The Friday Flyer • SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

CANYON LAKE’S NEWSPAPER • SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
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With the installation of new playground equipment at Outrigger Park now completed, and the Beautification Initiative (as led by former GM Chris Mitchell) is coming to an end, the Board wants members to get involved in helping to develop a new Long Range Master Plan.
‘Speak now or hold your peace’
BY DONNA RITCHIE
EDITOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER
Residents are asked to “speak now or forever hold your peace” as the Facility Review Committee wraps up the Long Range Plan Survey.
That’s the word from FRC Chair Steve Libring, who says the survey is in- tended to be the “community’s plan.” In order for that to happen, the community needs to participate, says Steve. Other- wise, only the voices of those who have participated will be heard.
“We don’t want the future of Canyon Lake to be guided by just a few who actively get involved; we want to hear from everyone and get a good cross representation of the community,” says Steve.
The Long Range Plan Survey that the
FRC conducted to gauge the community’s interest in future community enhance- ments as part of a proposed Long Range Plan is coming to an end.
Steve adds, “The community continu- ally asks that (all) the Boards run things by them for a vote before spending large sums of money.
The survey provides members with a chance to informally vote and provide some initial guidance as to what’s im- portant to them. If you don’t vote now, then you cannot complain later.”
During the eight workshops the FRC held in August, it received 130 sugges- tions for community enhancements from various committees, clubs and members. The suggestions ranged from a splash pad and meditation maze to a second boat tunnel at the causeway and lighted
buoys. Many of the ideas suggested fol- low a familiar theme – what can be done to enhance property values in Canyon Lake.
The purpose of the survey is to allow Association members an opportunity to select the top five enhancements they would like to see included in the updat- ing of the Canyon Lake Master Plan for the CLPOA.
The last Master Plan was created about 30 years ago and, since that time, many new features have been built in the communities surrounding Canyon Lake. Participants in the Long Range Plan Survey will help the FRC gauge the level of interest in certain new facilities that the CLPOA could consider in the
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