Whether you just unpacked or have been here since the first phase, welcome. Olympic Ridge is 144 homes on a bluff in Belfair, with the Olympic Mountains out front, Lynch Cove below, and Hood Canal minutes away.
What We’re About
These are the things this neighborhood runs on. None of them are rules you have to look up — they are just how we treat each other and the place we share.
- We look out for each other. A neighbor’s report about traffic on the access road is why that road has bollards today.
- We drive like kids live here. The community speed limit is 25 mph, and slower near the bus stop.
- We keep a lane open. One entire side of every street is a fire lane and stays clear so fire trucks, ambulances, and snow plows can get through.
- We share the view. Nobody’s shed should cost a neighbor their mountains, which is why exterior projects go through architectural review first.
- We clean up after ourselves. Leash on when you’re off your own property, bag in hand, and trash cans screened from the street.
The County Doesn’t Plow This Hill. We Do.
This is the part most residents never hear, and it explains almost everything about how the HOA works.
Olympic Ridge was developed and approved as a self-sufficient community. As a condition of that approval, Mason County does not maintain our roads, sidewalks, streetlights, or related infrastructure — the Association does. That responsibility cannot be handed back to the county. It is permanent, and it is why the Association keeps a reserve study that models 30 years of replacement costs.
Straight talk about the money
Reserves are behind where the reserve study says they should be. Rather than reach for a dues increase first, the Board moved $40,000 out of a non-interest-bearing checking account and into a certificate of deposit so that money earns interest instead of losing value to inflation. That interest is not profit paid to anyone — it offsets Association expenses.
No dues increase is proposed. A raise is the last resort, and any change would be presented with supporting figures before it was considered. The full picture is in the meeting minutes .
Five Neighbors, Elected
Your Board is five owners who live here. None of them are paid.
Between meetings they review contracts and vendor performance, follow up on architectural requests, chase down delinquent accounts, and walk the neighborhood looking for dead trees, cracked sidewalks, and dark corners. Day-to-day management is handled by J&M Management.
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