Those of us who have lived in Timberton for five years or longer remember the "building years" when it seemed a new house went up every month.
You could always tell which houses were under construction because they each had a port-a-pottie in front of them.
At one time, a total of 6 potties stood in various parts of Timberton – so many that we thought maybe that should become the mascot of our village.
Former village President Tom Carter always said that he wanted to toast the departing truck when the last port-a-pottie was hauled away. At his suggestion, a group gathered to drink a champagne toast on that day in the summer of 2006.
Thank goodness, the port-a-pottie did not become our mascot! That honor belongs to the bobcat because in 2004 a bobcat lived in the woods between McKenzie and Leighbrook. more
Timberton Village was "born" in 1995 when the RAK Development Company (dba Costa Pacific Homes) filed the "Timberton Supplemental CC&Rs" with Jefferson County in 1995, creating our village as one of the 15 villages in the SBCA. RAK platted Timberton Phase 1 and built the first 7 homes in the mid 1990's.
In 1997, RAK sold its holdings in Timberton to Olympic Resource Management (aka ORM or "Pope"). ORM completed Phase 1 and filed Articles of Incorporation with the County to create the Timberton Village Homeowners Association (TVHA). In 1998, ORM platted Phase 2 and added it to the TVHA, registering it with the County as Amendment 1 to the Timberton CC&Rs.
Timberton Phase 3 was originally planned by ORM to be the start of a separate village called "Creekside", and that name appears on some of the older maps. But ORM realized this would create a problem with drainage from these homes, and a separate agreement would be needed between Timberton and Creekside for the maintenance of the detention ponds that they shared. They did not want to do that because a similar agreement that had been negotiated between Bayview and Teal Lake caused problems for both villages.
So ORM requested agreement from Timberton homeowners in 2001 to add the area they had platted as "Creekside" to Timberton, changing its name to "Timberton Phase 3". Agreement was given by vote at the Annual Meeting in June of 2001 that TVHA be expanded to include Phase 3. This action was registered with the County as Amendment 2 to the Timberton CC&Rs.
Final build-out was accomplished in July 2006, at which time there were 27 homes in Phase 1, 33 in Phase 2, and 19 in Phase 3, for a total of 78. This makes Timberton the second largest village in SBA in number of homes, behind Teal Lake. In terms of acreage, Timberton is the largest village in SBCA.
