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Our Timberwood is a record of what it takes to live here, kept by the people who live here. One neighbor runs it on his own time, and it is free to read.

What this is

One neighbor who lives in Timberwood runs this, on his own time. That is the whole operation. It is free to read, there are no ads, and no company pays to appear on it. The city has no hand in it. Who runs this has the rest.

It is still being built. Pages get added when a question comes up and somebody chases the answer down. Some are marked needs a neighbor because no public record settles them. Parts of it will be wrong, and parts of it are missing.

What it turns into depends on what neighbors say about it. Requests, corrections and objections all go the same way: the box at the bottom of every Record page, or the contact form. If a page here is wrong, say so. If the site should cover something and does not, say that. If you think the whole idea is a bad one, that is worth hearing too.

Why it exists

The same questions come up in the neighborhood Facebook group a few times a year. Does a fence need a permit? Who does roofs around here? What day does the trash come? People answer, the thread scrolls out of sight within a week, and a few months later somebody asks again.

On this site, an answer becomes a page. The page stays up, and it shows the date it was last checked.

What is on it

The Record holds the facts: permits, deed restrictions, utilities, schools, flooding and taxes. Every page lists where its information came from, and you can read all of it without an account.

Services is the contractor list. Each entry gives the job, roughly when it happened, roughly what it cost, and whether the neighbor would use that company again. When two people have hired the same company, both entries sit on that company's page.

Notices covers the things that only matter for a short time: garage sales, lost pets, word that the water is off. Each notice comes down after a set number of days and moves into an archive you can search.

How it grows

You do not need an account to read anything here. You do need one to add something, so that what gets added comes from someone who lives in the neighborhood.

Some pages are marked needs a neighbor. Those are the questions no public record answers, where the only source is someone who lives on the street. They stay open until a neighbor fills them in.

See also

• House rules, including the three subjects that do not belong here
• About Timberwood, the basics of the neighborhood
• How Services works