P.O. Box 871463, Canton, MI 48187
ROADS / PRRMA
Why are our roads better than most in Michigan? We own and maintain them!
Pheasant Run Roadway Maintenance Association, Inc. (PRRMA) incorporates three subdivisions and Canton Township. They are Pheasant View at Pheasant Run, Fairways at Pheasant Run, and Fairway Pines at Pheasant Run. The PRRMA Board of directors incorporates a representative from each subdivision and two persons from Canton Township; a five person board.
The purpose of PRRMA is to enforce and administrate The Reciprocal Roadway Maintenance Agreement which specifies for each entity the maintenance and repairs of our roads and infrastructure systems. The Reciprocal Roadway Maintenance Agreement directly affects the entire roadway within our three (3) subdivisions and also includes Summit Parkway and Glengarry Boulevard.
A portion of the annual assessment we pay each year goes directly to PRRMA. A percentage is placed into a reserve fund which is held by PRRMA for anticipated future expenses, for the maintenance and repairs of our roads. A majority of this money is invested in secure deposits with the intention to increase the amount of cash on hand and to reduce the amount needed from each contributing entity.
PRRMA has its own web site at: http://www.prrma.org All of the financials, meeting minutes, contact information and governing documents can now be found at that site. To find out who is responsible for what (sidewalks, driveways, streets), see the the responsibility matrix (.pdf).
PRRMA UPDATE - December 16, 2024
As part of the annual road maintenance evaluation, the PRRMA Board enlisted the engineering firm of Spaulding DeDecker to evaluate the curbs and sidewalks of the property under PRRMA's jurisdiction (i.e. Fairways, Fairway Pines, Pheasant View, and Summit Parkway). The following table lists the estimated costs to repair what Spaulding DeDecker identified:
The number highlighted in RED clearly stands out from the audit. Virtually ALL the curbs in the Fairway Pines subdivision need to be replaced. They are all experiencing a condition called ASR (alkali-silica reaction).
(The picture above is an example of ASR)
ASR is a damaging mechanism in concrete that causes it to crack and deteriorate. It happens when concrete is made using certain aggregates that are reactive with alkali.
PRRMA Board member Greg Hohenberger (Canton Twp. Director of Leisure Services) informed the PRRMA Board that this was an issue with concrete that was laid in the early to mid-1990's around Canton. Spaulding did not identify this issue in Pheasant View, Fairways, or Summit Parkway. Fairways, Fairway Pines, Pheasant View, and Canton Twp. contribute ~$350K annually to PRRMA. These funds are used to maintain the roads, sidewalks, and curbs of the PRRMA members. In addition, PRRMA maintains reserves between $250K and $500K. The reserve balance at the end of 2024 is estimated to be $450K.
Obviously repairs of $2.9 million identified by Spaulding DeDecker will take multiple years to accomplish with the funds available. Although Fairway Pines has the majority of the needed repairs, it will be the PRRMA Board’s responsibility to properly prioritized the repairs that are needed in the three subdivisions and Summit Parkway. It has been decided that the curb work in Fairway Pines will not begin until 2026.
In the monthly PRRMA Board meeting held on December 10, 2024, the Board approved the following capital projects for 2025:
Repairs of this magnitude will bring the PRRMA reserves to a level below $100K at the end of 2025. As a result, it was voted by the majority of the PRRMA Board to increase the dues of its members by 10% (the Pheasant View PRRMA representative was the only dissenting vote). This will take Pheasant View’s annual PRRMA contribution from $58,792 to $64,671.
The PVHA will vote on the 2025 budget in the January Board meeting. As part of the budget, PVHA Board will need to vote on a potential increase to the annual homeowner assessment to accommodate PRRMA’s dues increase.
2024 Roadway and sidewalk outlook
From Kevin Whitaker - Roadway Representative - June 26, 2024
Teams of HOA volunteers and Board members will be walking our neighborhood in the next several weeks identifying curb tree branches that are in violation of the Canton Twp. curb tree height ordinance. The ordinance states that branches over sidewalks must be trimmed to a minimum height of 7 feet in order to allow pedestrians an unimpeded path through our neighborhood.
The HOA team will highlight the violating branches to the homeowner. If the homeowner chooses not to trim the branches themselves, the HOA team will do the trimming. In either case, the homeowner will have the responsibility to bundle the branches for the weekly yard waste pick up.
It is our expectation that this initiative will eliminate the “bobbing and weaving” many of us have had to do in order to walk through our lovely neighborhood.
Shown below is the current evaluation of the streets inside Pheasant View. The map references the condition of the roads from a standard measuring system called PASER. This evaluation process is used by MDOT annually to measure and categorize the condition of all public roads in the State of Michigan. PRRMA employs specialized contractors to evaluate all the private road wearing surfaces in all three subdivisions. If you might like to learn more about the process you may click on this link.
We are currently in pretty good shape. Money has been set aside in 2024 for sidewalk repair. We are being asked to provide locations where water is pooling on the sidewalks. I plan to walk the sub after a substantial rainfall....but please provide me with any locations of ponding water you may have identified.
2021 Road Construction
