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Latest News
Annual Fee deadline extended to Jan. 30th
(Posted 12-11-11)
Police to be checking for speeders in Ivy Hall
(Posted 8-31-11)
Pilling voted Ivy Hall POA President for
2011-2012
(Posted 8-17-11)
Be on alert for driveway paving scam
(Posted 6-8-11)
Knology installing cable in neighborhood
(Updated 7-24-11)
U.S. 17 widening to bring big changes to entrance
(Updated 7-26-11)
Coyote spotted in Ivy Hall
(Posted 3-23-11)
New
Mount Pleasant Hospital offers many services
(Updated 3-23-11)
Plans call for passive park at Laurel Hill Plantation
(Posted 7-24-11)
Registered sex offenders website to check our zip code: 29466
ANNUAL
FEE LATE DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 30, 2012
Ivy Hall property owners have until Jan. 30th, 2012, to make a payment on
their annual assessment fee and avoid late penalties.
Owners in early December should have received a
statement for the 2012 assessment, which states a due date of Jan. 1st
and a late date of Jan. 15th. The Board decided recently that late fees
will not post to accounts until after the 30th of each
month, effectively extending the payment deadline.
This year's fee is $182.32, which may be paid in installments of $91.16
-- with one installment due in January (Jan. 30th at the latest) and the
other due in July (July 30th at the latest).
All Ivy Hall property owners
are required under our Covenants to pay an annual assessment fee to the
Property Owners Association. The fee is used to pay for maintenance of
common areas, insurance and other neighborhood expenses. For a detailed
explanation of the annual assessment, read Article IV of the
Covenants.
Please don't hesitate to contact our management company, CMG, if you have
any questions. Ivy Hall's CMG representative is
Lynnette Nester.
Thank you for your
cooperation!
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POLICE TO BE CHECKING FOR SPEEDERS IN IVY HALL
Radar stops could result in tickets with hefty fines
(Posted 8-31-11)
Mount Pleasant Police are cautioning Ivy Hall residents to slow down
on neighborhood roads or risk getting a speeding ticket.
Officers in radar-equipped squad cars will monitor speeds here in the
coming weeks and issue tickets to violators. The speed limit in Ivy
Hall is 25 mph.
Residents are urged to take this caution seriously because speeding
tickets can come with substantial fines. A similar speed-enforcement
operation here some years ago yielded a number of tickets.
Since the last week in August, police have utilized its "static speed
limit checker" in Ivy Hall to help residents be more aware of their
speed. The portable device, which features a digital speed readout of
passing cars, will be moved around the neighborhood in the coming weeks.
Thank you for your cooperation in this very important matter.
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PILLING VOTED IVY HALL POA PRESIDENT FOR
2011-2012
Succeeds William Ray after Ray's five years at the helm
(Posted 8-17-11)
In a unanimous vote, longtime Ivy Hall resident Fletcher Pilling was
elected president of the Ivy Hall Property Owners Association Board of
Directors for 2011-2012 during the Board's regular August meeting.
Pilling, a former policeman who currently works in the transportation
industry, succeeds William Ray who decided not to run for a sixth
consecutive term. Ray remains on the Board and will serve as chairman of
the neighborhood's Architectural Review Committee.
In other elections,
Rebekah Whichard, who had been ARC Chairman, was voted Vice-President;
Tina Hutchinson was voted to remain Treasurer; and Bob Lang, longtime
website and newsletter coordinator, was voted Secretary, a position that
had been held by Martine Wolfe-Miller.
Wolfe-Miller agreed to continue as chairman of the Yard-Of-The-Month
committee and Kelly Frazier agreed to head up the Welcoming Committee.
Rounding out the current nine-member Board are Robin Richardson and
Sheila Anderson.
Officers of the Association are elected by the Board at the first regular
meeting after the annual meeting in July. Terms are for one year.
To contact a Board member, please go to the Contact
page of this Web site.
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BE ON
ALERT FOR DRIVEWAY PAVING SCAM
Man spotted in Creekside subdivision
(Posted 6-8-11)
Ivy Hall residents are cautioned not to fall for a scammer posing as a
paving contractor and offering to pave people’s driveways cheap.
Mount Pleasant Police say the man, a white male, is possibly traveling
the East Coast doing this sort of thing. He was recently in the Creekside
subdivision in Mount Pleasant.
A business license and solicitation permit issued by the Town of Mount
Pleasant
would be required to do this type of work.
Report any suspicious activity or people to the Mount Pleasant Police at
884-4176.
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KNOLOGY SOON TO BE OPERATIONAL IN NEIGHBORHOOD
(Updated 7-24-11)
Ivy Hall
residents soon will have another option for their television, Internet
and phone services.
Knology, which installed underground cable in the neighborhood in May and
June, is expected to become operational in the coming weeks. Residents
will be notified via fliers and mailings when they can order services.
Knology Contact Information
Brian Overeem 843-225-1113 or
843-566-2377 |
Knology for years has had a franchise
agreement with Mount Pleasant but
only
recently started burying cable here,
joining Comcast and AT&T.
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For more information on Knology's expansion into Mount Pleasant, please
read this January article from
The
Post and Courier. Information about the company's
services may be found on the company's website,
Knology.com.
Residents with questions about the underground cable installation can call local Knology
representative Brian Overeem at (office) 843-225-1113 or (cell)
843-566-2377.
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U.S. 17 WIDENING TO BRING BIG CHANGES TO OUR ENTRANCE
Half of the palm trees in the median to be removed
(Updated 7-26-11)
Ivy Hall's entrance is about to receive a major makeover as part of
the U.S. Highway 17 widening project.
Construction, which likely will start in the fall, includes measures that
will drastically reduce the size and scope of the
median. Currently about 9 feet wide, the median will be reduced to about
half that width so as to accommodate the addition of a third lane exiting
the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, the revamped median will only have room for a single
row of palm trees, which means five of the trees will have to be removed.
Additionally, the portion of the median closest to the highway will be converted from a
planter median to a simple raised concrete median.
Please view this computer-generated rendering of the proposed U.S.
17-Lexington Drive intersection (click on photo to expand):
Residents are asked to be patient while work is completed. The town is
widening U.S. 17 from four lanes to six from the Isle of Palms
Connector to the Darrell Creek subdivision exit road. For much more
information on the widening project, go to
www.townofmountpleasant.com.
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COYOTE SPOTTED IN IVY HALL
(Posted 3-23-11)
Ivy Hall resident Mary Beth Dew
recently reported seeing a coyote in the woods behind her Morningdale
Drive home.
Fortunately she grabbed her camera.
Although a bit grainy, the photo taken
this past December clearly shows an adult coyote standing at the edge of
the woods with one step on Mary Beth's lawn.
The coyote sighting is the first
recorded in the neighborhood, although the slinking marauder of the West
has been spotted around Mount Pleasant for years -- mostly in the
Patriot's Point area.
Residents should consider coyotes a
threat to pets, much like snakes, which we have a lot of around here.
There's been only one known coyote attack on a human in this state in the
past 33 years, and the coyote involved was rabid.
If you spot a coyote or have a coyote
story to share, please let us know by emailing
info@ivyhall.org.
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NEW
MOUNT PLEASANT HOSPITAL OFFERS MANY SERVICES
(Updated 3-23-11)
Ivy Hall residents can take comfort in
knowing they have a state-of-the-art hospital less than a five-minute
drive away.
Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital, located just off U.S. Highway
17 North between Wando High School and Park West, began treating patients
on Nov. 1, bringing the latest medical technology and advanced patient
care to northern Mount Pleasant and surrounding East Cooper communities.
Every aspect of the 218,856-square-foot facility – beginning with the 85
private and spacious inpatient hospital rooms with sunny bedside windows
– has been designed to offer patients and their families the best
possible health care experience.
The new hospital houses 29 departments and medical services. These
include cardiovascular services, with seamless transition when higher
level of care is needed at Roper Hospital in downtown Charleston.
Diagnostic capabilities are offered on-site, with results reported within
24 hours. Upcoming plans call for a full-time cardiologist coming on
board by mid-2011 and cardiac wellness and rehabilitation services later
in 2011.
The Women’s Center, which has a dedicated first floor entrance, features
seven labor and delivery rooms, dedicated C-section rooms and 11
post-partum rooms designed to enhance the mother’s recovery and bonding
between family and baby.
The Women’s and Infants Center is not only designed to be an attractive,
comfortable, home-away-from-home, but it’s also a secure environment with
surveillance by a high-tech camera and security system.
The hospital’s full service, 24-hour Emergency Services department has 12
treatment rooms, a highly-trained staff led by board-certified emergency
physicians – the same group of physicians who provide Emergency Services
at Roper Hospital – experienced Emergency Department nurses, and
expedited ground and air transfer transport when needed with LifeLink and
Critical Care Transportation.
All rooms are private with phone and television, and bedside registration
is available so patients can leave the Emergency Department and go
straight to a private room.
The Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital also has a 10-bed Intensive
Care Unit, six state-of-the-art surgical suites and a third floor
dedicated to medical-surgical care nursing units and private patient
rooms with phone and television.
A full range of innovative imaging and diagnostic services are offered,
including GE Healthcare’s Optima 1.5 T MRI – the first in the Southeast;
a state-of-the-art Siemens CT 128-slice scanner; GE Senographe Essential
premium, full-field digital mammography system; and PACS technology that
enables images to be viewed and distributed through a computer network
that physicians can access easily online. Cardiology and ambulatory
diagnostics include echocardiography (ECG) including stress testing,
electroencephalography (EEG) and pulmonary and nuclear medicine.
The Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital Breast Care Center, located
on campus in the Medical Offices, offers a full range of breast care
services including screening and diagnostic mammograms, interventional
breast procedures, breast ultrasound and Bone Densitometry.
The hospital also houses a chapel and a cafeteria complete with fresh
gourmet options, including wood-fired pizzas, that can be enjoyed in the
dining room or outside in the adjacent Palm Court.
For more information about Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital,
please visit
mymountpleasanthospital.com.
For a Mount Pleasant Hospital Physician Referral, please call
843-402-CARE(2287).
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PLANS
CALL FOR PASSIVE PARK AT LAUREL HILL PLANTATION
Proposed property to be like Palmetto Islands but without water park
(Updated 7-24-11)
Ivy Hall's private
wooded neighbor, Laurel Hill Plantation, is about to be developed into a
passive public park.
The Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission is leasing
Laurel Hill Plantation for walking, running and biking trails on 781
acres, PRC Executive Director Tom O'Rourke told The (Charleston) Post and
Courier recently.
A lease agreement between PRC and plantation
trustee Wachovia/Wells Fargo reportedly was finalized March 31.
Laurel Hill Plantation backs up
directly to Ivy Hall. Currently, the only paved entrance is via a road
off S.C. Highway 41. Plans for any new entrance roads, including the
possibility of one off U.S. Highway 17, haven't been released.
O'Rourke told the Moultrie News that
the park would be like Palmetto Islands County Park off Long Point Road
"but times seven better." He added that there would never be a water
park, ball fields or lighting at the Laurel Hill park.
The public will be heavily involved in
the development of the park's master plan, O'Rourke said.
The Ivy Hall Board will follow this
story closely and keep residents updated.
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