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The 38 units are divided into 7 distinct buildings. The resident parking spaces are on ground level, under each building. Each space is allotted to a unit number. There’s a separate outdoor visitor area (that’s not the issue here).
Our resident parking spaces are “open” like a carport (i.e. there is no garage door, and no form of barrier between adjacent spaces except for the brick walls that separate the actual buildings). Any leaves, dirt, and garden debris is free to blow around to/from the common area driveway and also between adjacent resident spaces.
Each parking space has its own electricity supply which is metered to the relevant unit, and each has an adjacent private storeroom (these are obviously up to each resident to clean).
The committee insists that residents are not permitted to store ANYTHING (e.g. tyres, boxes, furniture, fridges, etc.) in their parking space because it is considered “common property” – such items must be kept in the separate lockup storerooms… so with reference to the “balcony” comparison – with a balcony you can use a balcony any way you like (within reason), and a balcony is an enclosed private space, whereas permitted use of our parking spaces is tightly controlled (i.e. car only and nothing else), which leads me to believe they should be cleaning them.
It’s early days yet… haven’t seen too many people out there with brooms and most are looking awfully messy already!