@Whale said:
Kiwipaul – that part of my post was somewhat facetious and was not suggesting that the visitors’ carspaces be removed, but rather that the By-Law that prevents residents from using them be repealed. Nonetheless you’re correct, in that an over-zealous Council could get their bureaucratic nickers in a knot if the required numbers of visitors’ carspaces weren’t available for that purpose.
Too right – allowing residents to use Visitors Parking means it’s not visitors parking any more. If the number of VP spaces has been stipulated in the Development Approval, any by-law allowing residents to park there would be unsafe as it is contrary to a superior law (local council planning laws).
It’s all well and good for us to use visitor spaces on an ad hoc basis but it leaves us vulnerable to abuse when one owner takes a neighbour’s 10 minute shopping drop-off as an excuse to park their second or third car overnight.
I can’t think of any circumstances where ‘written permission’ to allow a resident to park temporarily in visitors parking which has been established in planning approval has any validity at all. It’s nice to have a bit of give and take but as anyone who has lived through parking Wars will attest, it’s a slippery slope.