Adequate notice by HOA prior to parking lot resurfacing

I am a condo owner in northern VA and was recently informed by the HOA management a few hours before a parking lot resurfacing project was to begin that my tenant’s vehicles had to be moved off the property or they would be towed. The HOA mgmt only notified the owners and not the tenants, saying it was the owners responsibility to communicate with the tenants, even though in most cases, the management is fully aware of the contact information for each tenant. By the time I saw the email notice my tenant’s vehicles were already towed across the street to a private parking lot. My tenants are traveling on vacation overseas so even if they had received the notice they would not have been able to move their cars and prevent them from being towed. A few days later the HOA mgmt notified the owners that the vehicles that were towed to the parking lot needed to be removed from the parking lot or risk being impounded. As my tenants are overseas I had to arrange towing of their vehicles back to the condo parking lot so that my tenants would not incur a large impoundment and storage fee.

At this point the HOA says that I am required to pay for the towing.

I believe that receiving just a few hours notice prior to the parking lot resurfacing project is unreasonable. Luckily for my tenants I was still in town to assure that their cars were safely returned. Had I been on vacation their cars would be in an impoundment lot right now racking up thousand of dollars of fees as they are out of the country until mid August.
Anyways- what do you all think would have been reasonable notice? And should the HOA reimburse me for costs I incurred in arranging towing of my tenants vehicles?

In a Perfect world, the HOA was well aware of the parking lot being resurfaced, at least 90 days they knew. The HOA should have communicated this along the way. 90, 60, 30 one week.
Resurfacing is usually completed is phases as not not up end the entire apple cart. In my past experience, both home and work no cars are towed off property. Cars are towed to another location on the property.

If the people can without a doubt no proper prior notice was given, the HOA should eat the towing charges.

Notice by the mgmt was poorly executed. Many owners received notice after their cars or their tenant’s cars were towed across the street. The first notice I received was a few hours before my tenants cars were towed but I did not see that email until later in the day. In my first notice I was told that I needed to move the cars to another section of the private parking lot or the cars may be impounded so I didn’t actually receive any advance notice of the parking lot improvement project.
I presented the facts as I experienced them and requested advice. Two responses to my post cast doubt on my assertion that the mgmt was unreasonably late, but they were. Admittedly it is rather unbelievable. Even if the tenant had made provisions for emergency assistance regarding their vehicles, the mgmt never notified them, their cars would have been towed and then impounded had I not intervened to prevent that outcome. At this point the board is considering whether or not to reimburse me. Some board members definitely agree with my view that the mgmt mismanaged this situation and that they should reimburse me. Many condo owners are seriously concerned about the competency of the mgmt company.

Our HOA communicates with both Owners and renters, Newsletters, community rules, complaints, community happenings. The only items not discussed with renters are private matters
like billing, fines and summoned to hearings.