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Checked with the SM as well…suprisingly they are more than happy for us to do that and just send them the paperwork as proof…and that it saves us money too…which was a suprise!

More work, but faster and cheaper results!

I also get the same where I send somebody to the SM and they send them right back…for a maintenance issue, its not like I can arrange and pay for a tradie

Thanks Sir H…Generally the SC would be happy to just let things stay as they are. This then opens the can-o-worms of other parking issues. I was trying to keep the parking issues seperate.

We have an eldery resident that has parked in front of thier garage for years (common property), has raised a motion at the last AGM wanting permission to formalize that arrangement (failed), we’ve had the vehicle towed, and a notice to comply issued (ignored). The resident had a fall over christmas and is claiming mobility issues. While we are not unsympathetic to thier plight, due to the layout of the complex, allowing the car (a large 4WD) to remain where it is, or in a nearby common property location, obstructs/blocks access for 3 other residents to use thier garages. One of these residents is blind and thier carer needs garage access. The reason given for parking where they do is “i have mobility issues, and need easy access to my car”. To add to things, the car is usually not moved for days, twice a week if we’re lucky.

The SC wants to take this to the tribunal as our next step for non-compliance, mediation was initiated by the resident, but they did not like who our representatives were. The SM suggests that we need to go in with “clean hands” ourselves and formalize the above 3 spaces for residents before doing so…this is so that the offending resident can’t then say “others are parking on common property without penalty, why am i being singled out”…

• They could park thier car in one of the 3 newly allocated “residents spaces”, but due to the size of the 4WD and small size of the space, they tend to scrape thier car.
• We could allocate a space in the visitors parking, but thats 150m away and would be too far for thier mobility issues.
• They could park in thier garage, but they claim they cannot reverse (which i thought was a prerequisite to drive)…but can do a 5-7 point turn to get out.

Yes, the SC should not have let this go on for so long…hindsight 🙂

Lets just say we are a little frustrated, to the extent where police were called due to people being parked in.

Unfortunately there are other issues with this resident, so nobody is really on speaking terms with them. Even the SM has thier own set of issues.

We are all just looking for a way forward and would rather no have to go to the tribunal.