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@JimmyT said:
I take a different view for two reasons. The first is that the strata committee represents a powerful and considered opinion.  The matter has been discussed and a consensus reached so it can’t be so easily dismissed as the rantings of your run of the mill, common or garden, loony grumbler.

Secondly, after years of telling your residents that you (collectively) know best and that you will look after the best interests of the building and it’s residents, it’s not helpful to say that anything outside the front door but in the immediate vicinity is no concern of the strata committee’s.

 

But that’s not our situation – at least not yet.   It hasn’t been discussed at all – it’s just one suggestion for an agenda item from one committee member.  It might not even be so important to the other committee members, other owners or to neigbouring properties.

And we haven’t been telling our residents for years that we know best on neighborhood issues.

The question is more about is there even the right for a committee to take on neigbourhood issues as the representative of all owners/residents?  When the council informs us from their side about neighbourhood issues they write to individual owners, not to the OC.

When I read the OC Act, (Owners Corporations Act 2006 VIC s.4) titled “Functions and powers of owners corporation” nothing about neighbourhood issues is there.  It’s seems very clear, at least to me, that it’s all or at least mostly about common property. 

I question if a strata committee alone is even legally allowed to represent all OC owners on neigbourhood issues. Is it overstepping its authority?  I suspect it might be.

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