Ladera Ranch is one of the most connected places I have ever lived, and one of the hardest places to get a straight answer.
Right now, if you want to know what is happening here, you check a website that rarely changes, or you join nine different Facebook groups and hope somebody posts. If you want a say in a decision that affects your dues, you get three minutes at a board meeting once a month, and usually no reply.
I joined the board as a volunteer because I think we can do better than that. Not because anyone is doing anything wrong, but because a community of thousands of people deserves more than a bulletin board and a stopwatch.
So I built The Bubble.
The name works two ways. We live in a bubble, in the good sense: tight knit, walkable, everybody's kid on everybody's lawn. And a bubble is the one thing you can see straight through. That is the part I care about. If our fees are going up, we should know why. If something big is being decided, we should hear about it before it is decided, not after.
The Bubble is independent and resident led. It is not the HOA, and it does not speak for the HOA. Official services are linked to the people who actually run them. What it adds is the part we have been missing: everything in one place, and a way to talk back.
Signed: Colleen, a neighbor