Maintenance Activities

Landscape Maintenance

• General Maintenance Schedule (General weeding control, pruning, and cleaning)
  • BellaVista, the new landscape contractor, is now providing landscape services for The Villages. The following pages provide high-level maps and outline the vendor’s various activities for November. The schedule reflects days for mowing, combined mowing/cleaning, cleaning, and detailing. Detailing includes pruning, pulling weeds, and detailing plant material.

• Fertilizer
  • Custom blend fertilizers are arriving within the next two weeks and pre-emergent to be completed alongside it. Four applications to be completed throughout the year. First turf fertilizer application and first pre-emergent applications to be completed on the week of 12/9 – 12/13 throughout the districts and Club properties.

• Fire Fuel Zones
  • The following fire fuel zones remain to be addressed in November
    • 11/12 – Glen Arden and Valle Vista Fire Fuel Areas

• Pest Control
  • Treatment for voles, moles, gophers, and squirrels – Village Olivas, Village Hermosa, and Village Heights – will occur on 11/18.
    • (Rozol Vole Bait, Talpirid, Gopher Coetter Type 2 Bait, Rodent Bait Diphacinone .005% and .01%).
  • Treatment for Voles, Moles, Gophers, and Squirrels – Village Montgomery, Village Del Lago, and Village Sonata – will occur on 11/25
    • (Rozol Vole Bait, Talpirid, Gopher Coetter Type 2 Bait, Rodent Bait Diphacinone .005% and .01%).
  • For Pesticide information on pest control or landscape, please contact Customer Service at (408) 223-4670 or visit the Corporation Yard at 3401 The Villages Fairway Drive. San Jose, CA 95135 or visit the Resident Portal and click on the Pesticides button for pest control or landscape.

• Watering Schedule

Bella Vista and Management has been adjusted/reduced the watering schedule based on the latest weather conditions. 

• Beta Sites/Non-functional turf conversions – The Villages entry along Sonata/Del Lago in progress.

Association Maintenance

If your village is not listed below, there is not a large-scale project occurring within your community. However, Public Works continues to address ongoing standard maintenance and landscape requests within each village.

• Village Glen Arden –The roof replacement project continues to remain on hold due to weather. Management is working with vendor to determine upcoming window which would allow for demo.
• Village Valle Vista – Fire Hardening Project delayed
  • Update: Notices have been posted to all residents about the project which will restart next week. Updated schedule as follows:
    • 9001 – 9008 scheduled on 11/18 – 11/19
    • 9009 – 9016 scheduled on 11/19 – 11/20
    • 9017 – 9024 scheduled on 11/20 – 11/21
    • 9025 – 9033 scheduled on 11/21 – 11/22
    • 9034 – 9041 scheduled on 11/22 – 11/25
    • 9042 – 9047 scheduled on 11/25 – 11/26

See landscape maintenance maps