Childeren not allowed to play

This is a board issue not a management office one. I can see their point on not allowing the tri cycles on the Tennis Courts. That can cause damage to the surface. I believe bicycles should be on concrete driveways, sidewalks, or streets only. Anything else isn't designed for such. It would be like someone coming in with roller blades and rolling around on your wood floors.

My question is it they can't play period or just not use the tri cycles in common areas? Big difference.

The property manager (PM) usually is directed by the Board of Directors to enforce the rules of your HOA. So, before you bring your issue up at a board meeting, or write a letter to your Board, read your documents. There may be something in your CC&Rs or in your Rules & Regulations. In other words, we need additional info.

What do your rules say about bikes, skateboards or similar wheeled devices? Are they permitted anywhere in your exterior "common areas"? Does it matter if they're used by kids or adults? In our 200+ condo complex, none are allowed anywhere in the interior or exterior common areas.

Is your "Recreation Room" actually a fitness center with weights and other equipment? If not, what is in this room? In our Fitness Center, no children under 14 are allowed due to the dangers that the weights and other equipment can pose

Is it correct that your balcony is your own "exclusive use" common area? This means that only you can use it. But it also means that the HOA can make rules about them. Are there any written rules about your balconies that would forbid wheeled vehicles/toys on them? We have no such rules but 95% of our balconies and decks are pretty small. In addition, few children live here.

And Melissa's question is a good one: may they not play (vs ride wheeled toys) at all in the common areas, e.g., on the pool decks or in the tennis courts? What are the tennis court rules about its use?

I agree with you, Art, but if the rules say no wheeled devices, there's no discrimination against children or families with children.

I've looked up the materials about young kids in fully equipped gyms and the HOA may define that as dangerous and can keep them out.

This is why I'd like to see the wording of Jackie's docs

DannyF Cal: as mentioned above by Melissa, lay-cold or polymer type etc tennis courts are vulnerable & pricey to repair ( specifically warm weather gouges by pedals & scuffing from the material on the wheels ).

Child-exclusions from fitness areas reflect that broken bones or worse may occur and may trigger denial of insurance coverage after some loss or injury. Using such machinery with a youngster in the room would be worrying for me.

The original post said the children are not allowed to use tricycles anywhere outside the unit. In my view that's unreasonable and suggests that the strictness of the rule has to do with the preference of some owners not to see or hear kids playing. Kids ride tricycles on sidewalks all over America. If the tennis courts aren't a good place for this activity the Board has to allow it somewhere else.

Art,

Although I'm inclined to agree with you, there are local statutes that prohibit bicycles on sidewalks. Those that do, typically require that the speed of the bicycle is slowed to that of an ordinary walk when pedestrians are present. They also require that the bicyclist yield to pedestrians.

Granted, those laws aren't normally enforced. However, they do exist.

Therefore, it might not be considered unreasonable to limit the use of sidewalks to pedestrians.

Here is a link I located about Bicycle Laws from the League of American Bicyclists:

http://bikeleague.org/StateBikeLaws

the difference between a bicycle and tricycle is only the number of tires. They all come in different sizes.

Again, as I posted, I'm inclined to agree with you that the group in charge simply don't want to bothered by children.

I was simply pointing out a different perspective and providing supporting documentation for that perspective.

Danny of CA didn't write that the toys aren't allowed on sidewalks. There's an exception at our condo HOA for bicycles that may be ridden from the bike storage rooms in the underground parking levels to the kiosk exit gate.

We still, in fact, have no idea what Danny's HOA's covenants or rules state. We only know what Danny claims his PM told him. Perhaps he doesn't have time to reply to questions? Or perhaps he's left us...

We simply don't allow any skateboards, bikes or similar wheeled devices in our interior or exterior common areas. Makes no difference how old the user is.

A teenaged girl visiting her dad for the holidays tried out her inline skates in the area surrounding the pool. Someone called security, who came and she took off the skates. She was lurching around very near the glass fence that surrounds the pool area.

An adult male tried to ride his Segway though our lobby.

We visited a resort condo complex with some young relatives. The furnished condo had tennis rackets & tennis balls, which the kids took to the court. They hadn't brought tennis shoes as normally they wouldn't be needed in this seaside area. They soon returned from tennis saying that people had yelled a them saying bare feet aren't allowed on the courts.

Since you have 4 tennis courts that are used only about 10% of the time can one of the courts be turned into a play area for kids? Are there other kids in your condo that would benefit from a play area? I would suspect there is since you state it's a 400+ complex. Just a thought.

Have you never seen a recumbent 2 front wheel trike doing 35+ mph ?

I have personally been clocked at42.4

On my Bianchi 'bi' I have hit (unofficially) 68 )

A long time ago, in a land far far away.

I, personally, have never gone down accidentally.

The faster one goes, the more stable the machine becomes.

Think gyroscope.

however

I see your point.

for the OP:

Any rule you need should be similar to:

No xxxxx permitted at yyyyyy location.

eg. Bare feet, xxxxx, or yyyyy PROHIBITTED at tennis courts.

NEVER mention age unless strictly permitted or required by state or local law, such as' no unsupervised children under 12 permitted in pool area'.

You may NOT say: No children between 12:00 and 2:00 at the pool

You MAY say: Lap swimming only between 12:00 and 2:00 at the pool