• Addressing the erosion of the embankment, efficiency of the drainage design, and the esthetics of the embankment as it faces the greenspace.

•  Working with the city to esthetically engineer these three open culverts in the “green space”.

• Sign on parkway and Varden (small Houndslake North sign)

• Sign on Woodbine & Varden (Houndslake North sign)

• Sign on Riviera & Varden (Houndslake sign)

• Sign on By-pass at Trail Ridge - ((Houndslake North sign) small attachment to Surrey Woods sign)

• Sign(s) at By-pass/Trail Ridge and Troon (Houndslake sign)

• Sign near club beside speed bump $1K or more

• Beautification of Varden

• Landscape greenspace

• Clear area across from greenspace - country club/golf vignette

• Pave maintenance shed driveway and close muddy trench in use along "new rip rap culvert" recently laid by the city

Accomplishments

• Lobbied city to pave Houndslake Drive

• Built new entrance signs 

• Lighted new entrance signs

• Landscaped new entrance signs

• Planted grass on Parkway

• Cut and maintain grass on Parkway each month

• Completely landscaped Tennis courts 

• Planted new plants at speed bumps

• Painted speed bumps

• Painted yellow curb

• Cutting grass on Varden Drive under power lines

• Re-claiming  small pond on Laurel #9 

• Working with DOT to fix Laurel tunnel and erosion on Parkway 

• Had city add no dumping signs   

• Repaired holes in club parking lot

• Edged from sign to sign

• Removed unused phone line that crossed Houndslake Dr near 9th tee box

• Handed out welcome baskets to new neighbors

• Work with city to enforce city ordinances 

• Started adopt a hole

• Paid city to put up cart crossing signs    

• Cleared the “green space” near the bypass

• Worked with city to repair drainage on Dogwood #1 & Dogwood #7

• Repaired Varden Drive rail fence

• Painted Houndslake sign on Northwood Drive

• Updated sign on Parkway to match sign on Pinelog

•  Had State DOT clean up overgrowth on bypass near Northwood Drive

• Created Nextdoor website

• Removed "abandoned" power poles in the neighborhood

• Cleared the underbrush, cut and pulled the vines in the “green space.”

• Marketing to brand our neighborhood

• Build and maintain website

• Brochure for Chamber of Commerce

• Active members ACoN neighborhood council