Pools
The Village and Harker Pools are open daily for your swimming pleasure. The Village Pool hours are 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. daily. There are no lifeguards on duty at this pool and a responsible adult must accompany all children under 14 years of age. The Harker Pool is open from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily. In addition to these hours, the Village Pool is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Monday through Friday for Adult Only Swim for owners and guests 14 years and older. Please note that the above hours may change due to weather conditions and the evening close times may be earlier as the season progresses and evening daylight hours diminish. To confirm the hours of operation, please call the Harker Pool at 622-3213 or the Village Pool at 622-3047.

Tennis
Be prepared for construction disturbances this Summer and Fall. Construction has started on the new Elkhorn Golf Clubhouse which is located across the parking lot from the tennis courts near the Elkhorn Village swimming pool. The noise, traffic, dust, and hustle and bustle associated with this construction will impact the tennis courts at the Elkhorn Village. So, please be patient.

The Community School
Your Association remains involved in two lawsuits both of which involve whether or not the Community School lies within the Elkhorn area as defined in the Master Declaration. You will recall from past reports that, after being turned down by the ADC, the Community School sued SVEA seeking to obtain a court decree that the school site is not within the Elkhorn Area. This lawsuit was initiated after more than 15 years of treating the school site as if it were in the Elkhorn area.

Specifically, during the last 15 years the owner of the Community School site paid assessments, voted on Association issues and applied for ADC approval of improvement projects. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed by the Community School, the Sagewillow Subdivision Owners' Association also sued SVEA but it is seeking to prevent the school site and the lots of its members from being excluded from the Elkhorn Area. We have just been informed that individual Sagewillow Subdivision lot owners will be joining their association's lawsuit as part of the effort to prevent loss of their valuable rights as members of SVEA. There has been no trial date set in either lawsuit as of this report. Consequently, a resolution of the disputes will be months in the future.

Elkhorn Golf Club & Elkhorn Springs
CG-Elkhorn has obtained design approval from the Sun Valley Planning and Zoning Commission and SVEA’s Architectural Design Committee for their new clubhouse, and construction as noted above has begun. Work continues on the renovations of the course and the current plan calls for a June 1, 2005 Grand Opening for the course and the new clubhouse. An agreement exists for the use of the golf course (whether it is public or private) by SVEA members and their guests. This agreement basically gives SVEA owners and their resident guests 20% of the available daily rounds not to exceed 3000 rounds each year. A 10% discount on greens fees is also extended to SVEA members, their renters, and guests. For information regarding the Elkhorn Golf Club you may call 208-622-3300.

The SVEA Architectural Design Committee has approved plans for Phase I of the Elkhorn Springs project. This Phase includes five residential buildings with a total of 42 units. Two of the buildings will have eighteen units in each, and three of the buildings will be paired townhomes. Also included in the first phase are three commercial buildings, a sales office, a restaurant and, a country store. For information regarding the residential portion of the Elkhorn Springs development you may contact Suzanne Williams with Sun Valley Real Estate at 208-726-6000.

War on Weeds
We are in the fourth year of our ongoing weed control program for the SVEA open space areas. If you live adjacent to any open space areas that are infested with noxious weeds that we have missed, or if you have been hiking or biking on any of the open space trails or hillsides and have noticed weeds, please give us a call with the locations. Also, take a few minutes and check your property for weeds. If we make this a group effort, we can be much more effective.

If you have questions concerning the treatment and identification of noxious weeds, you can call Blaine County Weed Control at 788-5516. For more information and pictures of these weeds please go to: http://www.oneplan.org/Crop/noxWeeds/nwnxWeed.htm  or http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/blaine/weed.htm  .

ADC Changes
The Board of Directors recently made changes to the Architectural Design Committee (ADC) Manual and submittal requirements. Those changes include: notification to neighbors within 100’, the requirement of staking and a staking plan, the requirement of showing adjacent structures on plans, and the requirement of indicating tree sizes on plans. For those of you planning to construct a home on your vacant lot or remodel an existing home, please contact the office for information or a copy of the revised documents. You may also retrieve the information from our website: www.elkhorn-assoc.org.

Water Conservation
It has been easy to be lulled by our frequent afternoon showers into forgetting that Idaho is still suffering from drought. Please remember to continue to work on conserving water by practicing the following principles.

A heavy rain means you don’t have to water at all. Teach the family how to turn off an automatic sprinkler system in case a storm comes up during the sprinkling cycle. Observe The Sun Valley Water & Sewer District’s odd–even days sprinkling schedule and their suggestion that each sprinkler line is limited to a 30 minute cycle. Please try to water your lawn only during the cool times of the day to minimize evaporation.

Crown Ranch
The lawsuit between the City of Sun Valley and the developer of the originally proposed 13 unit Crown Ranch Phase 5 is still pending. However, the City Council recently agreed to allow Planning & Zoning to review a revised 11-unit plan for Phase 5. The SVEA Architectural Design Committee denied the 13-unit development when it was presented to them. A revised 11-unit plan has not been submitted to SVEA to date.