#24891
Small strata wiz
Flatchatter

    Hi Jimmy T

    In one of your above posts, you said “NB: this only applies to owners and tenants.  Visitors can’t be clamped because they haven’t signed up for the by-laws, even by default.”

    All of our spaces are properly linemarked, each space has our street number painted in it, and there are signs identifying it as our parking area.

    Residents from an adjacent strata property drive into our place and thieve most or all of the parking. Because of the layout of the property, and the position of the entrance at the end of a no-through lane, there’s no easy way we can secure the access or boundary.

    Our strata agent manages both properties, and has spoken to the people concerned (as have we, politely), and this worked for about a day. It’s simply more convenient for them to drive 5m into our place than 30m up to their own visitors’ park (at least then they’d be breaching their own by laws). One stated that they have a “right” to park there as their garage is used is for storage…

    They’re not only taking the marked spaces, but parking on other common property such as lawns. The irony is that they could legally park in their own garages, or along one side of the public lane.

    You seem to be saying that we have to put up with this, at inconvenience to our own residents, and potential risk and liability for the owners. Surely some sort of fine applies if polite requests don’t work?

    The only way that I can see is to allocate all the visitor spaces to our own residents (one per lot not on unit share) and then bollard the spaces.

    Any thoughts? Thanks.