Broyhill Crest Community Guidelines
The quiet enjoyment and preservation of our community should be a personal priority of us all. The Community Guidelines are intended to help cultivate and maintain the safety and the beauty of our community and its neighborhoods, and to promote the continuation of Broyhill Crest as a desirable and pleasant place to live. Moreover, as homes are the principal investments of most families, we cannot afford to permit our properties to diminish in value through lack of attention to our environment. There is a direct and proven relationship between the value of one’s home and the quality of its neighborhood. We trust these guidelines will foster a common understanding which can unify the neighborhood diversity we enjoy and serve as a family pledge to uphold its precepts. As a member of the community, it is each resident’s responsibility to support these common actions:
1. We will respect ourselves and our neighbors by maintaining a neat
residential appearance of our property through appropriate home
maintenance and lawn care, maintaining clear sidewalks, removing
rubbish, adhering to vehicle care and parking regulations, and
reasonably expeditious completion and clean-up of construction or
renovation projects.
2. We will show courtesy to each other by reducing noise in consideration
of our neighbors and by managing our pets so that others may live
annoyance-free.
3. We will support one another’s safety and the security of each other’s
property by taking actions to watch over our children, to be vigilant to
perpetual traffic offenders and to deter potential criminals from being
attracted to our homes and neighborhoods; and by being ever watchful
and alert for suspicious activity.
4. We will, from a practical and business point of view, protect each
other’s investment by being concerned about the quality of the
condition of our community, it’s neighborly character, its natural
beauty, and its upkeep.
5. We will all work together, welcoming newcomers, settling differences
between us with a mutually positive attitude and meeting challenges
to our neighborhood integrity by developing a common unified effort.
The foregoing is not intended to be construed as covenants nor intrusions upon the quiet enjoyment of one’s personal lifestyle, but rather it is to serve as a friendly reminder of community expectations, for which ultimate enforcement of violations will be guided by community opinion and provisions of the Code of Fairfax County. These guidelines were developed in 1994, but apply equally well today. They have been approved by the Board and reaffirmed several times including in 2009.
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