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[dolphi.dolphin]

Here’s a fun quiz, flat dwellers.

 

How many by-laws do you reckon are broken in this little video clip?

 

https://vimeo.com/182351297

Password: 98speedway

 

No ‘parenting’ comments, thank you 🙂 but you’re right, it’s as dangerous as it looks. A few blind corners, one of Sydney’s busiest, secondary roads at the foot of the steep driveway. Plus, we live right next door to a terrific school with an ideal sloping playground and an ‘open-gate’ policy so kids and families can use it all weekend. 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Jimmy-T]

So assuming you have the standard by-law about children not being allowed to play on common property unsupervised, are you going to do the right thing and raise the matter?

Or are you going to do the normal thing and say “not my problem”?

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[dolphi.dolphin]

I am going to do what I think is ‘the right thing’, JimmyT: tell the Executive Committee they should ask the parent not to let their kid do this. It will be controversial because this kid’s dad is actually on the EC himself. (Bit of a cowboy.)  I was just going to send them links to this video with a few well chosen words.

We have by-laws about Obstruction of Common Property, Noise on Common Property, Damage to Common Property (the kid cruises through new plantings and into more mature plants), Children Playing on Common Property, Behaviour on Common Property (peaceful enjoyment, embarrassment).

Any suggestions? I’d hate the kid to end up on the grill of someone’s SUV. We have had a couple of blind-comer-bingles here in the past.

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[Jimmy-T]

I think the best thing you can do is to write to your strata manager and EC saying you are concerned about a kid using the driveway in this way, endangering their own safety as well as that of people in vehicles who may have to swerve to avoid him.  He is also damaging common property and breaching the by-law on children playing on CP.

You could request that the EC/Strata Manager writes to the parent concerned (you will provide the name, privately, if required) and meanwhile issues a letter and erects signs warning residents that the driveway is not a playground.

Hopefully the dad’s default response is embarrassment rather than anger – but this is not a point for debate.  The dangers are clear, as are the by-laws. If need be a Notice To Comply could be considered. 

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