Living at Meritage's Live Oak Development in Redlands, CA

The parkway is the patch of land that runs between the sidewalk and road.  As we understand it, this land is owned by the City, but managed by the HOA.  Modifications to these parkways are  prohibited per the only newsletter sent out to the HOA in June 2025, but i t appears this rule is not being enforced by the developer-controlled HOA given  the multitude of the homes in the Alder and Sycamore communities which have modified the parkways in front of their respective homes.    This is another important one for us since the development is too densely populated to allow for such a high level of homeowner personalization.  From our perspective, a high level of personalization without adherence to an aesthetic standard in a community in which homes are located so closely together, combined with the fact that the HOA is not enforcing (among other things) required garage usage which has led to very limited street parking on Bergamot Street and numbers of ve...

Week of 02/23/26 - Signage installed ahead of the park' s grand opening to the public.  We are hopeful that the City of Redlands will enforce dog leash laws, unlike our Meritage-controlled HOA Board in the Live Oak community. Ignorance or Entitlement? Responsible and conscientious dog-owners should know better than to allow their dogs to run off-leash in public spaces, and, especially, in newly-built baseball, football, and soccer fields.  Alas, as they say, there's nothing common about common sense and then you also have your entitled jerks!    An angry neighbor recently asked why I took this so personally to which I responded that my feelings are irrelevant... the only argument that matters is that IT IS THE LAW .   San Bernardino County Leash Law (Code: 32.0108 Control of Animals) requires all animals to be restrained whenever they are on public property or unenclosed private property. (a) No person owning or having control of any animal shall perm...