A Message from the Board

07/01/2026

Dear Chadwick Square Residents,

There are two events in our community in July I want to bring to your attention. First is the first of two pool parties. It will be on Tuesday July 14 at 5:00 PM. Flyers will be distributed soon with more details. Then, on Saturday July 18 there will be the Chadwick Square Yard Sale day. More information will be coming on that as well. Finally, the next Board of Directors meeting will be on August 27 at 6:00 PM at the library. We have begun to solicit for new board members. Being a board member is an excellent way to get to know your neighbors better and to give back to our wonderful community.

The rest of this note will be focused on our Tree Management Plan and our proposed approach to planting of trees and shrubs in the common areas. The common areas of our neighborhood, which belong to you all managed by the Chadwick Square Park Association Board, were planted over 40 years ago. There has been no overall plan for the maintenance, preservation and future of our common areas until now. As a result, we have been reacting to down, dead or diseased trees without a plan to replace. Now, through the substantial contributions of Scott Lewendon, Chadwick resident and professional Landscape Architect and Joe Ryan, chair of the Grounds Committee, we have a plan for plantings of trees and shrubs that the Board can use to guide its investments in the common area grounds each year going forward. As you know from taking care of your own yards, landscaping is a constant effort year after year. We expect the full implementation of the plan will take 10 years. This is because of the immense amount of work, the optimal times to plant and our financial planning so we can fund this plan reliably each year. We will continue to remove diseased and dead trees and this fall begin to replace them with mostly  ornamental varieties of trees which are both flowering and not as large as the original trees planted in the common areas. This fall we will begin planting in two areas: on the west end of the common area between Brightonwood and Rusfield and the west end of the common area between Standish and York. For these planted new trees we will need volunteers to water the plantings regularly until the trees are established. Fortunately, we have the volunteers lined up for the Fall 2026 sections.

You can view the the overall plan and also a slide slow with a briefer description here. 

There is another part of the plan I want to bring to your attention . Every resident has their back yard border our common grounds. Many people have or would like to have additional plantings to provide screening or beauty or both for their back yards. Everyones taste in this regard is diverse and we do not want to presume to know what each resident would like nor does the CSPA have the budget to provide for all those plantings. The board will pass a policy in August of this year that will allow property owners to plant smaller shrubs up to five feet into the adjoining common ground. Plans for these plantings in the common ground will have to be approved by the Grounds Committee in a way similar to how the Exterior Change Requests are handled. The plants used will need to be selected from the approved list of shrubs and plants. The five feet limit is in place to ensure that the common grounds are both walkable and accessible for equipment behind our homes if required. The document below is the draft of the Board policy for the common area plantings. 

I hope this information is helpful in understanding the plan for the common grounds. Feel free to contact me, Joe or Ken if you have any questions.

Kurt Krumperman
Interim President
Kkrump123@icloud.com

TREE MANAGEMENT PLAN

A comprehensive approach to planting trees and shrubs in common areas. Read