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I disagree. This regulation doesn’t only apply to abandoned vehicles – it also applies to cars, for instance, blocking driveways and exits (you might reasonably assume that vehicle access, egress and pedestrian fire exits are a prime concern).
This is what section 34 of the regulations says:
(1)This clause applies to a motor vehicle left on common property that is placed so that it blocks an exit or entrance or otherwise obstructs the use of common property.
(2)The owners corporation may take action under this clause if the owners corporation has placed a removal notice on or near the motor vehicle and the requirements of of the notice are not complied with within the period specified in the removal notice.
It goes on to specify how the notice should be presented which is with the clear intention that the owner of the vehicle has an opportunity to remove it.
The car may indeed be abandoned or it may be negligently parked by someone who doesn’t use it that often, the fact remains that if the car isn’t moved within five days of the notice going up, it can be removed to somewhere that doesn’t obstruct common property.
A five-day window before removal doesn’t suggest abandonment to me as much as careless parking. And what does “obstructs the use of common property” mean? Surely it simply means the vehicle is on common property.
Also, section 34 allows for the Owners Corp to take the car owner to the tribunal to recoup the costs of the car’s removal – again, that would suggest that the intention wasn’t solely to deal with abandoned vehicles, even if they may have been uppermost in the author’s thinking.
And while I half-jokingly suggested the car could be moved to a parking spot where it might accrue fines, if the nearest place that it could be moved to would incur charges, so be it. You can’t put it elsewhere on common property, you can’t put it in visitor parking or a resident’s car space, so where is it going to go?