2. The Annual Picnic is September 27th at Vogt Brothers Park, with the
washer tournament starting at 3pm. We will have Giardina Gourmet
Dogs on hand for the main dish. Please bring a side to share and a
dessert if you want to enter the bake-off. There will be prizes for
washers & the bake-off. You will receive your invitation with all
the details later this week.

3. Rose Properties Update – here is a note from the developer:

During our earlier construction efforts, we uncovered a few things that made us pause:

1. We encountered some loosely consolidated sand in an area that impacted our retaining wall design

2. We encountered some bedrock close to the surface that also impacted our retaining wall design, as well as water main and other utility construction

3. We encountered some unmarked buried fiber optic cables along River Road that impacted our storm sewer installation
You always have to be resilient in the construction business, but in this case it was almost a perfect storm of challenges we encountered. For one thing, we learned that you can never have enough soil borings.

Solutions have been found for all these issues, but not without investigation and testing, evaluation of viable options, and analysis of cost implications. All of those tasks took a fair amount of time, more time than we desired, but necessary nonetheless.

I don’t have confirmation, but we expected to obtain permits for the retaining walls yesterday. That was key to starting construction again in earnest. You’ll see extensive activity on site in the coming weeks.

We intend to be in a position to dig footings in mid-November and then be framing over the winter, so we’ll be applying for building permits in the coming weeks. It is still our plan to have occupancy of the first buildings early in the 2nd quarter of 2015.