Riverwood Forward

Source: openclipart.org      So a certain mailer arrived in mailboxes today, endorsing a certain group of candidates. These candidates are mostly former Board members who we voted off last year, and with good reason.     While this mailer may look a little like the one our team sent out last year, these are NOT our choice of candidates. Tom Conlee, Janice Tankson, Mike Foster, and Paul Westphal are the Board members we, as a community, worked so hard to remove from the Board a year ago.      Let's get straight to the point: Westphal's group has had YEARS to prove what kind of leadership they will provide to Riverwood, and actions speak louder than words. Let's take a closer look at their campaign promises versus their history on the Board. “ Getting out CCR’s amended to eliminate any conversions in Riverwood, to rental properties”      Westphal's group has already proven incapable of success in this endeavor, based on the failure of 2022's “Get Out the Vote” initiat

Our beloved neighborhood is made up of 1,134 homes. That's a lot.     When you look at the average number of people per household in our area, you are looking at a population in our neighborhood that is comparable to an entire town! (If we were to somehow add a store or two, we could be a town. We already have a school, after all!) Data from Point2Homes.com     Not unlike a town, we have a political climate. We have elected leaders. We have people with widely different views and ideas about what is best for the community. And lately, this political climate has been changing. I think it has been changing for the better. Hear me out:     When Belz, the developer who built the neighborhood, started his endeavor over thirty years ago, he had a vested interest in protecting his investment. He had HOA documents drawn up that, in short, gave him all of the power and the say-so over the Board and in the neighborhood, until all the properties were sold. While he was still developing the are