Should parking be less of a scramble for owners than tenants? A Flat Chat reader has written to us about his unit block where he parks his car in an area designated for residents but where the spaces have not been allocated to specific units.
It’s ‘scramble’ parking and residents get the spaces on a first come, first served basis. If all the spaces are gone, they park on the street.
The issue for our reader is that he leaves his car in a space all day and only uses his car a couple of times a week. This means he usually has a space while other residents – specifically owners – often have to make do with on-street parking.
This has irked his Executive Committee which has sent him a note saying he is using the parking space as ‘storage’ which is against the by-laws.
Now this has more of a whiff of anti-tenant bias, combined with a splash of bureaucratic balderdash. But it does make you wonder how you regulate parking spaces when every unit is entitled to use them but there aren’t enough to go round.
Our FlatChatters responses range from ‘stand your ground’ to ‘toe the line’. You can read them HERE on the Forum.