71°, cloudy with a 30% chance of rain overnight. Tomorrow, 84°, cloudy, 50% chance of rain.
After 38 years of relative obscurity, our HOA is erupting into a royal pain in the ass. They are trying to restrict parking to two cars / household. They are mailing out two parking permit tags to each household... Wait until the
hits the fan, when they try to enforce it.
This is not a gated community, it is a subdivision of free standing single family homes, property owners own to the curb and are responsible for maintaining their own exterior property, including driveways and sidewalks. The township owns and maintains the streets, including streetlights, which are maintained by the power utility. All the HOA is responsible for is the storm drainage basins and the unbuildable wetlands, and the maintenance thereof. That's what our annual fee is for.
Really doesn't bother me, we currently have 1 car, kept inside the garage. I have no intention of displaying the tags, or in any other way co-operating with the board. I'll pay the annual fee, until I move on. The ones impacted by this are the two + car families with older kids who have their own cars, and living at home. Two families across the street have three cars, plus each child has or will have a car. They are automatically over the arbitrary limit. The HOA claims this is a "Quality of Life Issue", to justify it, but in reality, it is a veiled attempt to prevent the new homeowners of the Orthodox Jewish community from having family and guests park in the street, when celebrating their Sabath. It won't take long for the First Amendment Lawsuits to be filed, and that will cost the entire community a fortune, due to the bigotry of the HOA Board.
Just another incentive to sell the place as quickly as possible.
