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I’d be checking with your fire regulations/fire safety people first that the peep holes haven’t reduced the fire rating on the doors before you ratify anything.
This might help:
So airbnb, where is the simple form that Owner’s Corporations can fill in which stops people registering airbnb lets in their building? Airbnb lets & their ilk violates the development consent for our building never mind the added stress on our amenties & common areas which airbnb hosts do not pay for. Insurance, security & fire regulations are other concerns.
Plenty of accommodation available in our neck of the woods from luxury to budget. We are not outside of the main hotel/backpackers/b&b area.
My advice would be to consult a strata lawyer in your state. If musical chairs car spaces are permitted under local council provisions I would imagine the strata process involves changing the unit entitlement of both lots & thus a non trivial exercise.
If you know which day the contractor is removing the doors, just arrange for council to pick up as soon as possible after. If the EC won’t do that – have no idea why a simple phone call to council would be a hassle – then one of the residents can do so.
Have no idea who is responsible, but it doesn’t sound like a huge problem to solve. You may wind up with a big pile of doors on the nature strip temporarily – which may disappear before the council get to pick them up.
MDU – Multi dwelling Unit – i.e. strata
FTTP – Fibre to the Premises – what most of us would have under the Labour NBN plan – fibre run to each dwelling, including apartments.
FTTB – Fibre to the basement – what some of us will get now – a piece of NBN kit is placed in your MDF room/communications cupboard/room & you use existing building wiring to connect to the kit in your MDF room.
OC – Owner’s Corporation
LOCID – NBN speak for a location ID, how they identify your premises.
Registration form for strata for the NBN:
https://www2.nbnco.com.au/mdu/cases/new
Apologies in advance if anything in my post is still unclear. I was trying to be helpful.
Haven’t been connected yet, but have been tracking the NBN for MDUs for a while. The whirpool broadband forums on the NBN might be a more appropriate forum for your query. Link to the MDU thread @ whirlpool:
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2131608
Your OC should not be up for any cost. The NBN will either run FTTP, FTTB or use existing cable infrastructure to connect your residents. When they’re ready to commence rolling out in your area your OC will be contacted. You can register your building with NBN Co & obtain a registration & LOCID if you want to be on the contact list.
More info here: https://www.nbnco.com.au/
Here’s a non-paywalled version of the article referred to the previous post #15:
An article of interest to those following this topic:
“TPG Telecom’s plan to extend its fibre network to half a million of the nation’s most lucrative apartment blocks is hitting major hurdles as building managers, wary that the company could lock out competing broadband providers, begin blocking the company from installing its equipment….”
(see next post #16 for a link to the article – Mod.)
So the small building on the community grounds are the association property of the community association? i.e. the building doesn’t belong to any one strata scheme in the association?
Apologies if the following is the bleedin’ obvious…
The legislation for Community Associations can be found here:
Management Act: https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/clma1989255/
Development Act: https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/clda1989292/
There is a living in community schemes doc from NSW Fair Trading here:
https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/About_us/Publications/ft191.pdf
Schedule 6 of the Management Act mentions what sorts of motions need unaminous &/| special resolutions & what sort require amendment to the community association management statement. Direct link here:
https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/clma1989255/sch6.html
I suspect community schemes are a rare commodity at the moment, so if you can’t find the answer in the legislation or the by-laws/docs for your community association, I suggest consulting a strata lawyer who knows the community scheme stuff as well.
Sorry to be no more use than a link fest.
It’s not unheard of that AGMs resolve to remove the ‘10% over budget’ spending limitation for ECs. We do so every year. Better that than have to call an EGM to pay an electricity bill. If your EC acts responsibly & reports back to lot owners every month on how the budget & finances are going you should feel comfortable about how your levies are being spent.
Why don’t you attend a few EC meetings & get a feel for what’s going on, have your say? One person’s frivolous pet project is another’s necessity.
You might also want to check the DA lodged with council. City of Sydney council have a standard clause (part of the Local Environment Plan now I believe) which restricts the letting of car parks in apartment buildings. So depending on when your building was built, you may not be able to let your car park to anyone who isn’t already an occupant of the building.
The wording in our DA is:
“The on-site car parking spaces, exclusive of designated visitor car parking spaces, are not to be used by those other than an occupant of or person residing in the subject building and any tenant or registered proprietor of the development site or part thereof shall not enter into an agreement to lease, licence, or transfer ownership of such car parking spaces to those other than an occupant or resident of the subject building.”
I highly recommend a read of this blog post by an industry expert:
https://blog.lindsaystrategic.com/2014/04/08/carrier-access-powers/
We were in a similar situation with hard wired smoke alarms. We decided the end result was easier & cheaper if we just bought the units in bulk & had them installed by the same contractor who was already doing fire order related work in the building.
The OC paid for the purchase & installation of the smoke alarms. Doing it this way ensured that all units complied, reducing the risk to all other lot owners in the strata. Also kept our fire protection & insurance people happy.
Much bigger strata though, 300+ lots.
All the best with your cost recovery.
Not sure about the legalities of the situation… but if you have a resident who wants to help take care of common property, our EC would be stumping up the cost of the hose. Might be even easier for whoever looks after the grounds/gardens to have a tap plumbed closer to the garden & a shorter hose. Readily available hose reels typically only hold 30m of hose.
On the hose front… Our community garden does really well with 2x30m cheapie hoses spliced together with a connector. The Reject Shop & their ilk have hoses for about $12 a pop. They’ve lasted much longer than the no kink, fancy pants, $75 a pop ones we started out with which kept springing leaks.
I’d be just paying the $2.30 now & avoiding any hassle. & in future add an extra $2.30 to any levies payment to account for the auspost charges.
It’s my understanding that you need to be debt free to be able to vote at meetings.