Beautiful Salem Property
Architectural Guidelines
Minimum Main Floor Square Footage - Rambler - 2200
2 Story - 1800 (2600 sq.ft. total)
Minimum cost of home, excluding lot and landscaping, $250,000.
Floor plans of all buildings including homes, detached garages, and auxiliary buildings must be approved and meet standards set by harvest Ridge Architectural Control Committee before City will approve and issue building permits.Exterior: 100% Masonry, Rock, brick, stucco, or other committee-approved equal. (60% brick or rock miminum)
Roof: 30 Year wood, tile, slate, concrete, architectural asphalt shingles
Garage: Minimum 2 car garage
General Landscaping Information
Landscaping plans shall be approved by the Architectural Control Committee
Landscape plans must be submitted to the ACC within ten days of passing the “four-way” inspection by the City of Salem.
All Owners and Residents are required to install or cause to be installed all landscaping and irrigation based on the following schedule:
- Front yard landscaping 30 days from the date the home receives a certificate of occupancy.
- Rear, side and corner side yard landscaping installed within 90 days from the date of receipt of a certificate of occupancy, weather permitting.
- Owners and Merchant-Builders whose homes receive certificate of occupancy during the months of October through march will be allowed to postpone the installation of their landscaping until the following June 30th.
- Merchant-Builders are required to offer a front yard landscape option package to Owners that meets the above minimum requirements.
- All front yards shall be fully landscaped and irrigated using a combination of turf grass; trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers. Required and included in the landscaping plan on the frontage of each Lot, shall be minimum 2-inch caliper trees, spaced every 40 feet, centered within the planter strip in back of the curb.
- Lot Owners who do not commence building a Unit within one year from the date of Closing of a purchase from Declarant shall be required to install and maintain the 7 foot planter strip on the front of each Lot, including adequate automatic sprinkler system, in accordance with a landscape plan approved by the ACC.
- Lot Owners who do not commence building a Unit within one year from the date of Closing of a purchase from Declarant shall be required to spray for weeds each May and August or more often if needed.
Fencing
- All fences (design and materials must be approved by the ACC.
- Wire and wood fences are prohibited unless otherwise approved by ACC.
- All fences shall be decorator metal (steel or wrought iron) and such fences may include finished brick or stone pony walls and/or columns, and all must be approved by the ACC.
- Privacy shall be accomplished by landscaping using hedges, plants and bushes.