For the benefit of those who may not be that familiar with courtyard villa neighborhoods....they have unique parking issues.
For the most part, they have small garages and short, curved driveways and the streets are too narrow for on-street parking. Residents are suppose to park in their driveway or in their garage...nowhere else. It works pretty well if you only have one car and a couple carts, but for two cars and one or more golf carts, it's difficult to jockey the vehicles around. It's the main downside of living in a CYV and people who buy a CYV know that upfront.
CYV neighborhoods have one small parking area which contains about 6 parking spots. This area is designated for guest parking, and it could include a guest who resides elsewhere in The Villages, so having a guest pass displayed in the window wouldn't work for all guests.
The parking area is too far away for the majority of residents to conveniently use on a daily basis. The problems arise when residents that live close to the guest parking area use it as their personal primary parking spot, or else when a resident from anywhere in the neighborhood uses it as permanent parking for a vehicle that they rarely use. Allowing residents to have "first priority" would result in the the same vehicles parked there all the time and there would never be a spot available for guests. Besides, it was never intended to be resident parking.
In answer to another question earlier in the thread, community watch wouldn't have any way of knowing if the cars belonged to owners or not. As Mikeod pointed out, the streets and parking areas in CYV neighborhoods are not public and they are maintained by The Villages. So the parking issue is complaint driven and handled like any other deed restriction violation. The signage won't change anything other than making it more obvious to the violators that they are violating their own deed restrictions.
This is not even an issue in my CYV neighborhood, all of the residents respect the rules and their neighbors' rights. But I know for a fact that it is a big issue in some other neighborhoods. As of right now District 7 is the only district that will be putting up signs.
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