FREQUENT PRACTICES

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EXTERIOR MODIFICATION REQUEST – Any changes to the exterior of your villa or landscape require completing the Exterior Modification Request (this is a separate one-page document available on KPV’s website). This form must be completed and submitted for KPV Board approval before the starting date of the project (this form does not have to be completed for the staining of your villa every 6 years or for any interior renovations). Several typical outside projects are listed on this form and the completed form can be returned to Jim Johnson either as (1) a pdf attachment to an email, (2) mailed via US Postal Service or (3) put in my paper box (please – do not put it in my mailbox). Upon authorizing board signatures and approval date I will return a copy of the signed form to you. If you wish to discuss your project before completing this form feel free to contact me.

RE-STAINING – Must be completed every 6 years using specified stain (see p.5, #13, footnote 2); schedule and stain color set by Architectural Control Committee (ACC). After consulting with the ACC owners have the option of changing to another color among the eight options as long as the new color selected is not the same as their immediate neighbors. Please note that the wood trim, mailbox posts, yard lamp posts, wood or metal garage doors, and service doors must also be stained. Any warped, cracked or deteriorating cedar siding must also be replaced at this time. The only stain that may be used is Benjamin Moore Arborcoat Solid Deck and Siding Stain. The approved supplier is C. E. Lee 1725 N. Ironwood, South Bend, IN, 574-262-6888. Owners may use any contractor (although a list of available contractors can be requested from the ACC). A Staining Completion Form must be completed and returned when staining is finished. Details involving your villa staining are typically mailed (USPS) a year in advance, allowing you ample time to schedule a contractor, since their schedules for a given year fill up rapidly in the spring.

REPAIR/REPLACEMENT ROOFING SHINGLES – When repair or replacement is required, the approved roof shingles for ALL villas is GAF TIMBERLINE in the WEATHERED WOOD color. ACC must pre-approve all replaced roofs.

APPEARANCE OF FRONT ENTRANCE DOORS – Front entrance doors must be maintained in a medium shade of oak or walnut. All other doors (back/side/garage) must be stained with the same Benjamin Moore Arborcoat to match the villa.

MAINTENANCE OF MAILBOX AND YARD LAMP & POST – Must be maintained by villa owner – posts for the mailbox and yard lamp must be checked for deterioration. Check with a Board Member of the Association for costs and installation.

CARE OF TREES ON INDIVIDUAL VILLA LOTS – Each owner shall be responsible for maintaining at the owner's expense any trees located on the owner's Homesite having a trunk diameter of 12 inches (38 inches in circumference) or greater, and shall include but not be limited to pruning and removing any such trees which are dead or unsightly, any fallen limbs, or any unsightly, dead or dangerous portions of such trees. Trees having a trunk diameter smaller than 12 inches (38 inches in circumference) shall be maintained by the Association.

REPLACING WOODEN LANDSCAPE TIMBERS ON VILLA LOTS – The villa owner needs to replace deteriorating landscape timbers with new ones (typically 3”x4” treated timbers of varying length). Interlocking concrete blocks are a longer-term option (although more expensive). Either timbers or concrete blocks should be installed by a qualified contractor.

REPLACING VEHICLE GARAGE DOOR – Garage doors can be either metal or wood, and must be 4 flat panels with no windows and no raised panel design, and stained with the same Benjamin Moore Arborcoat to match the villa.

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INSTALLING JACUZZI – a two-to-three person jacuzzi can weigh approximately 3000 pounds when filled with water. It requires a poured concrete foundation and must be located behind the villa. It requires ACC approval before any site planning can be initiated.

REPLACING WINDOWS/PATIO DOORS (also see WINDOW TREATMENT on p. 35) – The overwhelming majority of windows in KPV are dark brown, with the few remaining villas a color that blends with the villa stain. The only approved replacement windows/patio doors are Anderson, Pella, and Kolbe. Villa windows are awning, casement or stationary/picture windows. Replacement windows may not be double hung windows8.

LANDSCAPE MULCH AREAS (also see p. 35) – Mulch is provided by the Association. The villa owner may replace (at owner’s expense) the mulch with river rock, of size 1 to 11/2 inch. Replacement of edging may be done using either traditional black, plastic edging or an alternative commonly called “concrete borders.” The area of landscape mulch areas may not be enlarged. Dead shrubs/bushes/flowers may be replaced with plants of similar size. Try to plant Indiana native plants – the Indiana Native Plant Society has photos at

https://indiananativeplants.org/landscaping/landscape-worthy-indiana-natives/

What not to plant is listed by the Society at

https://indiananativeplants.org/landscaping/what-not-to-plant/

DISPLAY OF POLITICAL SIGNS – Political signs are not allowed in KPV since (1) access to the property from the outside is controlled by gates, and (2) the common areas, including roads, are privately owned and maintained (Ind. Code § 32-21-13-7).

DISPOSAL OF TREE LIMBS – Small tree limbs that you can collect with a rake may be put in a bundle by your mailbox for pick up by our contracted landscaping service. The villa owner is responsible for removing larger tree limbs that have fallen on their property.

SERVICE FOR GARBAGE AND RECYCLING –Garbage and recycling containers should be kept in garage when not scheduled for pickup. They may be set out at the end of your drive the evening prior to the day of scheduled pickup and returned to your garage after being emptied.

REPLACEMENT OF DRIVEWAYS AND FRONT SIDEWALK – See p. 11, #30 for driveways.
Also, front sidewalks must be replaced with concrete, and not painted/coated in such a way that natural appearance/color of the concrete is changed.

IRRIGATION – See p. 12 #4 for irrigation. It helps to know how to set the time of day in your irrigation controller (you’ll need a key to open your controller box), since if you do not have a whole house generator the controller’s time will have to be reset after a power outage.

EAVESTROUGHS AND GUTTERS – See p.5, #13 for cleaning. When replacing eavestroughs and gutters the color should match as close as possible the current stain of the villa.

WHOLE HOUSE GENERATOR – Needs to be installed either at rear or side of villa. When these run the noise generated is similar to that of a gas-powered push lawn mower.

FRONT DOOR HAND RAILS – Should be made of aluminum (not wood) and brown in color to match villa window.

PARKING – No part of any vehicle (car, truck, SUV, etc.) is allowed to be parked on any grass or lawn surface.

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8 The only excepRon to double hung windows is a villa in which double hung windows were installed at the Rme of original construcRon.

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