The Baywood Homeowners' Association (BHA) is neither a developer of the Baywood property nor a manager of the facilities and services made available to residents of the Baywood community. 

 

Rather, the BHA represents the interests of homeowners in Baywood. The About Us page on this site describes our purpose as an organization of homeowners in the Baywood community.

 

Please visit the website of Signature Homes to learn more about our community and the possibilities of home ownership in Baywood and/or to request information about the community.

Yes. First try the MapQuest view of our world, which will open centered on the Signature Homes sales office. Then see also the answers below in the section "Maps and Phases of Baywood."

In addition to the pool (in-season), the Community Center contains

The Children's Playground is located directly in front of the Center.

Yes. Baywood residents can avail themselves of amenities provided at the Tunnell Company's sister PotNets communities located farther down Long Neck Road. Here's what is available.

 

	Baywood	Bayside	Coveside	Creekside	Dockside	Lakeside	Seaside
Bait & Tackle Store		X					X
Baseball Field		X
Basketball Court		X
Boat Ramps		X	X	X	X		X
Boat Slips		X	X		X		X
Bocce Courts	X
Community Center	X	X				X
Conservation Areas				X
Crabbing and Fishing Piers		X	X	X	X		X
Dog Park	X
Golf Course	X
Nature Trails				X
Playgrounds	X	X					X
Private Bay Beaches		X					X
Restaurant	X	X					X
Sailing, Waterskiing, Windsurfing		X					X
Shuffleboard		X
Swimming Pool	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Tennis Courts		X		X
Tiki Hut							X

 

The dog park opened in October, 2010. It is located on Crooked Stick Way, immediately to your right after turning off Back Nine Way onto Pivot Way, and then onto Crooked Stick Way. It is open from dawn until dusk.

 

Rules and Regulations are as follows (these are clearly posted at the entrance to the dog park).

 

Always dial 911 in the case of an emergency.

 

For fire and ambulance, Baywood Security monitors local fire and ambulance frequencies and will assist vehicles in quickly locating Baywood addresses. Baywood Security vehicles also carry emergency defibrilators.

 

For police (as well as fire and ambulance), it is best to additionally contact Baywood Security at 945-1029 only after calling 911 so that responses can be better coordinated.

Baywood Security Hours of Operation	How It Works
Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 4:00 pm	During these hours, you will reach the Security team directly.  Whoever answers the phone will have a working knowledge of the Baywood community and will respond to your call quickly and efficiently.
Saturday, Sunday, Holidays, and After Normal Hours	When calling during the weekend, on holidays or between the hours of 4:00 pm and 8:30 am, your call will be taken by an Answering Service.    The person taking your call has no knowledge of the Baywood Community and will not be familiar with the location of your home.  They will not know where the golf course is nor will they know the phase number in which you live.  They are contracted to take your message and promptly page a Baywood Security Officer who is on duty. The most expeditious way of getting a Security Officer to respond to your call is to provide the following information to the Answering Service: Your name Your address Identify yourself as a resident of Baywood Your phone number A brief description of your issue Tell the answering service whether or not you want the Security Officer to acknowledge your call before arriving at your residence The Answering Service answers calls for more than one company.  Therefore, when you call, from time to time you may get a message indicating that all operators are busy.  You will be asked to either hold on for the next available operator or leave a message.  It is highly recommended that you hold for an operator.  Your issue will be addressed faster as it may take longer for the operator to have time to retrieve a message.
Contact Information	By Phone:     302-945-1029 By eMail:      security@potnets.com

 

Baywood Security has the primary responsibility for all issues involving the safety and security of our residents.  Local authorities coordinate all responses to 911 calls with Baywood security, enabling emergency vehicles to quickly locate residences in Baywood.

Baywood's security works together with our sister PotNets communities to patrol the community several times each day.  A dedicated security vehicle is on the Baywood premises from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. every night.  An unmarked patrol vehicle is also assigned to Baywood (at unpublished times).

No matter where your vehicle is located, whether within the community, at the grocery store, at the outlets, or travelling to visit friends and relatives, you will always present some level of opportunity for a would-be thief to attempt a vehicle break-in. Once vehicle access is gained, any number of criminal activities becomes possible, from a simple grab and snatch of a wallet or GPS device, to theft of the vehicle itself and possibly presonal attack and injury.

 

Several car break-ins were reported in Baywood during 2010 and, in response, State Police visited the BHA membership in September, 2010, to discuss overall neighborhood security issues, including vehicle theft. We have available a list of 50 tips provided to us by the State Police to help you reduce your chances of being the victim of a vehicle breakin or theft.

No.  The information you supply to the BHA in your Profile is used mainly to produce the annual, printed Resident Directory available only to BHA members and to residents via BHA Phase Representatives.  The information contained therein is primarily "name, phone, address, and email."

 

Your information is then maintained on the website by the Web Committee (which manages the website and resolves login and access issues), the BHA Membership and Outreach Chairs (who update BHA membership status), and the BHA Secretary (who provides timely communications to the membership). Other BHA officers, including the Phase Representatives, also have access to the database.

 

Please see our full statement on access to membership and resident information on the Policies page.

This setting applies only to BHA members and indicates how they wish to receive their copy of the Blue Heron newsletter.

 

Setting this to Baywood Delivery indicates that you wish a hard copy of the newsletter delivered to your Baywood residence. Setting this to US Mail indicates that you wish the newsletter mailed to your home address (only if it is outside Baywood).  Only one copy will be delivered or mailed to an address.

 

We'd hope that many will now opt to set this to (the default setting of) Web, which indicates that you'll read the newsletter on-line at the website and/or download it to your own computer for printing. Printing and delivering fewer copies of the Blue Heron saves the BHA both duplicating costs and the efforts of many volunteers who deliver the newsletter throughout the Baywood community.

 

No matter what your setting, members will receive an email alert when a new issue of the Blue Heron is released.  This alert will also be clearly posted on the home page of this website.

The Members pages of the website are restricted to members of the BHA. 

 

BHA membership costs $12 per calendar year through April 15th of the following year (for two adults residing at the same address). Membership fees not only support the overall operation of the website, but allow upgraded access to the restricted Members pages of the website.  Membership fees also underwrite reduced admission costs at some BHA sponsored events, provide the ability to vote in the annual BHA elections, and support the ongoing operation of the organization.

 

To join the BHA, you can drop off a check made out to the "BHA" for $12 to one of the BHA Membership Committee, Dianne Keough (24956 Crooked Stick Way) and Geri Airey (32347 Apron Way). All dues payments received are acknowledged via an email confimration.

 

To check your membership status, please visit the Profile page, then scroll down to the item named "Member Until." For those paid for the 2013 calendar year, the entry should read "4/15/2014."

Residents may apply at the clubhouse for a resident card.  Using it provides a 15% discount every day of the week on all items purchased (including alcohol), except for certain holidays (New Year's, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

Check out the on-line calendar at the clubhouse. This lists happenings including music, concerts, and special menu offerings that are available seasonally.  Also check this calendar for golf outings at Baywood Greens.

Since 2012, entry to the Community Center has been controlled by card-key access to the front door.

 

Residents can apply for a Resident identification card at the Baywood Greens Clubhouse/Restaurant.  In addition to providing discounts at the restaurant (see elsewhere on the FAQ), the card allows access to Community Center.

Yes...quite a few.  These activites are listed under the Activites section on this web site.  Also, upcoming events are listed in the Save the Date section on the home page. Pot Luck Dinners happen usually the first Thursday of most months beginning at 6:00 PM.  The 2011 BHA Event Calendar indicating all activies is posted at the end of the Save the Date section, plus the current month and next month calendar of activities is posted on the Community Center bulletin board.

Yes.  The following is the list of regulations: 

Lifeguards have the authority to apply further restrictions, if necessary, to ensure safety.

The Community Center is locked 24 hours a day and can only be accessed by an activated Baywood Resident Card. Your activated card will allow you access to the community center seven days a week from 5:30 am – 10:00pm.   If you have not already done so, drop by  the clubhouse restaurant to have the community center lock credentials added to your resident card. If for any reason you need access to the facility during the off hours, please alert Baywood Security.

The pool usually opens only for Memorial Day weekend and the first weekend of June, before beginning daily operation from the second weekend of June to Labor Day. Daily pool operation has been 10 AM to 6 PM five days of the week, and Noon to 8 PM on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Golf cars are a great way of getting around at Baywood.  When used properly, they are safe, convenient, fun, and good for the environment.   Please respect these rules and guidelines as they will enhance your peaceful enjoyment of Baywood.

Please make sure these rules and guidelines are followed to ensure that your peaceful enjoyment of Baywood is not disrupted.  We all have a role to play here, please carry out yours.

We've prepared some tips for you based on information that we've collected both from the internet and from sources here at Baywood.

Baywood Greens is an upscale, daily-fee public course that charges greens fees that can reach $129 on weekends in the peak season.  Residents generally enjoy a 25 percent or more discount off the rack rate fees, and can book tee times up to one year in advance. Rates apply for residents and their guests alike.

 

  

From time to time, Baywood Greens may make special resident rate promotions available and these will be advertised on the home page of this website whenever we learn of them.

Yes. The course does close for short periods for aeration and maintenance, usually around the second week of March and second week of November.

 

Other than that, the course generally is open every day of the year (weather permitting in winter, of course), but it does occasionally host area tournament groups and outings that will effectively close the course for the day.

 

For all scheduling concerns, please call the Pro Shop at (302) 947-9800, or toll free (888) 844-2254.

Residents are allowed unlimited use of the practice facilities at any time, which includes access to the driving range, chipping area, and putting greens. Practice balls (having limited flight characteristics) are available on the range, either in the bays or via buckets filled at the ball dispenser at the rear of Slicer's. (If no practice balls are available, ask either the outside golf attendants for balls, or ask inside Slicer's or the Pro Shop for tokens that can be used with the ball dispensing machine at the rear of Slicer's.)

 

  

If you take your golf cart to the practice areas, enter from the Clubhouse side of the range by traveling along the back of the Clubhouse, or enter from the Pro Shop parking area, driving to the left of the Pro Shop. Please park so as not to block regular golf course traffic in and around the Pro Shop.

 

If you walk or take a vehicle to the Pro Shop parking lot, please be sure to identify yourself as a resident with the outside attendants upon your arrival before entering the practice area.

Many of the Baywood residents do enjoy walking, driving your golf cart and riding bicycles on the golf course cart paths.  We want you to enjoy the beauty of Baywood and we would like to give you some general guidelines of when and when not to be on the course.  These rules are in place mostly to protect you and also to protect the golf course.  They are as follows:

• If you are going out on the course, please do not travel on any golf hole where there are customers playing golf.  We do not want anyone to get hit by a golf ball. The best time to go out is first thing in the morning so that you stay well ahead of the golfers. Golf starts at 6:30am normally on hole #1 and 8:00am on hole #10.  The course will be completely full by 10:30.  If you want to walk/ride the cart paths on the front nine, please do so no later then 6:15am.  If you choose to walk/ride the back nine, please do so by 7:30am.
• In the evening, our last group usually goes off the front nine by 5:30pm.  We suggest that if you choose to walk/ride the front nine in the evening, please do so after 7:00pm.  The back nine will have golfers on every hole until dusk.  So we ask that you stay off the back in the evenings.
• During the early morning hours and in the evenings, the course superintendent may be running an irrigation program.  Sprinklers come up randomly and may hit you. If you see a sprinkler on nearby, please know that it may go down and another will come up.  It would be best to avoid any area being watered for your protection.
• On occasion, we have tournaments that start late morning.  In those situations, you may walk/ride the course before the tournament begins and/or after it ends.  Please call the golf shop.
• If you are unsure of the rules or have a question about players on the course, please call the pro shop and they can instruct you where you can access the golf course.(302-947-9800)
• If you find yourself in a position where you have caught up to players or players have caught up to you, please proceed carefully to the first exit point, exit points are on holes #1, #2 , #4, #9, #11, #13, #14, #15, #17 and #18.
• Our busy season is April – mid November.  Outside of this date range, there will be fewer players on the course and more opportunities for you to travel the paths, again, please phone the pro shop.
• We ask that you please do not walk your pets on the golf course, pet urine will kill grass, we would prefer that you walk your pets in one of the many common areas in the residential neighborhood.
• No skateboards allowed on the course at any time.
• No traffic allowed on the course after dark.  This is for your safety and also we want to protect the grass/landscaping from any damage should your cart leave the path.  Also, irrigation will be running and you will not see it and you may be hit by high pressure water. If we see golf carts on the paths after dark, we will notify security.
• If you see any suspicious activity or someone walking/riding the course during golfing hours, please call the golf shop.  If it is after hours, please call security 302-945-1029. 
• If any residents or guests of residents are found to be on the course where there are golfers playing, you will be asked to exit the golf course by a member of the pro shop staff or by a member of the golf course maintenance staff.

 

Yes. We have a bare bones street map of the development. Each phase has a color different from its neighboring phase; look for the circled numbers to identify your phase number. Alternatively, you might prefer a MapQuest view of Baywood (this map centered on the Signature Homes sales office).

 

There are also detailed phase maps with lot numbers (available, courtesy of Signature Homes) for:

The list by streets is:

See also our FAQ entry above for "Are there maps of Baywood."

Unless you're a golfer, you probably don't know much about the terms associated with the game of golf that have become the names of the streets in Baywood (which are officially Ways and Dells).

 

A resident has carefully researched this question and has prepared a document with a short comment on each of the 21 streets in Baywood on which residents actually live. Omitted from the list are Birdie, Pitch, Surlyn, and Waggle Ways (which provide access to the garages of townhomes in Phase 4) and Sole Way (which provides access to the garages of townhome units in Phase 5).

Any resident can file a complaint about property or neighborhood issues by filling out a form and sending it to Tunnell Companies, 34026 Anna's Way Suite 5, Long Neck, DE  19966.

Trash collection is every Tuesday. Please position your trash bin at the end of your driveway on the pavers between the sidewalk and street, so that it opens towards the street (as indicated on the top of the bin). Please do not place the trash bin on the grass. In the case of Monday (or Tuesday) holidays, trash collection will be delayed one day.

 

The complete 2013 Blue Hen collection schedule is now available, and includes collection dates and guidelines for both trash and recycling.

Yes. Blue Hen collects recyclables every other week on Tuesdays (same day as regular trash collection, just every other week). Notification of this change was mailed to all residents in December, 2010, along with rate information and schedule. Blue and yellow recycling containers were delivered to all Baywood residences a few days later.

 

The complete 2012 Blue Hen collection schedule is now available, and includes collection dates and guidelines for both trash and recylcing.

 

As with regular trash collection, face recycling containers to open towards the street and position them at least three feet away from the regular trash container. Do not place recycling containers on grass.

 

Acceptable materials for recylcing include these:

Blue Hen requests that recyclable items be bagged. Although not an absolute requirement, bagging materials makes pickup less likely to miss items that could escape on a windy day.

Blue Hen comes through the neighborhood either every Thursday or Friday to pick up yard waste. Place your clippings and waste in bags at the tree closest to your house where there are no planted grasses for pickup. If you have bulkier waste such as tree branches, cut them into 3 foot sections and tie them in small bundles.