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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
My courtyard villa deed restriction document says:
"No owner of a homesite shall park, store, or keep any vehicle except wholly within his driveway, garage or other non-visitor parking spaces."
I called District Property Management who said that it means that parking on the street is not allowed. But, when I spoke with Community Standards, they told me that they do not enforce that rule. So, go figure.
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they can't enforce it. The language is not specific enough to enforce, much like all the language in the docs. Federal standards go by exactness not vague. If you don't want something to happen then it must be specifically stated. Many organizations make this mistake in their governing documents and then some board at some time later gets caught with the incident and are stuck on how to fix it.
The way you read docs like this is look for what it doesn't say. Many years ago, our sons wanted one of those goalzilla basketball setups. (huge in concrete, etc) In reading the docs of the community I found it said "not on garage roof", "portable on driveway", yet it never said you could not permanently install on the side of your driveway. In it went, and there was nothing anyone could do to force removal of it ever