parking violations

Bob, I suggest you click on the Search tab at upper right; type in parking violations; and read some of the 41 posts.

Dawn,

I’m glad to have read your post. I too have homeowners parking in the street on a pretty frequent basis. Are CC&R states that no vehicle is allow to park in the street. We have people parking in the streets, across the sidewalks and in their own yards. I have mentioned it several times to the other members of the board, the president says it has already been done, and it has gotten us no where.
I feel if they receive a notice saying that their in violation and that their vehicle will be towed, if not removed within x number of hours. It is also a county ordinance, but when you call the police, (if they come out) the violators have had plenty of time to remove the car. When ever he/she returns they will park in the street again. As if it is their driveway.

We are an HOA of 275 homes. Only 15 cars (or so) are illegally parked in the streets on a daily basis. This doesn’t seem like a lot of cars, but if you combined that with, Garbage cans (being left out curbside), and the occasional visitor we all have this makes a potentially unsafe situation for any emergency vehicle.

Sounds like a pretty common problem in many HOA around the country.
Thanks once again.

I’m will to try again though.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Chuck W.

We are a new (4 years) HOA. We are making our first attempt at establishing some rules - which our covenants allow us to do. Parking is the most discussed issue. We are an upscale town home golf course community. We have 2 car garages and would like to encourage the homeowner to use the garage to store their vehicles (not their driveways or common parking)as we have very limited parking. Also a big issue is homeower parking on a public street next to our HOA. Any thoughts?

I live in Fl. and our CC&R also states no parking in the street but when we tried to enforce it, we were told by the county police that it was a public street and we could not stop the parking. I don't understand this because as was stated above, emergency vehicles could not get through if needed. We were told we could only enforce this rule if our streets were private.

An HOA can enforce a restriction on no parking in the streets within the subdivision when the restriction is in their Declaration when the streets are dedicated with a plat which states the HOA reserves the right to enforce their CC&Rs. Normally laws are made to restrict rather than to allow since there may be an infinite number of options for allowing. Cities, such as mine, have restrictions against parking on public City streets longer than 72 consecutive hours in the same location.

As homes get smaller, many homeowners need the "garage" space for other uses. As for the "3 to 5 cars", this is certainly a problem but as lifestyles change over the years, we now have vehicles for both parents as well as each child old enough to drive. Few parents have the guts to tell their teenage children that they can't have their own car, much less because of the CC&Rs in their subdividion. And what do you do about parking for guests? Or overnight guests?

We're a little different than you, our development is detached single family homes, each with a driveway and garage. There is no visitor parking lot, nor is there a place to put one. Our CC&Rs limit parking to the garage and no more than three vehicles in the driveway. "Overnight parking" is not permitted on the streets but they are public streets so this would be pretty difficult to enforce. And define "overnight". If someone parks at 6PM and leaves at 6AM the next day, that's clearly overnight. What if they park at 2AM and leave at 6AM? What if you observed the vehicle park at 6PM and leave at 6AM but they tell you they went to the store and came back? Is that "overnight"? And if you can't prove that the vehicle belongs to a homeowner there's absolutely nothing that you can do. You can't fine the person they were visiting, they didn't park the vehicle on the street overnight.