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Just an observation. We have a rather strict committee who insists balconies be kept neat and tidy, no washing, nothing overhanging, nothing is to be stored in the parking spaces, etc… And that’s fair enough.
But when it comes to pot plants, these rules get overlooked – and the main offenders are committee members and their friends.
Case in point – the “balcony nazi” on the committee has sprawling flowering plants hanging off her balcony across the facias. These are cream-coloured cement rendered facias – and they’re being stained and dirtied by her plants. So I find the whole thing hippocritical. It seems there’s one rule for plants, and one rule for other items.
Another example – she cracks down when anybody leaves anything in their parking space. Except her friend who has two large, permanent pot plants in his parking space.
I have no interest in plants. If I wanted a garden, I would be living in a house or something that had a private courtyard … but I can understand plants and gardens are a hobby for some people. Okay, so model trains are my hobby. Would that make it right for me to set up a model train layout that overhangs my balcony, or put one in my parking space. Of course not… and I wouldn’t have the ordasity to do that!
Again, not really a question… Just an interesting observation.
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It depends on how much you want to get offside with these people. Damaging common property is against the bylaws and action can be taken against offenders.
Bylaws cannot be applied selectively if one person is allowed to use parking space for items other than a vehicle other have the same right. Start leaving bins, ladders, etc in your parking space and say you will remove yours when others remove items other than vehicles. Take photos to prove you point.
Oh yes – do as I say, not as I do. We have one owner who has been here a long time and she has very definite ideas about what people can and can’t do, none of it applying to her. Woe betide anyone who parks their car in front of their garage (fronting the street) momentarily, but she does it all the time, and tells her visitors to do the same, blocking everyone else.
Don’t get me started on her collection of half-dead plants that until recently littered the back stairs. They were moved because of building works but I am sure they will be back……
Rant over.