Reply To: Using common property for your own garden

It is a situation brought about by an owner who rents out AirBnB rooms in her apartment and it seems, on the face of it, is trying to discredit the long-serving Secretary. The Secretary (and the Strata Committee) has opposed the AirBnB host moves to put seats on the common deck (presumably so her AirBnB customers can bask in the sun). There is a narrow laneway on side of the apartment block that once was a place to dump used condoms, syringes etc. The Secretary has rehabilitated the laneway which is now lined with garden pots and a couple of worms farms. Recently the Secretary received a notice stating that she was in breach of two by-laws: obstruction of common property; and damage to lawns and plants on common property – an owner of a lot must not (b) use for her own purposes as a garden any portion of the common property.   Residents are still able to use the laneway (very few do) as the pots and worm farms are on one side, and I don’t believe that the laneway is being used by the Secretary for her own purpose, hence my question about ‘use’. Thanks.