I have frequently suggested that strata schemes should have a statement of intent on the front page of their by-laws, just so everybody knows what they’re dealing with. I don’t mean one of those “mission statements” that mean nothing and noone reads anyway.
I’m thinking of stuff that gets to the nub of apartment living, directly and clearly. Something like:
We recognise everyone’s right to have a social life but we will actively pursue excessive and/or repeated noise with applications for fines and orders from the Tribunal, and calls to the police, if need be. (See By-law XX).
We accept that residents want to have pets but they are subject to our restrictions. (See By-law YY).
Visitor parking is for visitors only. Definitions of bona fide visitors and restrictions on parking times and durations are set out in by-law ZZ.
Short-term letting is not allowed in this building (see by-law AB). We use the services of BnbGuard to identify culprits and then employ whatever legal means available to us to punish and prevent by-law breaches in this regard.
You get the idea. When I suggested this to our committee, one of the bush lawyers on it said we’d get into trouble because residents would say that other by-laws could be ignored as they were clearly not as important. When I countered that the point was that people don’t read the bleeding by-laws most of the time I was accused of being cynical. Me?