Posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:20 AM PST by Rebelbase
AUBURN, Calif. (WCMH) – Members of a California community are upset after their homeowners’ association told them they need to keep their garage doors open during the day.
A list left with homeowners in the Auburn Greens subdivision is giving many residents a cause for concern. It mandates leaving garage doors up from 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, KTXL reported.
Residents who fail to keep their garage door up face a $200 fine and an administrative hearing.
“I have nothing to hide. I understand that somebody had someone living in the garage. I don’t,” said Shelly Ia. “I am following the rules. All I am asking is a reasonable way of going around this. If you want to do a monthly, bi-monthly inspection of my garage, I have nothing to hide. If I have something stored in there and you don’t like it, I’ll remove it.”
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Would love to see a test of a PODS being a tabernacle as a guaranteed first amendment right.
After all, like the murder of one’s unborn children, sacrificing animals is a Constitutionally protected right....
In order to subdivide a larger parcel in a rural area a landowner needs to build, file and get approved a development plan that MUST have a homeowner association and fees. It is a curse on all future use of the land.
Many start with the proviso: anything not allowed in these rules is forbidden! Real totalitarian stuff.
I'd tell that HOA that I'll leave my garage door open after you sign this contract that the HOA will insure the loss of my possessions and indemnify against any and all charges from children or adults who injure themselves on items in my garage.
Reading posts like yours, makes me glad we moved out of NJ 32 years ago!
Reason number 987 why I won’t ever live in an HOA community. That being said, define “open”. I would allow the garage door to be “opened” one inch. It is open and not securely closed.... just my way of thinking about it. :)
Or you could sit in your garage in your boxers, in a lawn chair with a cooler of beer next to you and have Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting from a boombox.
Since many would agree that one’s garage is part of the house and I’m allowed to eat a block of cheese while sitting on my couch naked, then it reasons that I could sit in my garage naked while eating said block of cheese during the hours of 8am-4pm. Like Shelly said, I’ve got nothing to hide.
Not always. I lived in an old neighborhood where houses held onto their market value because of the HOA rules.
In order to subdivide a larger parcel in a rural area a landowner needs to build, file and get approved a development plan that MUST have a homeowner association and fees. It is a curse on all future use of the land.
Zoning is local. I'd love to see the Florida statutes you refer to. Or a local statute that requires an HOA.
What’s wrong with a tractor trailer? I have a 20’ container out front and a bus in the yard.
Maybe that's the plan.....
We see drones slowly going through the streets and suspect they film for our HOA. Two neighbors have had inflatable pools—behind their fences where they couldn’t be seen from the road or other houses—and were fined for it.
Ironic too. Some homeowners associations mandate you keep your garage doors closed.
There’s nothing wrong with it in general, but in an urban or suburban neighborhood it may come with all kinds of problems.
Answer:
#1 Open Door and hang tarp inside!
#2 Buy a door poster showing “your” Ferrari, plane, parked inside!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uqv4ObcRq0
I am curious as to whether there is even an HOA rule that bans having someone live in your garage.
winner.
Ah yes.
The “a little bit of socialism is far better than property rights” hook.
It seems to me this would not be too difficult to overturn if most members are truly upset. They can go to the next board meeting and raise hell and threaten to recall any board member that does not vote to overturn it.
After all the board is elected by the homeowners.
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