On-Duty Call Employees

Why are people complaining? Is he taking someone's parking space? Do they object to a commercial vehicle? (My CC&Rs prohibit the residents from parking a commercial vehicle, but this does not apply to service people.)

As long as he is complying with the parking restriction in your CC&Rs, I'm not seeing the issue. In fact, if he is keeping his tools and equipment in the truck, this would save him a trip to his workplace to load up and would speed up the response. That sounds like a good thing to me (think broken water pipe or other emergency).

We had an owner who worked for the county drainage district. Every couple of months he'd be "on call" 24x7 for a week. He brought his work vehicle into the neihgborhood and parked it in the clubhouse lot. His neighbors didn't like it parked near their homes where they'd have to look at it, but he thought nothing of us who overlook the clubhouse lot.

It was a large utility truck with ladders and buckets and big orange water coolers bungee-corded to the back. Shovels, picks, some power tools, etc. And filthy dirty. I spoke to him one morning and he lied to me by saying the board had approved him to keep it in the neighborhood for a week. Then he told me he was retiring from the county in a couple of months so I let it go. After the week we never saw it again.

At a work site I'm sure it's a beautiful thing, but in a residential neighborhood it's a monstrosity. He was clearly in violation of our CC&Rs and would have had to remove it from the property if anyone followed through on it. The fact that it was a vehicle assigned to him by his employer who required him to have possession of it for a week, is irrelevant.

There has been no complaints but was more interested in what other HOAs were doing or how other HOAs were handling such situations... our HOA has NOTHING in the CC&Rs covering it and was wondering how it was handled just in case a complaint did occur.

My last HOA did not allow for overnight parking of "commercial" vehicles even in your own driveway. We had several go arounds with people. One was two identical vehicles but one had lettering on the rear window advertising a real estate agent. We ruled it commercial. We did allow police vehicles. Each home had at least a two car garage and many that objected, could have parked in their garage.

My present HOA has no restrictions on commercial vehicles.

Look ... this is about following whatever rules you have ... if the rules don’t align with what the community wants to do - and the community realizes the down side of relaxing rules, then change the CCRs.

If the community doesn’t want to relax the CCRs, then enforce the CCRs.