Author: phyllisoverstreet

The Baneberry HOA announces a Director opening on the board to fill the remaining term of President Jake Barth due to his resignation. The remaining term is from April 23, 2022 through September 21, 2023*.

Mark Scofield will be the new President and John Philibert will serve as Vice President. Phyllis Overstreet and Allen Dewalt will continue as Directors on the board.

Residents interested in filling this vacancy are asked to submit a brief biography of yourself and why you are interested in serving on the board by March 31, 2022. Submissions can be made using the site Contact Us form. The board will make a final decision on the open board seat by mid April and may want to talk with some individual applicants personally.

*Board member openings in non-election years are filled as indicated in the Baneberry HOA By-Laws and Regulations.

A message from HOA incoming President Mark Scofield:

Hello to the Baneberry community. The members of the HOA board hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a Happy New Year.

More than 145 homes decorated this year for the Christmas holidays, and we are happy to announce the winners and the honorable mention homes for 2021. I would also like to thank the Christmas selection committee which included residents from all over the subdivision in taking the time to make our contest a success.

Here are our winners:

1^st Place – 336 Baneberry Loop – $100 Gift Card

2^nd Place – 300 Baneberry Loop – $75 Gift Card

3^rd Place – 204 Silverbell Lane – $50 Gift Card

Honorable Mention –

297 Baneberry Loop, 219 Silverbell Lane, 286 Baneberry Loop, and 132 Baneberry Drive.

The HOA is happy to announce the 2^nd annual Christmas Decorating Contest. The top three homes will win prizes of $100 – $75 – $50 gift certificates. Winners will be selected by the Baneberry Christmas Contest Committee. Winners will be chosen on Christmas Eve. Good luck to everyone!!

Greetings from the HOA Board. We hope everyone is doing well through these trying times of COVID; if anyone needs assistance, please reach out through the Baneberry HOA webpage and we as a Board will see what we can do to assist our neighbors 

I wanted to take this opportunity to update the community on the upcoming annual Baneberry Community Meeting.  If this was a normal time in our lives we would be scheduled to meet in March to vote for two positions coming open on the HOA Board, go over our community financials, and address questions raised by community members.  For the sake of safety, the Baneberry Board, in conjunction with a recommendation from MJS, has determined to delay the meeting until the MAY/JUNE time frame.  The thought process on the delay was that more residents would have an opportunity to receive the COVID vaccine and the weather will be warmer, so if we needed to hold the meeting outdoors to comply with social distancing that option would be available.  So stay tuned for an update of a date soon for our community meeting.

As many of you have already noticed, our community was updated with a streetlight at the front entrance and I wanted to give a shout out to the Baneberry HOA Vice President Mark Scofield for his hard work which allowed this project to be completed.  That light increases the safety of turning into our neighborhood after sunset and undoubtedly increases the safety of the front entrance.  Mark and I have been gathering estimates to permanently repair the front entrance. We are expecting this task to be completed in the coming months, so stay tuned for notice that the main entrance is being closed for a couple of days to let the material settle and to use the Roscoe Road entrance during that time. 

Lastly, I wanted to remind our residents about parking on non-paved surfaces in the neighborhood.  There are only a few houses that continually park a car on the grass or dirt patch that has been created from parking repeatedly next to their driveway. This action violates the rules of the neighborhood and overall reduces the aesthetics of our neighborhood by the damage it causes to the grass in the yard. The reasons HOA’s exist is to ensure homes and yards are taken care of, which increase the value of everyone’s property, so please comply with the rules. Violation letters will be sent, followed by fines if rules are continually being broken.  

*Updated with Winners!*

1st Place: 736 Holm Oak

2nd Place: 142 Silverbell Lane

3rd Place: 732 Holm Oak

Honorable Mentions (no prizes): 204 Silverbell Lane, 336 Baneberry Loop, and 300 Baneberry Loop.

Congrats to our winners. Thanks to all the voters for participating.

Our first-annual Christmas Decorating Contest is here! Hang your lights and wreaths and cross your fingers that your house is the showstopper this Christmas. We are offering the same prizes as the Halloween contest: $125 gift card to the 1st place winner; $75 for 2nd place; and $50 for 3rd place. Vote for your favorites here: https://forms.gle/SWLvXDeUT2tPzzDj8. Voting closes at 3:00 p.m. on December 23rd.

In order to give our community an opportunity to take advantage of the 2019 SC Renewable Energy Programs Bill Section 58-41-40, which states:

 “(A)  It is the intent of the General Assembly to expand the opportunity to support solar energy and support access to solar energy options for all South Carolinians, including those who lack the income to afford the upfront investment in solar panels or those who do not own their homes or have suitable rooftops. The General Assembly encourages all electric service providers in this State to consider offering neighborhood community solar programs.”

Per this bill, the Baneberry HOA Board will now begin to accept and review Solar applications for approval for BaneBerry residents. The Board is working with MJS, Inc. to revise the HOA rules, but we do not want to keep residents from working towards getting Solar installed. If you are interested in pursuing solar panel installation, please submit a detailed message to either the HOA email located on this page or the Contact Us form to include: name, address and a contact number. This will allow for an HOA board member to speak with you about what is needed from the Solar Company to ensure your Solar installation is approved by the HOA Board.

Thanks,

President Jacob Barth   

***UPDATED–We have Winners!***

1st Place: 336 Baneberry Loop

2nd Place: 242 Baneberry Loop

3rd Place: 300 Baneberry Loop

It’s a sweep for the Loop.

There are three Honorable Mentions (no prizes, alas):

736 Holm Oak

128 Baneberry Drive

204 Silverbell Lane

1st, 2nd, & 3rd Place Winners: Please contact us via the Contact Us form on the website & we’ll get your prizes to you ASAP. Also, all winners and honorable mentions, if you would make sure your house is ‘lit’ tonight so we can get great pics to post.

Thanks to everyone who decorated & everyone who voted. Keep an eye out for our Christmas Decorating contest, coming soon.

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Vote for your favorite haunted house in Baneberry. 1st prize is a $125.00 gift card; 2nd Prize is a $75.00 gift card, 3rd prize is a $50.00 gift card. Enter your top three addresses here: https://forms.gle/5xrLZD6UZoZPpfkr6.

Deadline to vote is 4:00 p.m. on October 31st. We’ll post the winners Halloween night. Photos of the winning houses will be posted here on the website.

A few things we’ve noticed and want to remind our neighbors about:

• Please bag your grass clippings for pickup. Blowing them into the street or leaving yard waste uncontained at the curb can cause it to blow into other neighbor’s yards, or into the drainage system, creating issues for everyone. Learn more about dealing with yard waste at the Capital Waste Services website. If you don’t use Capital Waste, please remove your yard waste responsibly and timely. 
• Parking on the grass in yards is not allowed. Residents can request to have their driveways expanded, if needed.
• Boats are not allowed to be parked or stored permanently in yards. 
• Trash cans should be removed from the street by 9:00 a.m. the following day after trash/recycling pickup. 
• If you are considering installing a fence, it must be the wooden, six-foot fence with arches as seen throughout the neighborhood. Fence installation requests must be approved by the HOA board following the procedure outlined here. 

Questions? Use the Contact Us form and we’ll be happy to get back to you. 

 

BaneBerry Residents:

I hope everyone is doing well during these trying times of COVID that have gripped our country and communities with uncertainty and fear as to when our lives will get back to some type of normalcy.  I personally have seen neighbors coming together and leaning on one another which fills me with pride to live in one of the greatest neighborhoods in South Carolina.  I would like to also take this time to send out my appreciation to the community in regards to maintaining our personal areas and keeping the neighborhood looking great. 

As we took control of the neighborhood in April, our goal as a board was to find a cost-saving alternative to our Blue Oasis landscaping contract. We did that in finding Optimum Landscaping, which not only is going to save us thousands of dollars, but in my opinion, the new landscaping company is also better in quality.  I would like to say thank you to Mark, our HOA Vice President for doing such a good job in that matter.  Additionally, Mark came to the rescue again and found a cost-effective manner to fill in the hole at the front of the neighborhood, which most likely will be a short term solution to the problem as people turn into the neighborhood. Hopefully the fill-in of that part of the road will reduce any more erosion and possible damage to a resident’s car as they turn into the neighborhood. 

As summer comes to a close, we as a board will come together to discuss our way forward as a community. It is our goal to have the website set up in a manner that will allow the residents to have a direct line of communication to address issues as needed so we can continue to grow as a community.  I hope everyone continues to be safe, and I look forward to seeing you around the neighborhood.

Jake Barth

We’re excited to bring this website to the neighborhood, and want it to serve our needs. We are happy to publish neighborhood news. Plans for a neighborhood-wide yard sale? Let us know on the Contact Us page, and we’ll get it posted.  Is there going to be unusual traffic or a large number of vehicles due to a family event? We’ll be happy to alert folks to that as well.

What we won’t publish–individual home yard sales or items for sale. Other than that, we want to get the good news out to everyone.