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It’s a safety issue if people cannot access the meter room in order to isolate power to one’s apartment. Let me explain our situation:
We’ve been living in a duplex for some time, and have always had access to the ‘meter room’, where there are only two meters – one for each apartment. The room is never locked. However, the main switch for our apartment is located in that meter room rather than in our sub-box located elsewhere in the building – which contains our circuit breakers. When our neighbour enclosed the meter room in their garage two years ago, after moving their garage door outwards (clearly an area of common property), we no longer had access to the meter room. But worse, if we needed to switch off power to our apartment in an emergency, such as fire, we would not have been able to. Situations like those described below call into question not only the motives of those jealously guarding their keys, but the issue of safety for the entire building.