#21527
Whale
Flatchatter

    Don, whilst we don’t yet know the reasons for your query, if your Plan is experiencing problems with illegal parking I’ll let you in on a little trick that one of our Sons and me tried at his strata building, near a commuter railway station.

    His Owners Corporation had Registered a Special By-Law covering the wheel clamping and removal of illegally parked vehicles and had purchased a few wheel clamps, but the E/C was hesitant to use them on the same half-dozen or so commuters’ vehicles that were regularly parked in visitors carspaces and in the car wash bays.

    So one night he and another couple of cooperative Owners parked their vehicles in some of those carspaces, and we then conspicuously fitted those bright yellow wheel clamps and a placed a similarly coloured typewritten note from the Owners Corporation on each of the windscreens to advise that the vehicles would be towed off-site on the next day.

    Then during the next day they put their vehicles back in the correct carspaces (one level lower) and after that, like magic, the illegal parkers disappeared!!

    I just rang our Son to check on the current status, and he said that whilst different “visitors” have since appeared periodically, the same trick has chased them away – even though they’ve had to co-opt different Owners to make their vehicles available as the hapless towees.