Condo Bylaw interpretation

[tgferg67]

Hi,
I am just curious how this parking Bylaw would be interpreted.

Here is more of the bylaw for context...There is no driveway - just the 2 car garage and a center area. 16 condos and 8 parking spots in the center area.

D) Co-owners must first utilize their garage for housing their vehicle(s). Parking of additional vehicles in the general parking area may require prior written permission from the Board of Directors

 

[deadlyapp]

Where else would it be parked? Do you have a driveway? Or is the only other parking visitor parking?

I would interpret it to mean that you must park in the garage if available. It's too muddy and ambiguous to stand up if say you filled your garage with stuff and parked somewhere else.

I assume that the way they actually meant it is that you must keep your garage empty and park both your vehicles in it first.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Where else would it be parked? Do you have a driveway? Or is the only other parking visitor parking?

I would interpret it to mean that you must park in the garage if available. It's too muddy and ambiguous to stand up if say you filled your garage with stuff and parked somewhere else.

I disagree. It doesn't say "if available" and it doesn't mention exceptions for junk and clutter. I would interpret it to mean that if you have two cars they must be parked in the garage and you can only utilize other spaces if you have more than two vehicles.

 

[Genx87]

I disagree. It doesn't say "if available" and it doesn't mention exceptions for junk and clutter. I would interpret it to mean that if you have two cars they must be parked in the garage and you can only utilize other spaces if you have more than two vehicles.

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[tgferg67]

I will use these results however they fall for the next board meeting

 

[dasherHampton]

Doesn't seem overly complicated.

 

[Rifter]

I disagree. It doesn't say "if available" and it doesn't mention exceptions for junk and clutter. I would interpret it to mean that if you have two cars they must be parked in the garage and you can only utilize other spaces if you have more than two vehicles.

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[dainthomas]

Get a truck and lift it enough that it won't fit in the garage. Problem solved.

 

[ultimatebob]

To be honest, most condo associations don't seem to enforce parking all that strongly as long as there are free spaces available. I had three cars at a condo with a single garage for YEARS, and nobody gave a damn about it unless it just snowed and the spots weren't plowed yet.

Besides, the Mini Cooper that I had at the time looked cool and kinda classed up the joint 🙂

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Besides, the Mini Cooper that I had at the time looked cool and kinda classed up the joint 🙂

Congratulations on coming up with a sentence that has never been used before in the entirety of human history.

 

[zzuupp]

I disagree. It doesn't say "if available" and it doesn't mention exceptions for junk and clutter. I would interpret it to mean that if you have two cars they must be parked in the garage and you can only utilize other spaces if you have more than two vehicles.

& "general parking area may require prior written permission" You might have to get a pass otherwise.

In other words, it's time to clean your two door garage.

 

[ElFenix]

ooooooo i worked on this case once. guy wouldn't park his truck in his garage (claims to have bought a truck too big for his garage) so parked it on association property in front of his garage (basically the "street" of the townhouse project).

bayou flooded and took his whole damn townhouse away!

 

[gorcorps]

I must be tired... I read the title as "Connor Bylaw Intereception" and expected to see some amazing interception from some unknown college kid named Connor Bylaw

 

[Midwayman]

This, and variants of it are intended to keep people from filling their garage with crap and then abusing the shared resource of guest parking. I've lived places that had this rule and never enforced it. It was basically impossible to have anyone over as absolutely everyone was using the garage for storage and parking on the street/guest parking.

 

[dasherHampton]

I would have serious reservations about buying a condo in a 16 unit development with no driveways and only 8 community parking spots, unless it was very near ample street parking.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My HOA had to deal with my next door neighbor--a living nightmare. The neighbor had been working at a new car dealership and would deliberately low-ball buyers on their trade-in's. She would bring them home and parked four in her driveway and two, sometimes three, on the street in front of her home. They would just sit there for months at a time. The HOA had enough after repeatedly asking her to remove the vehicles from the street. BTW, she used her two-car garage to store appliances from a failed restaurant business--roaches galore.

Finally, the case was taken to the county sheriff's department. There is this thing in my county called the 'quality of life' which is designed to keep a-holes from turning otherwise nice looking areas into run down commercial districts. When the deputy came out to serve papers I took the liberty of saying hello to him and he laughed at this not being the first time he had served papers to this person. The the HOA tried to enforce a condition in which if a vehicle is in your driveway as a regular registered vehicle at your home, this can only be when the garage bays are already full of vehicles. I can understand that.

Well, this neighbor moved out and in with her brother in the adjacent county. She has taken her vehicles but still registers them at the next door address for some odd reason. Also, this neighbor lost her license after she got two DUI's in two years. As such, her move from selling cars to selling homes is now impacted by her way of life. She hasn't lived next door for a decade and what a POS property it has become over the years.