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Our Timberwood is a record of what it takes to live here and it is kept by the people who live here. It is free to read.

What this is

Neighbors run this on their own time and 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 and corrections and objections all go the same way. Use 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 then 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 and 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 somebody last checked it.

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 and roughly when it happened and roughly what it cost, and it says whether the neighbor would use that company again. When two people have hired the same company then 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.

The map draws every lot in the neighborhood and a quarter mile around it. Color it by section, by the year the house went up, by flood zone or by who owns it, and tap any lot to see what the county has on record for it.

The calendar carries city council meetings, school holidays and the statutory deadlines, read straight from the city and the school district.

Questions is not a fourth place to read so much as how the Record grows: neighbors ask what the site does not answer yet, and the ones with the most votes get researched first.

How it grows

You do not need an account to read anything here. You do need one to add something, so that whatever gets added comes from somebody 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.