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AleshaZ (Colorado)
Posts: 10

Posted:

We are split down the middle with the folks on our communities’ online poll as to change our covenants. That's not the question. We are currently putting stickers on all cars violating our overnight parking rule. When we implemented a parking policy the violation report went from 30 pages to 1-2 pages a week. Now they are grumpy as fines are starting to accumulate. There has been mention on our website's forum of offering a parking pass for purchase.
HERE'S THE Q: What are some problems that you foresee with a pass and what are the solutions/rules for something like this. What is a reasonable cost? We are a 500+ single fam home community in Suburbia. We have all 2 car -3 car garages and our own driveways.. There are boats taking up garages as well as work trucks that won't fit in garage. Teen drivers and military’s odd hours, and unexpected guests are the reasons that we are getting from H.O.'s to change.
FYI we are also implementing a electronic pass for our pool (as it was physical keys that never got turned over to new owners.) and we will be able to lock out people who are behind on dues, fines, liens etc. So I am asking for solutions before pool season is open in May.

MicheleD (Kentucky)
Posts: 4,491

Posted:

A parking pass for what?

This is not a condo or townhouse development with assigned or homeowner-specific parking places.

Regardless of their excuses, if people have 2- and 3-car garages, and you have parking restrictions, either enforce them, ALL of them -- against ALL violators -- or DON'T.

But don't set up a system where people can "buy" their way out of abiding by the Deed Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions.

And you are right, the on-line poll is meaningless.

Unless you know for a fact that every resident has been able to contribute to the poll, and that others have not been able to post more than one vote, then an online poll really tells you nothing.

MikeS1
Posts: 521

Posted:

There's not enough info here. What's the overnight parking rule? What is the problem here and what is your goal? As far as implementing a permit system, you can usually establish an agreement with a towing company that specialized in impounds and the towing company will provide the numbered permits (hang tags or stickers) for free as long as they monitor the streets and are allowed to tow vehicles without permits.

AleshaZ (Colorado)
Posts: 10

Posted:

A parking pass to park on our streets that we currently have patrolled on random nights between the hours of 12-5am. The parking rule is NO street parking midnight-5am. The builder set up covenant says, “overnight parking”. A previous board decided that that meant 12-5. Currently the violator gets the policy flyer on their window, and then a bright sticker notifying them next time will be a fine, and then a fine in the mail. The streets are owned and snow cleared BY the county but the streets were deeded to us and our attorney has confirmed, that we are responsible for the streets parking situation as is was done before the developer gave the streets BACK to the county.

The problem is that at every annual meeting the vocal people feel that this is such a problem that they talk about it for 30-45 minutes. We get people saying it’s not MY car. “The Board is on a power trip” and “picking on me”… etc. They proclaim that they KNOW 67% of homeowners want to get rid of the rule. I currently have the attorney looking into what legal proceeding we have to have to get the 67% signatures or IN PERSON vote that I’ve found in our covenants. This would be changing a covenant. I have no problem with saying, “OK xyz, get 67% to sign this/show up, then the covenant can be changed.” It’s the gossip chain that is starting and the self doubt we have if the rule interpretation is TOO strict and are we being unreasonable.

Currently, if they email us before they are parking; we have no problem waiving a license plate for some situations, up to 2 weeks. But H.O.’s don’t think they should have to even ask. We are a working community and there are times that things come up but people are not giving many solutions on the forum other then the permit idea. I was hoping that you all would be able to give some ideas for reasonable terms, if we already ARE reasonable, or problems that may arise from doing a permit system. Or another solution entirely.

KirkW1 (Texas)
Posts: 1,665

Posted:

Having the exact idea of how to change the covenants is a great idea. I would also directly place effort into the hands of the complainers. Further, changing the covenant is truly the best solution to the problem.

It does sound like you want to be reasonable people. And it can be hard to come up with what constitutes overnight parking. If you want to try and loosen the interpretation a little, I would change the wording to indicate that the car has been stationary for a period of more then say two hours between the given hours. This would give some flexibility to those leaving shortly after midnight or coming in shortly before 5.

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