Author: Cory McNeely

The annual meeting of the Pinebrook Homeowner Association will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 commencing at 7:00 p.m. at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company located at 7950 Pinebrook Road, Park City, Utah.  The following matters of business will be transacted during the meeting:

1. Presentation and review of 2022 financial statements and operating budget for 2023.
2. General update of PHOA activities and community projects.
3. Fire Safety Committee update on fire mitigation efforts undertaken by the Pinebrook Homeowners Association and Pinebrook Master Association.
4. Election to fill three, three-year term seats on the board of directors.
5. Discussion of any other matters of business properly brought before the board of directors.

If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, you may complete and return the 2023 annual meeting proxy  The proxy will give you the option of designating the Association or a homeowner to vote in the board of directors election on your behalf.  Proxies must be delivered by 5pm on Monday, December 4th.  They can be delivered by email to info@pbhoa.org, or mailed or hand-delivered to the Pinebrook Homeowners Association at 7950 Pinebrook Road, Park City, UT 84098. 

All members of the Pinebrook HOA are welcome to attend our next meeting which is scheduled for Tuesday, September 26th at 6:00pm in-person at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company, 7950 Pinebrook Road.

All members of the Pinebrook HOA are welcome to attend our next meeting which is scheduled for Thursday, August 24th at 6:00pm in-person at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company, 7950 Pinebrook Road.

Information tables during the entire event will cover the following fire safety topics:

·       Defensible Space – How can the Park City Fire Department help?

·       Emergency Notification Systems – How do they work and are you registered?

·       Planning for Evacuations – Are you familiar with Pinebrook’s two-page evacuation planning document?

·       Community Engagement – Learn about the Fire Safety Committee and how to get involved.

·       Weed Issues – What we all should want to know!

Plus there will be tables hosted by local arborists and tree service companies, as well as Basin Recreation and High Valley Transit.

Speakers too – from 11am to noon including Park City Fire, the Summit County Fire Warden, Summit County Emergency Management and the Pinebrook Fire Safety Committee.

Free lunch (up to $10 value) for any Pinebrook resident that comes and participates at the event. 

We expect that a fire truck will be joining us too!

Please email us at pinebrookfiresafety@gmail.com with any questions or for more information.

Dumpsters and wood chipper will be provided by the Pinebrook Master Association and Pinebrook Homeowners Association again this year from Saturday, May 27th to Sunday, June 4th.

They will be in the usual location in the parking lot of the Pinebrook Park. In the past few years, use of the dumpsters has increasingly been abused by non-residents, landscape companies, after-hour dumping in the parking lot (not in the dumpsters), and dumping of toxic and hazardous materials. Crews may implement additional screening and security measures this year to help control and manage the cleanup efforts. Continued abuse could ultimately lead to discontinuation of this highly valued service. Please:

1.) Do not invite your friends in neighboring communities to use Pinebrook’s dumpsters.

2.) All disposed materials must be placed in the dumpsters and wood stacked in marked locations for chipping. Do not dump truckloads of debris in the parking lot for the crews to pick up and dispose of in the dumpsters.

3.) If you hire a landscape company to help with spring cleanup, please make sure they are only acting on your behalf. They are not allowed to dispose of waste and debris from other customers in other neighborhoods.

4.) Do not dump anything toxic or hazardous! NO used appliances, paint, paint rags, tires, propane tanks, chemicals, needles and medical waste, batteries, etc. Save those for Summit County’s Hazard Material Collection events instead.

5.)  Do not dump mattresses or box springs.

6.) If you are unable to haul your trees or branches to the park to be chipped, you will need to contact a private chipping service or the Park City Fire District to sign up for their free mobile chipping service. Their schedule will fill quickly, so don’t delay. NEITHER THE PHOA OR PMA PROVIDE MOBILE, CURBSIDE CHIPPING SERVICES.

Thank you for your cooperation and efforts to make this a great community event!

SBWRD has asked that we pass along to our members information regarding clean-water connections to the sewer system that can overload the sewers, especially during periods of very wet weather like we’ve received this winter. Please see the message regarding their program HERE.

Residential

Beware of roofalanches as the spring sun starts to heat all of that snow that accumulated on your roof this winter. As the name implies, a “roofalanche” is a snow slab on your home’s roof sections that can without warning slide off with velocity, crushing anything that lies in its path below the roof line. 

Backcountry

Pinebrook residents and their travel companions (human and canine) traveling by skis, board, snowshoes, or hiking boots into the neighborhood’s immediate back country need to be extremely suspicious right now of the snowpack — and be on the watch for overconfidence due to Pinebrook area terrain familiarity. 

Give ridges and other areas with cornices — an overhanging mass of wind-deposited snow — a very wide berth right now, remembering that cornices fail farther back from their overhang edge than one might expect. The recent snow and wind from the last few storms has also in some cases buried or obscured the cornices in the backcountry, transforming them into harmless looking, pillowy terrain. They are the opposite of harmless. A buried “cornice crevasse” — a crack that runs parallel to the cornice’s overhanging edge — was discovered on Monday 4/3 along the northeast ridgeline of Pinebrook Peak with an unknown length and estimated depth of at least 10 feet. The attached photo shows an exposed cornice crevasse that is not hidden; the one on the east face of Pinebrook Peak, just below the ridgeline, lies hidden under a layer of wind-blown snow. There is another reason to not travel immediately below or on terrain with suspected cornices: on steeper slopes (typically, but not always, steeper than 30 degrees), a broken cornice slab can trigger an avalanche starting at the point where the slab impacts the slope immediately below.

It is not uncommon now to find 5-7 foot deep tree wells, those funnel-shaped gaps between the snowpack and the base of a tree. They are surprisingly easy to slide into and extremely hard to escape without assistance. A similar void in the snow can also form between the snowpack and the trunk of a fallen tree.

Finally, even though avalanches are not something associated with Pinebrook’s backcountry, the massive snowpack and steadily increasing daytime temps means that  traveling below, above or adjacent to terrain that is steeper than 30 degrees right now means heightened risk. 

Know before you go. 

Additional resources:

https://utahavalanchecenter.org

The next meeting of the Pinebrook HOA Board of Directors is scheduled in-person for Thursday, April 13th, at 6:00pm at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company, 7950 Pinebrook Road. Members of the Pinebrook HOA are welcome to attend.

Reminder statements were sent on March 16th to members who have not yet paid their 2023 PHOA assessment of $400. For those who have recently sent or delivered payments that crossed with the reminder statements, please disregard the statement. For those who have yet to pay their assessment, please remit payment by March 31st. Thank you!

The next meeting of the Pinebrook HOA Board of Directors has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 15th at 6:00pm in-person at the offices of Gorgoza Mutual Water Company, 7950 Pinebrook Road. Members of the Pinebrook HOA are welcome to attend.