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I believe that many Strata owners are not aware that the change to the by-laws implemented last year was a whole stack of media hype over nothing… The change was only made to the by-law contained in the residential scheme’s model by-laws, which means that your owners corporation would need to change the existing registered by-laws, and if you don’t have registered by-laws, than your scheme is under the schedule 1 by-laws contained in the act, which haven’t changed… So Struggler, if your OC has not changed the by-law at a general meeting and registered the change, than you may be operating under the wrong by-law…
Now onto the real issue, yes it should be reasonable to expect that you should not have to be dodging individual owners washing lines out on common property to get to your own front door, though tread lightly, as this is still a matter of democratic process… At the end of the day it is down to what the majority of owners find acceptable.
I always find it a valuable experience to go for a drive through some of those wonderful C suburbs and see how other cultures choose to live, and it makes me appreciate my own home!