This website contains current information about Carmel Views including the agendas and minutes of Board meetings, project status reports, the Association’s governing documents (CC&R’s/Bylaws), and notices of upcoming events. We intend to update the website frequently as new information becomes available. Questions and suggestions are welcomed at CVCABoard@gmail.com.
PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP
CARMEL VIEWS KEEP ITS FIREWISE STATUS
Over the past year, the Carmel Views Firewise Program has continued to help improve wildfire safety in our community and qualified most (if not all) property owners for discounts on their homeowner’s insurance.
It is now time for the annual renewal of Carmel Views status as a Nationally-recognized Firewise Community. Renewal is required for us to maintain the insurance discounts.
Summary information about how much community members have invested — in time and money — into hardening their homes and managing fuels on their properties is a critical element of the renewal application. To compile that information, we need to hear from everyone in the community.
Please do YOUR part by filling out this HOMEOWNER SURVEY and sending it to Liz Chornesky, the Carmel Views Firewise lead at CarmelViewsFirewise@gmail.com. Your information will be kept confidential; No information about individual homes is reported in the annual renewal application.
The deadline for submitting your survey is November 7, 2025. Information submitted after that date cannot be used.
Thank you!
[Should you prefer to submit a paper copy of your survey, please contact Liz at CarmelViewsFirewise@gmail.com to arrange a handoff.]
CHIPPER DAYS
The Cypress Fire Protection District has announced its chipper program for 2025. The dates for the program are:
- January 6 – 17, 2025
- March 3 – 14, 2025
- May 5 – 16, 2025
- December 1 – 12, 2025
See the Cypress Fire Protection District website for more information.
Last year Cypress Fire issued more stringent requirements for chipper-day pickup piles. Piles that do not comply with these rules will not be picked up. Here are the requirements.
Chipper Program Requirements
Please call Shayon Ascarie at 831-594-1427 or Frank Espinoza at 831-747-7012 if you think that Cypress Fire’s contractor worked in Carmel Views but missed a pile of branches. Shayon is a Fire Captain and Frank is a Battalion Chief at the Cypress Fire Protection District. Please call promptly while the contractor is still in the area.
Please do not put out anything to be chipped more than two weeks before the start of the next chipper program. Piles of cuttings left next to the road for long periods of time are unsightly, and they could become a fire hazard as they dry out.
The chipper contractor will not accept genista. Please put it in your green yard waste container. Also, the chipper contractor will not accept brush that is too small to be fed safely into a chipper. Here are several examples of brush that the chipper contractor refused to pick up. Please put brush this small in your green yard waste container.
