How can we resolve ongoing parking issues when one lot's tenant uses all available resident and visitor spaces?
We have a three-lot strata scheme with one resident parking space and two visitor spaces. The tenant of one unit regularly uses the resident space and, when it's occupied, parks in a visitor space. Sometimes, unit 2's visitors use both visitor spaces. During these times, one lot fills all available parking spaces.
We've asked the tenant politely to have at least one visitor park on the street, but they've ignored this. What would be an amicable and practical way to resolve this ongoing parking problem?
We don't feel it would be unreasonable in these circumstances to restrict one car per lot at any given time on the common property.
The owners corporation could use its powers for the management, administration, control, use or enjoyment of the common property and lots of a strata scheme to create a by-law for a more equitable parking arrangement. To restrict one car per lot at any given time on the common property would not, in our view, be unreasonable in these circumstances. You should check your local council's development consent conditions to determine the requirements for visitor parking (if any). None of the residents should use visitor parking at any time, as it is intended for bona fide visitors only.
If there are no requirements for visitor parking, the owners corporation could consider granting exclusive use of one of the visitor parking spaces to each of the owners pursuant to an exclusive use by-law, with the remaining space to be reserved for visitor parking on a first in best dressed basis and also to be regulated via a by-law (time stipulations, frequency of visits etc).
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