2016 Annual Membership Meeting

The 2016 Annual Membership Meeting of the Central Park Master Homeowners Association will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the Shelby Township Municipal Building, 52700 Van Dyke.

Sign-in begins at 6:30 PM and the meeting itself will start at 7:00 PM.

Representatives of the Gardens and Meadows Homeowners Associations will be elected to the Board of the CP Master Homeowners Association at this meeting. You will receive a meeting notice in the mail with additional information.

2015 Annual Membership Meeting

UPDATE - Board of Directors election results:

Mike Oakie was elected to represent the Manors at Central Park Condo Association and Charles Reynolds was elected to represent the Kensington at Central Park Condo Association.
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All Central Park resident should have received a meeting notice letter in the mail this week from TH Management Consultants.  They have replaced Kramer-Triad as the managing agent for the Central Park Master Association.

The 2015 Annual Membership Meeting of the Central Park Master Homeowners Association will be held on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at the Shelby Township Municipal Building, 52700 Van Dyke.  Sign-in begins at 6:30 PM and the meeting itself will start at 7:00 PM.

2014 Annual Membership Meeting

UPDATE:  Mike Malone and Matt Karrandja will represent the Meadows and Gardens, respectively, on the Central Park Master Association's Board of Directors during 2014 and 2015. Click here for the names and contact information of all four current Board members. 

The 2014 Annual Membership Meeting of the Central Park Master Association will be held on Friday May 2, 2014 at the Shelby Twp. Municipal Building.  Sign-in begins at 6:30 PM and the meeting will start at 7:00 PM.

The purpose of this meeting is to elect one representative each from the Gardens and Meadows Associations to the Central Park Master Association Board of Directors.  Only the homeowners in the Gardens and Meadows can nominate candidates to represent them on the CP Master Board of Directors.  However, all owners who live in the Manors, Kensington, Gardens and Meadows Associations have the right to vote to select the Gardens and Meadows representatives from among those who have been nominated.

If you are unable to attend, please fill out the General Proxy you recently received in the mail and return it to either Kramer-Triad or give it to a neighbor who will be attending so that we can use your proxy to count towards making the quorum.  Click here to download and print a blank General Proxy form.

Click here to read the unapproved minutes of the 2013 Annual Membership Meeting.

Dec 18th Lombardo meeting

At last evening's meeting, Greg Windingland of Lombardo Homes, Inc. gave a presentation using the information shown on the slides contained in this PDF file.

It is Lombardo's intent to proceed with getting the necessary approvals to develop the "Combined" subdivision layout proposal shown on Page 11 of the PDF.   The new subdivision would be called "Lancaster at Central Park" and it would have approximately 117 lots with nominal dimensions of 60 by 120 feet.  Lancaster would have its own homeowners association and would become the fifth sub-association belonging to the Central Park Master Association.

The "Combined" proposal has numerous advantages over the "Stand-alone" proposal shown on Page 10 of the PDF, however it requires an expansion of the previously defined bounds of the Central Park Planned Unit Development.  Therefore, Lombardo Homes must seek approvals from the boards of the five current associations in Central Park, Grand/Sakwa (the original developer of the Central Park Planned Unit Development) and the Shelby Township Planning Commission.

The discussion following his presentation focused on the following issues:

(A) Types of homes planned to be built - same or similar to those offered at their Lake Arrowhead subdivision near 22 Mile Rd. and Card Rd.; full basement, 2 car attached garage, full brick on all four sides of first level.

(B) Start of Construction - construction of units 1-4 and 16-25 could begin in the second quarter of 2014 since they are the same lots that were previously approved by the Township in 2011 for the original 53 unit Lancaster subdivision. That approval has since expired but Lombardo can get re-approved for these lots without having to wait for the remaining approvals.

(C) Impact on school enrollment and attendance boundaries - Utica Community Schools has an Enrollment Distribution Advisory Committee (EDAC) consisting of parent volunteers which, under the direction of the Director of Pupil Services, receives newly-approved subdivision plats from the Township and analyzes the future impact on enrollments in the elementary and secondary schools. If necessary to avoid overcrowding, the EDAC could recommend that the new subdivision be assigned to different schools than the adjacent subdivisions.  These recommendations would be presented to the School Board and if approved, they would go into effect before the first home is sold in the new subdivision.  In this situation, since the EDAC has already looked at the enrollment impact of the previously-approved 53 unit Lancaster subdivision, they would only be addressing the increase from 53 to about 117 homes.

(D)  New entrance on Van Dyke - will this be a Lancaster Association or CP Master Association commons area?; will it have streetlighting and a decorative wall(s) similar to the entrance at North Central Park?; will the wall contain any signage?; will construction traffic be limited to using this entrance?; can the eastern-most end of the roadway be boulevarded?  It was agreed that these issues will be discussed and worked out in Jan. 2014 between Lombardo and CP Master Association Board members.

Board of Directors Election Results

At the 2013 Annual Membership Meeting on April 10, 2013, two new members were elected to the Central Park Master Association's Board of Directors:

• Harry Blancke was elected to a two-year term as the representative of the Kensington Condominium Association, replacing Ted McCoy who declined to run for a third term.
• Mike Oakie was elected to a two-year term as the representative of the Manors Condominium Association, replacing Mike Grobbel who declined to run for a third term.

The new Board held their first meeting on April 29, 2013 and elected their officers for the upcoming year:

• President: Mike Oakie
• Vice-president: Mike Malone
• Secretary: Harry Blancke
• Treasurer: Brian Pesola

Click here to view their contact information along with a map showing the locations of the Kensington, Manors, Meadows and Gardens as well as the Community Areas maintained by the Central Park Master Association.

Minutes of the March 25, 2013 BoD Meeting

Central Park Master Association

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

March 25, 2013

(unapproved)

1. Meeting was called to order at 7:02 PM; a quorum of members was present: Mike Grobbel, Mike Malone and Brian Pesola.  Ted McCoy was absent.  Also in attendance was Ryan Dorner of Kramer-Triad.

2. The Board approved the Minutes of the Oct. 15, 2012 Board Meeting as presented.
   
   
3. Old Business

1. Damaged streetlight replacement at Heyward and Kingsland: underground wires were also damaged and must be repaired after the frost is out of the ground; wire repairs and streetlight replacement will be made as soon as the weather warms up.
2. Status of fountain installations in the three detention ponds: the Board approved and signed a contract providing for (a) the necessary electrical work to be performed by RB & Sons Electrical Contractor ($6,610) and (b) the purchase and installation of three Aquamaster brand, Master series ½ HP fountains with Lakewood spray nozzle by MCI Aquatic Management Co. ($9,300); expectation is that all work is to be completed before the start of Summer.
3. Groundwater contamination update by Mike Grobbel: “Step 1 Summary Report, Oct. 17, 2012” was received on Jan. 15, 2013 from Dragun & Associates. This report contains test results of groundwater samples taken from temporary monitoring wells located just inside the eastern property line of the former Visteon plant.  These monitoring locations were drilled at 13 different locations along the property line extending from the northwest corner of the Manors at Central Park north towards 23 Mile Rd. Testing of the groundwater from these 13 locations indicate only 3 locations where groundwater was found to be contaminated by amounts of TCE in excess of the EPA drinking water standard of 5 parts per billion.  These 3 locations are in an area that is between 850 and 1,100 feet south of the center line of 23 Mile Rd. and the water samples were obtained at a depth of about 25 ft. below ground level.  These TCE levels and the location where the samples were obtained are just west of the area where similar TCE levels were measured in April 2012 on the adjacent property that is owned by Grand/Sakwa.