There will be an HOA open Board meeting next Tuesday at 6 pm. Although we aren’t sure why, the meeting will be only via Zoom. This is no substitute for an in person meeting in our opinion. The primary focus will be on the 2024 budget. A copy of the agenda, along with the Zoom link, appears below.

The appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision to support the Planning Department’s position that legislative changes to zoning and the Community Plan are needed before the golf course owners plan to build 67 houses can be deemed complete is pending. This appeal will be to the Board of Supervisors. A placeholder hearing has been put on the Board’s agenda for November 28 pending receipt of a formal filing. Hopefully, our Board will share more information from our attorney at the upcoming HOA meeting. Please stand by for more action once the meeting is confirmed.

For those interested, Bonnie Gore, our County Supervisor for District 1, will be visiting Morgan Creek next Wednesday, November 8. Any of you who would like to meet with her to discuss your concerns may do so. Please contact Robyn Dahlgren for details at 916-541-2144.

At the Placer Planning Commission meeting October 26 the Commission unanimously rejected the appeal of Morgan Creek, LLC. The appeal was for the refusal of the Planning Department to deem complete the application to build 67 homes on the golf course. The Department’s position is that zoning and the Community Plan must be changed, and because of this SB330, the Affordable Housing Act’s expedited processing, does not apply.

The Community’s response to the appeal was fantastic. Many of you wrote letters to the Commission. Well over 100 residents attended the meeting in person! We sincerely thank those who actively participated for their support. It is extremely important to the preservation of our community.

Unfortunately we’re not done yet. The golf course will likely appeal the Commission’s decision to the Placer Board of Supervisors. They have 10 days to do so. The appeal has been entered as a placeholder on the Board’s calendar for November 28. Assuming that hearing takes place we will need your support once again, and more if we can find it. Please mark your calendars and write the supervisors. We’ll let you know as soon as the date is confirmed. The contact information appears below:

Apologies for the error!

The threat is real. The golf course’s appeal to build 67 houses will be heard by the Planning Commission on October 26 starting at 10 am in Auburn. The meeting agenda appears below.

If you care what happens to your community and your property values attend in person. If you can’t attend write your Commissioners. Do it now! It is really important. Details are in the previous post on mcowners.com. We have strength in numbers. Let’s show them.

Thanks for your support.

By now most of you should have received our flyer outlining what YOU can do to stop building more homes in our Community. Read it. Don’t procrastinate. Write your Commissioners today! Now! Tell them your objections. A copy of the flyer appears below, as well as contact info for the Commissioners. Come to the Commission meeting October 26.

We can’t overemphasize how important this is to Morgan Creek’s future. Do it now!

We need help passing out informational flyers in advance of the Placer Planning Commission meeting October 26. We are looking for volunteers to pass out the flyers door to door and possibly at the Vineyard, Walerga and Pinehurst gate. Were asking for help on both the South and North side. It’s a small commitment of your time to help us fight the golf course owners plans to develop the property by building 67 homes!

If you can help, please email us at jadrainc1@gmail.com and tell us what you can do.

It’s your neighborhood that’s at risk!

As most of you know, the golf course owners have appealed the Placer Planning Department’s decision to not deem their application complete without legislative changes to the Dry Creek/West Placer Community Plan and revision of zoning. A hearing is scheduled before the Planning Commission On October 26. We need to act. What can I do?

• Immediately send an email to each individual Commissioner specifying your objections. Their email addresses are shown in the Commission’s website, https://www.placer.ca.gov/2403/Planning-Commission. We do not recommend cookie cuter responses so please make them original. The main reasons the Planning Department objected to the application is they contend it is in conflict with the West Placer/Dry Creek Community Plan. Go to this post on our website, mcowners.com for a copy of the appropriate section of the plan. We’ve highlighted in yellow those parts which we consider most relevant. You can also talk about road congestion, easements on our private roads, etc., but you be the judge.
• Attend the Planning Commission meeting IN PERSON. A large turnout showing community solidarity is the most effective response we can have. The meeting is October 26 starting at 10 am at 3091 County Center Drive, Auburn. We are trying to get this first on the agenda. We will have a final agenda to publish here as soon as it comes out, probably a week before.
• Talk to your neighbors. Have them register on the blog for real time updates and how they can help, https://atomic-temporary-145029327.wpcomstaging.com/registration/. We need to reach more people.
• We need volunteers. We need an overall coordinator as well as people to possibly design and hand out flyers, and contact residents. If you can help, please contact us at jadrainc1@gmail.com with what you are willing to do and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

Comments and suggestions are strongly encouraged. In the BLOG at the top of the post click “Comments” to view them and add your own.

Morgan Creek, LLC has appealed the decision of the Placer County planning department that their project application to reduce or remove the golf course and build new homes on the property is incomplete. The principal contention is that approval requires legislative action to amend the original Community Plan and change the existing zoning. The Placer County Planning Commission will hear their appeal on October 26 sometime after 10 am. We will be more specific as soon as the agenda is published. Stay tuned.

Many of us who are original buyers or are early owners, bought here because of the open space, community ambiance, and housing density expressed in the original plan. To have that vision changed arbitrarily without legislative action and without the Community weighing in is completely unacceptable.

We need to let the Planning Commission know that the planning department was correct in their determination to keep our Community as originally constituted. Whether we have an organized demonstration is yet to be determined. However, you are urged to save the date OCTOBER 26, to attend the meeting if possible to voice your objections.

This may be the first of many hurdles the proposed development faces, possibly next at the County Board of Supervisors level. While we can’t force the golf course as a business to remain, our county officials, both appointed and elected, need to know we will not stand by and have the community we all bought into destroyed arbitrarily with over crowding from new homes, and destruction of maintained open space.

As usual, comments are welcome. Let your neighbors know what they could lose. Join the BLOG. Get involved. See you on the 26th!

An open Board meeting was held Tuesday, September 12 at Dry Creek District Offices. About 25 people attended and in person and 17 via Zoom. This is a pretty poor turnout considering we have a community of over 500 homes!

The most significant announcement was the resignation of two Board members Marg and Nick, effective now. Marg’s position comes up for reelection in November and thus, she will not be replaced. Nick’s term ends next year. The Board proposed to appoint someone to fill the remainder of his term. Pam Porter volunteered. Assuming she is approved in the next executive session, she will be the newest Board member.

Pam’s appointment will leave a vacancy on the Landscape Committee she now chairs. In addition, Kathy Roberts has resigned from the Archictural Review Committee Leaving it with only one member.

All this exposes a dramatic shortage of volunteers to serve. Much of our community’s success as a great place to live is made possible by those who give back with their time and dedication. Please seriously consider applying for one of the open positions or running for the two Board seats coming up for election in November. OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU!

A brief summary of other highlights follow:

• ARC processed 7 applications since the last open meeting with 2 approved so far. Many are making changes without awareness they need approval. A letter will be going out shortly reminding people of approvals required by our CC&R’s.
• Chuck, Welcoming Committee chair, provided an interesting statistic. Only 19 new residents have moved into Morgan Creek since the first of the year.
• First Service welcomed Amamda as the latest add to the staff as assistant community manager.
• It was pointed out that the many of the new greeters brought in by Blue Knight have not performed well, rudeness, absence from post and general ineffectiveness being among the issues. Machelle, our community manager, said that they acknowledge the shortcomings, and a number of staffing changes are in process to improve the situation. If you notice something, you are encouraged to report it via the First Service 800 number.
• One homeowner expressed the opinion that there was no enforcement of CC&R’s in the community. It was pointed out that there are 320 violations of various types in process, many resulting in hearings and possible fines. Most of this occurs behind the scenes.

Since we started this BLOG 5 years ago a number of people have moved out of the community and new ones have moved in. If you are enjoying this two way forum, please let your neighbors know of our existence. They can register at mcowners.com.

As Always, your comments are welcome.

In their September 23 response to the latest request by Morgan Creek, LLC. Placer County has again deemed their Project Application incomplete. The letter has been distributed by our Board to homeowners. In their summary they point out that the County wants more clarification on the proposed 9-hole golf course and how the applicant will maintain vacated land.

Perhaps more important is the County’s continued insistence that this project is not a “development project” as defined under SB330 since it requires legislative action to change Zoning and Community planning. Removing it from SB330, the low-cost housing bill, exposes it to the full range of discussion and remedies afforded to all other development projects. This represents a very significant impact to timelines and the approval process.

On a lighter note, in a possible sign of Morgan Creek, LLC’s commitment to the current golf course, they appear to be performing voluntary upgrades such as course aeration and parking lot resurfacing. Let’s hope the trend continues and maybe relations with our community might improve as well.

For those of you interested in the details, a copy of the County’s letter is included in the post below. As always, comments are welcome.