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Palumbo said she didn’t want to see others go through the same experiences she has. “We just would like to be able to walk down a well-lit path that doesn’t have broken glass, or have our children sit on benches that aren’t rusted out,” she said. “I’ve fallen three times because there’s always dirt and mud in the walkway and its usually flooded.” That’s why residents said they are ready to take more drastic measures than writing letters and making phone calls. “It sounds like depending on the response we get [from Trestle], we might be picketing,” Lever said. That plan would involve a large group of residents standing with signs along Rancho Mirage Boulevard both warning potential residents not to move there and calling out the management company and the developer, the residents said in interviews. “I am willing to sit at the entrance with a picket sign that says, ‘Do not buy here, corrupt HOA,’” Bushong said. “It has to get done because we love our community, but we don’t love what’s happening to us.”
community. “Tami warned and threatened that the annual HOA meeting might be canceled due to my actions, stating that the declarant board controls these meetings and is not obligated to hold them,” he wrote in a Nov. 3 letter to Eden and the management company inspected by InMaricopa . Eden did not respond to a request for comment, instead deferring requests to Vasquez. And while he didn’t answer questions about Eden, Vasquez said Trestle planned to host its first town hall in January and is attempting to correct some of AAM’s 19 years of mistakes. “We’re just working to move forward because there’s frankly not a whole lot we can do about the past,” he said. “We want to make sure they’re advocates for the community, and we can stop any adversarial feelings they’ve had over the years.” They might start picketing Yet several homeowners in Rancho Mirage said the only communication from the new neighborhood managers has been notices about
he wrote in an email to Community Manager Katie Payne that was reviewed by InMaricopa . Mangum scored a rare come-from-behind win against his HOA and said he hoped others would follow his lead and question authority at every juncture. “The notice was sent in reference to the political flag, which is not protected under A.R.S. § 33-1808 nor permitted by our community documents,” Payne said in response. “However, since you have clarified that it is a sign or banner rather than a flag, the matter is resolved.”
WHAT IS A POLITICAL SIGN, ANYWAY? Election season — the hottest one in American history ended days ago — reliably sees a wave of political signs peppering roadsides and yards across the city. But some HOAs have a problem with the First Amendment, it seems. At least according to Rancho El Dorado resident Kenneth Mangum, whose HOA apparently had a problem with his Trump signage hanging from a pergola in his yard. “I was aghast at the
insensitivity of the HOA in threatening the political rights of homeowners,” Mangum told InMaricopa .
“The HOA cited me for a flag violation. I
appealed, arguing that it was a political sign and therefore allowed by Maricopa ordinances
Broken glass sits in a new park under construction in the Rancho Mirage neighborhood
and by legislative- enacted statues.”
Mangum was able to bend the rules by declaring the flag was, in fact, a sign. “Do you realize that ‘flag’ is not defined anywhere in the CC&Rs? For that matter, neither is the word ‘sign’ defined anywhere,’”
Mirage with her husband in 2019, likened the relatively well-off community to the most derelict neighborhood in Phoenix. “How is it they’re building new, almost million-dollar homes and our subdivision looks like it’s in Maryvale? It’s horrible,” she said. “I’ve even started sending information and complaints to Meritage, the developer.”
when builders will break ground on new blocks of homes. “The fountains were down for a year, and we kept asking for them to be fixed,” Palumbo said. “I think they only got fixed because a new builder came in and said, ‘Oh, we need it to look good so we can sell houses.’” Aaliyah Bushong, who moved to Rancho
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