So, our neighborhood HOA pushed out a revised parking policy for our gated community.
OLD POLICY (summary): No overnight street parking
NEW POLICY (summary): No street parking between 1am and 6am. Visitors requiring overnight parking must submit a waiver 48-hours in advance. No blocking the sidewalk or spilling out into the street (doubling up cars in driveways blocks the side walk)
We have a 4-car tandem garage (basically a longer 2-car garage), but lost most of the usable parking space due to our elevation that required an 8' stair case be erected inside the garage. Therefore, we have one car in the garage, two in the driveway, and one in the street. AND we've submitted a waiver request.
Our nextdoor neighbors built their home with a 3-car garage and moved in about a year ago. They have a large lawn trailer, FOUR trucks and a car. Since living here they've been parking 1 or 2 in the street (no biggie, so do we). After the policy update, they started double stacking five vehciles in the driveway, thus blocking the sidewalk. Ok. No biggie.
Yesterday, the wife posts this gem on our community FB page:
Hi everyone! We're somewhat new to the area. Just found out about this page by another neighbor. We deliberately moved into a gated community w/a stringet HOA. Something we did not have before. We absolutely love the no vehicles on the street policy. Our old neighbors would leave their vehicles parked in front of our home 24/7. It created a lot tension between us. We did read HOA rules prior to moving into the community and that is why we selected AR. Now to see that others are attempting to go around the rules is very disappointing. Rules are rules no matter what. That's our take.
Now we're all arguing about this on the page. These are people we welcomed to the neighborhood the week they moved in with a gift basket and an invite to dinner. We've had many great interactions/conversations and now this passive aggressive post and follow-up justifications for her "opinion."
Funny thing is, she's violating THREE HOA rules while touting "rules are rules"? I've given a few responses, but want to go for the throat...
Thoughts?
OLD POLICY (summary): No overnight street parking
NEW POLICY (summary): No street parking between 1am and 6am. Visitors requiring overnight parking must submit a waiver 48-hours in advance. No blocking the sidewalk or spilling out into the street (doubling up cars in driveways blocks the side walk)
We have a 4-car tandem garage (basically a longer 2-car garage), but lost most of the usable parking space due to our elevation that required an 8' stair case be erected inside the garage. Therefore, we have one car in the garage, two in the driveway, and one in the street. AND we've submitted a waiver request.
Our nextdoor neighbors built their home with a 3-car garage and moved in about a year ago. They have a large lawn trailer, FOUR trucks and a car. Since living here they've been parking 1 or 2 in the street (no biggie, so do we). After the policy update, they started double stacking five vehciles in the driveway, thus blocking the sidewalk. Ok. No biggie.
Yesterday, the wife posts this gem on our community FB page:
Hi everyone! We're somewhat new to the area. Just found out about this page by another neighbor. We deliberately moved into a gated community w/a stringet HOA. Something we did not have before. We absolutely love the no vehicles on the street policy. Our old neighbors would leave their vehicles parked in front of our home 24/7. It created a lot tension between us. We did read HOA rules prior to moving into the community and that is why we selected AR. Now to see that others are attempting to go around the rules is very disappointing. Rules are rules no matter what. That's our take.
Now we're all arguing about this on the page. These are people we welcomed to the neighborhood the week they moved in with a gift basket and an invite to dinner. We've had many great interactions/conversations and now this passive aggressive post and follow-up justifications for her "opinion."
Funny thing is, she's violating THREE HOA rules while touting "rules are rules"? I've given a few responses, but want to go for the throat...
Thoughts?
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