Landscaping on the Corner of Via Vantebria and Garden View Rd

Many homeowners are concerned about the landscaping (or rather lack thereof) on the corner of Via Cantebria and Garden View Rd. Why is it so uneven, with such abrupt boundaries?

Parking strips (the narrow strips of land between the sidewalk and the road) belong to the city but must be maintained by the homes bordering on them, thus the responsibility to landscape and maintain the corner of Via Cantebria and Garden View Rd. rests with the two non-Mendocino homes on the corner. The even narrower strips between the fence and the sidewalk are the property and responsibility of those homes.

The city approved the construction of the two homes on the condition that they create and maintain the outer perimeter landscaping to the city standards but has not been enforcing its own rules; and the non-Mendocino homes have not done anything with the landscaping. Mendocino HOA does its best to maintain the parking strips up to the boundary of its responsibility - hence the abrupt change in appearance.

It's unfortunate that the two non-Mendocino homes subtract from the neighborhood appeal while benefiting form the proximity to Mendocino. One of the homes has recently done some landscaping but it still falls short of the responsibility of the Garden View HOA which those two homes comprise.