Plum Canyon Neighbors

Food drive this weekend in Plum Canyon

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the food drive this weekend. I am collecting cans, boxes, and any other non-perishable fod items that you wish to donate to the Hunger Defense Fund. This non-profit group feeds more than 2,000 hungry children that live right here in Santa Clarita. If you want to know more you can contact them at (661) 299-9273.  They are located at 26450 Ruether Avenue, #208, right behind the Home Depot on Soledad.

I will continue to collect food until Monday afternoon. I will pick up the bags in front of your door or you can drop them off in front of my door. Thanks so much.

818-929-9603

Saugus Homeowner's Association

I have been invited to speak at a HOA meeting tomorrow evening. This meeting is for a neighborhood located just west of us, on the other side of Plum Canyon. This association spent several years replacing the original board members with residents from their own neighborhood. They have been able to reduce their monthly HOA fee and provide more benefits to the residents.

The fence has finally gone back up at the south end of Castille Lane. The sewers have been completed and the new homes will be built over the next several months. There are 12 homes in Plum Canyon available for sale currently. This is just above the average for Santa Clarita. Three of these homes were never occupied. We should be in good shape economically here in our neighborhood as inventory continues to rise all over the country.

What is happening at the end of Castille Lane?

The fence has been removed from the east end of the street on Castille Lane. While many of our younger residents have been enjoying the access to the wide open spaces for biking and dirtbiking, other residents are concerned with safety. Although the street was paved over two months ago, there are no street lights. As more homes are built this will finally be a through street, but that is more than a year away. As of this writing there is no sign that a new fence will be installed.

Should the community be concerned about this? What are your thoughts about this new development here in our Plum Canyon community? Leave your comments below.

Happy Memorial Day

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone here in Plum Canyon a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. There will be some events over at City Hall on Valencia Blvd. taking place on Sunday morning, starting at 9:30 am.

The Santa Clarita Symphony will perform a variety of patriotic music, and local singers will join them for several pieces of music. It is a good way to learn more about Santa Clarita and to enjoy some of the culture that is right here in our backyard.

Plum Canyon Neighborhood Watch Meeting a Success in Santa Clarita

Our meeting was a great success. We had a house full of neighbors and enjoyed getting to know each other as Deputy Lori Baylis gave us the information we needed about what is happening here in our neighborhood.

I encourage anyone who did not come to this meeting to contact Deputy Baylis about a meeting for you and your surrounding neighbors.

We will be receiving Neighborhood Watch street and window signs next week. Because we are in the unincorporated part of Santa Clarita the county will install the signs for us.

Air Force Band To Play At College of the Canyons

The United States Air Force Band will be giving a performance Tuesday evening at 7:30. This concert will be held at the Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons. The show is free and is suitable for the entire family.

During June the Performing Arts Center will be doing Peter Pan, at several different times over a three day period. Take advantage of this professional quality show at reasonable prices. The Air Force Band is FREE!

Neighborhood Watch Meeting

We have had another car broken into here on Castille Lane. The owner heard the alarm go off around 9:50 Sunday night. By the time she got outside the person was gone. Her window was shattered and items were taken from the glove box.

Please come to our Neighborhood Watch meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 pm. We must be proactive and let the thieves know that we will not tolerate crime in our neighborhood. Deputy Baylis, from the Sheriff's Department will be leading our meeting. Come with your questions and concerned and let's work together to make Plum Canyon a safe place to live.

Our HOA Meeting

Our meeting at the library last Tuesday was very interesting. Many of you may have thought that our development was now "built out" and that we could expect to see our monthly fee go down. Not so. There will be approximately 800 more homes built, by up to four builders, on the land to the south of us. Additionally, a commercial area is planned on the flat area that faces Plum Canyon and is sided by Heller Circle and La Madrid. At this point, which could be up to two years from now, we will be "built out".

As far as safety in our community goes, the HOA has nothing to do with it. It is highly unprobable that we will ever be gated, primarily because of our public streets. The land would have to be deeded back from the city to the community and this is not likely to happen. That makes it all the more imperative that we form a strong Neighborhood Watch in our area.

The first meeting will be on Wednesday, May 16, at 7 pm. Call me if you need more information. The meeting is not intended for young children; it is too difficult to host a meeting where we can all voice our opinions openly to the Sheriff''s Department representatives that will be running the meeting to set up our Neighborhood Watch and update us on the criminal activity in recent weeks.

~Connie Green ~ crgreencrgreen@yahoo.com ~ 818.929.9603 (cell)

Plum Canyon Santa Clarita Homeowner's Meeting

The Board of Directors of our Plum Canyon Santa Clarita Homeowner's Association will be holding a meeting on Tuesday, May 1. The meeting will be at the Canyon Country Joanne Darcy Public Library. The library is located at 18601 Soledad Canyon Road in Canyon Country. The starting time of this meeting will be at 4:00. In addition to the issues of landscaping and development we will be starting a discussion of possible ways to be proactive about our recent surge in crime here in Plum Canyon.

Be sure to mark Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00 pm on your calendars for our Neighborhood Watch meeting. Remember that it is not for younger children and that we should RSVP to our host family prior to the meeting.

Next Sunday, May 6, is the 19th annual Taste of the Town event, benefitting the Santa Clarita Child and Family Center. For more information be sure to visit Taste of the Town.

Our First Neighborhood Watch Meeting

Thanks to so many of you for signing up to receive email announcements from this site. I have now gone door-to-door to all 120 homes in our Plum Canyon Homeowner's Association. Many of you told me about cars being broken into, cars stolen, and other crimes that have occurred here since November. I was shocked and dismayed to hear that our area has become so vulnerable. We are taking the first steps to changing that so our Plum Canyon community will be safe.

Our first Neighborhood Watch meeting will be on Wednesday, May 16, at 7 pm. We will hear from Deputy Baylis from the Sheriff's Department about implementing techniques and strategies to keep crime at bay. Please post comments here, at the bottom of this post, or call or email me if you have any questions about the meeting.