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The Bay Colony neighborhood
association enforces covenants
By Brad Hundt
Staff Writer
After being paralyzed in a truck ac
cident six years ago, Charles Youngb
lood thought his legal battles had just
recently subsided.
However, Youngblood and his wife
Doris are now locking horns with
their neighbors in the upscale Bay
Colony subdivision just north of
Gumming.
According to the couple, leaders of
the Bay Colony Community Associa
tion have harassed them over a swim
ming pool, jacuzzi, fence and convert
ed garage area Youngblood needs for
therapy - even asking the Youngb
loods to remove them and resubmit
their plans for the Association’s
approval.
Because of this, the Youngbloods
have asked lawyers with Liberty Mu
tual Insurance to intervene in the
matter.
“They want me to tear this down,
and I’m not going to do it,” Ms.
Youngblood said. “Nobody told me
they had these rules. No one gave me
a copy of these rules. I’m not going to
do this to satisfy them.”
Wonder truck with
nearly nine lives
By Brad Hundt
Staff Writer
Legend has it that cats have nine
lives.
But Forsyth County resident Allen
Cronan is beginning to believe his
1988 Dodge Ram pick-up truck has
nine lives as well. Especially after it
sank to the bottom of Lake Allatoona -
but is still purring like a kitten after a
few minor adjustments.
“I swear I ain't seen nothing like it,"
Cronan said. "I was totally shocked
when the truck was running the way it
was."
Cronan’s adventure began late May
22, when he was hooking his boat up to
the back of the truck after participat
ing in a day-long fishing tournament.
The truck popped out of gear. The
weight of the boat caused the truck to
go backwards. Straight into the lake.
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“They want them to tear
down a room and rebuild it
- a room designed so a
quadrepeiegic can work
out and regain his ability to
move? C’mon,” said Mar
tin Findley, the Youngb
loods’ attorney.
A letter sent to the Youngbloods
May 7 by the Bay Colony Community
Association, warned the couple about
their “failure to conform” to Architec
tual Control and Protective Covenant
codes in the community’s Covenants,
Conditions and Restrictions. The let
ter also described as their “prime
concerns” the addition of “another
room” to the residence, addition of an
in-ground swimming pool, and the
placement of the fence around the
pool and jacuzzi.
The Youngbloods say they weren’t
told about the community’s covenants
and codes when they bought the
house through Pioneer Realty in De
It sank 15 feet to the bottom and
stayed there for an hour-and-a-half.
“That was a sad sight I could’ve
cried,” Cronan said.
As he sat on a guardrail near the
lake waiting for a tow truck, Cronan’s
hopes began to buoy, however, when
he noticed the truck’s inside and rear
blinking lights were still on. He said
he knew then the truck “couldn’t have
been damaged that bad.”
And to his surprise, it wasn’t All
Cronan needed to replace was a com
puter module, he said. Sure, the fuel
injectors needed cleaning and the up
holstery is still a little musty smelling,
but the truck runs “as if nothing had
happened to it” Cronan explained.
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water damage is an almost unheard of
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cember. And if they were, Ms.
Youngblood says she would’ve told
them to “stick them in their ear” and
would never have bought the house
They also say the community asso
ciation waited until construction on
the projects was complete before they
said anything.
A 1 Posada, president of the Bay Col
ony Community Association, declined
to comment on the Youngbloods’
situation.
Charles Youngblood was paralyzed
from the neck down in July, 1984 in a
North Carolina truck accident He
needs the specially-outfitted room so
he can go to the bathroom and take
showers. It also needs to be accessible
for fire or emergency personnel if the
need arises, Mrs. Youngblood said.
The couple received a permit from
the county to convert the garage to a
bedroom for Youngblood. A friend of
the couple who happens to be an ar
chitect designed the room, and
friends who were builders construct
ed the room.
Now, the Youngbloods say, the
Homeowners Association wants them
to tear down the roughly $30,000
room, and resubmit their plans to the
staff photo - By Brad Hundt
Allen Cronan with his mysterious pickup
dashboard in a car, it’s usually de
clared a total loss, he said, because
the engine is usually flooded and oth
er parts are severely damaged.
Cronan said his insurance company
issued him a full payment for the loss
board for their approval.
“They want them to tear down a
room and rebuild it - a room designed
so a quadrepeiegic can work out and
regain his ability to move? C’mon,”
said Martin Findley, the Youngb
loods’ attorney.
Findley acknowledged the tall
fence built around the couple’s pool
and jacuzzi might be a violation of the
Associations' covenants and restric
tions. It currently sits on the builders
line adjacent to the house. Mrs.
Youngblood maintains she put the
tall fence in place to prevent neigh
borhood children from falling into the
couple’s pool.
Ironically, Findley lived in the
house before the couple bought it and
served on the Board of Directors of
the Bay Colony Community Associa
tion. He maintains the Youngbloods’
are victims of "selective enforce
ment” of the community’s codes and
restrictions.
The couple received a substantial
financial settlement from the truck
ing company following Youngblood’s
accident They said, though, they’re
eager to stay out of the courtroom with
this battle. Mrs. Youngblood also said
of the truck after it took the plunge.
But even the radio still works fine in
the truck.
"It's quite a truck,” Cronan said. “I
seem to be getting better gas mileage
since it sunk.”
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Alleged attack investigated
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Investigations
Department is looking into the al
leged battery' of an 18-year old Cum
ming man by 87-year-old man.
Paris Bennett of Cumming was re
ported by witness Mary Ann Burk
halter to have hit Thomas Krizka in
the head with a stick Wednesday,
sending him to North Fulton Region
al Hospital with head injuries.
According to the police report
Krizka, a tenant of Bennett’s in his
trailer park, was talking on the pay
phone outside of Bennett’s Store.
Bennett asked Krizka to get off the
phone and was refused.
Bennett went back into the store.
When he came out he hit Krizka in the
head, above his right ear, causing a
four to five inch cut, reported Cpl.
Rod Johnson.
Burkhalter reported the incident
was witnessed by Bennett’s son, Coun
ty Commissioner Michael Bennett,
and a woman at the store.
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“We have been in court for the last
six years.” Youngblood said. “We
want to be left alone.”
“As far as I know a pay
phone is open to the pub
lic,’’ he said.
Krizka is in North Fulton Regional
Hospital in the progressive care unit
in satisfactory condition.
"My speech has been drastically im
paired. there is no feeling in my left
arm or hand, my eye sight has gotten
worse and I have a hemorrhage in my
brain." said Krizka.
He had been on the public phone at
the store almost an hour when Ben
nett approached him. said Krizka.
“As far as I know a pay phone is
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