FAQs 

What is the RMO?  The Cedar Landing 2 - Creek Estates Road Maintenance Organization, Inc. (RMO) was established in 2016 when D.C. Lanier, the developer of our community, stopped maintaining the roads.  Its mission is to collect an annual private road assessment from all property owners and to maintain our 3.3 miles of roads.​

Why do we have to pay for road maintenance?  Unfortunately, Mr. Lanier failed to provide for road maintenance by Surf City, Pender County, or the State of North Carolina and instead deeded the roads to us.  The three jurisdictions have all declined to take on maintaining our roads, leaving us with the responsibility.​

Who does the road maintenance?  Our neighbor Rob Schneider is the man you see on a red tractor grading and crowning the gravel roads, patching the asphalt, clearing drainage ditches, and replacing drainage pipes.  We’re very lucky to have him, so next time you see him out working, please take a minute to thank him. ​

Why do we have speed bumps?  As Cedar Avenue and Creek Drive owners and residents can explain best, impatient locals, vacationers, and beach goers speed through our community as fast as they can, raising clouds of dust, damaging our roadbeds, and threatening children playing, walkers, and pets.  Speed bumps have helped to slow traffic and discourage cut-throughs.​

Why don’t we have more speed bumps?  In the last few years, several members have asked about additional speed bumps on our roads to discourage cut-through traffic, reduce vehicle speed, and increase safety in the neighborhood.  Our answer has always been 'No' because the then-Pender County Fire Marshal wouldn't approve them because emergency services vehicles have to come to a stop before going over speed bumps, which increases response time.​

Amy Burton, the new Fire Marshal, recently gave us permission to install additional speed bumps, provided that they are temporary and in use only in the summer months when cut-through traffic to the beaches is at its worst. ​

Why don’t we have a gate to keep out cut-through traffic?  Some owners have suggested that we close Cedar Avenue with a gate, and this has been given very serious consideration in the past.  The board’s conclusion was that a gate, while effective, would be prohibitively expensive.  First, two gates would be needed and the sites would need to be prepared with concrete foundations, electrical service, surveillance cameras, and an internet connection so that delivery services (USPS, UPS, FedEx), jurisdictions (Pender County Emergency Services, Schools, Sheriff, and Utilities, Surf City Fire and Police) and contractors (construction, handy, lawn care, plumbers, etc.) – as well as residents and guests – could key themselves in. Because the gate and apparatus will be largely open to the elements, these would need to be high quality and rugged and would require maintenance and periodic replacement of the gate arms should someone decide to break through.  In other words, this is not something we can contemplate on a current budget of ~$25,000 a year.