All changes to the exterior of your home or to your property must be reviewed and approved by the Blackthorne Estates Architecture Review Committee (ARC) PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION/INSTALLATION.  Submitting an ARC request is easy. First, complete the ARC Change Request Form which is available in either MS Word or .pdf formats at http://www.blackthorneestates.org/documents.  If you have provided with your initial request all of the pertinent information described above, the ARC committee review should be complete within 7 days. Incomplete requests and requests that require a site visit, verification of state, county or city codes and/or an interpretation of the Declaration of Restrictions by the Board can take up to 30 days.

Invoices for the 2015 Annual Blackthorne Estates Homes Association dues were mailed out in January with a due date of February 28th, 2015.  Dues remained at $600.00 for the fourth consecutive year.  Although the Homes Association Declaration fixes January 1st as the contractual due date, the Advisory Board has been able to manage the annual budget to have enough carry over to pay January and February expenses without a dependency on the new year’s dues revenue and, therefore, extended the due date to allow households some level of recovery from Christmas and other end of year expenses.    Continue reading 2015 Homes Association Dues →

The pool parking lot will be blocked off and unavailable Sunday afternoon, September 11th through Wednesday morning, September 14th for maintenance, resurfacing and repainting.  Please take care not to walk on, ride bikes or other toys on or drive on the parking lot surface during this time.  Continue reading Parking Lot Maintenance →

To validate the problem before committing significant Homes Association dollars for complete tree removal and replacement, an arborist was invited to physically inspect all of the pines on the Mission Rd screening berms. The bad news is that the pine trees in question look as good today as they are ever going to look. They are over 10 years old and have nearly reached their maximum size. They have contracted a variety of diseases, infestations or stunted growth conditions. They can be sprayed; they can be pruned; and the needles can be removed to promote longer life, but… Continue reading Common Ground Trees →

The 2011 Annual Blackthorne Estates Homes Association meeting has been rescheduled for 7:30 PM on Tuesday, March 22nd in the Sunrise Point Elementary cafeteria (15800 Roe Avenue, Overland Park, KS 66224). Continue reading New Date Selected for 2011 Annual Blackthorne Estates Homes Assoc Mtg →