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The situation I have is similar. The committee has created some rules of its own, icluding a vehicle speed limit. There are too lazy to create a proper bylaw, so they just decide to spend money on a sign, and suddenly the new rule is in force. But the problem is that they then use this rule and anonymous, undocumented complaints about speeding, to harass owners that they don’t like.
One owner is currently disputing the comittee’s actions over a bylaw. While the dispute is going through the adjudication process, the committee has embarked on a campaign that has includd anonymous complaints of noise (now withdrawn), threats of legal action for defamation and, more recently, comments in the minutes such as “Villa xx and Villa yy continually breach this speed limit.”
The latest is a letter including the comment “The owners at the complex have advised that a number of residents, including yourself, are exceeding the vehicle speed limit…”. No documentation is available, no indication of dates or times, no evidence indicating how the speed was measured, and no explanation as to why the driver wasn’t spoken to at the time.
How do you stop a committee from using it’s made-up rules to harass and embarrass owners that it is in dispute with?