Parking trucks after 1July
 

Hi,

I am planning to move within the next 18 months to the villages. So today I ran across an article about parking in HOA's, HB-1203. As I tow a toy hauler RV at 20K pounds with a 1 ton Dully. Wondering if I would now be able to park this truck in my driveway.
Ken Lohmann

Read your dead restrictions, most allow for smaller trucks (around 1500 pound) capability to be parked in the driveway. IMHO your truck may be too large.

I believe he is talking about a recently passed bill that will allow people to parking their vehicle in their driveway as long as it is not classified as a commercial vehicle. Here is the part I believe he is talking about. I think this bill goes into effect on July 1.

(b) A property owner or a tenant, a guest, or an invitee
918 of the property owner from parking his or her personal vehicle,
919 including a pickup truck, in the property owner's driveway, or
920 in any other area at which the property owner or the property
921 owner's tenant, guest, or invitee has a right to park as
922 governed by state, county, and municipal regulations. The
923 homeowners' association documents, including declarations of
924 covenants, articles of incorporation, or bylaws, may not
925 prohibit, regardless of any official insignia or visible
designation, a property owner or a tenant, a guest, or an
927 invitee of the property owner from parking his or her work
928 vehicle, which is not a commercial motor vehicle as defined in
929 s. 320.01(25), in the property owner's driveway.

This bill amends section 468 of the Florida code which deals with HOAs. The Villages does not have a section 468 HOA, the Villages has a section 190 CDD. This bill does not affect the Villages.

As mentioned previously, take a look at your deed restrictions and the ARC manual for your District to see what is and is not allowed.

Check your deed restriction, but I think in general, an RV 72 hours.

As stated previously, no HOA in The Villages.

You can park a 3/4 ton in your driveway but 1 ton duallys are not allowed. And that's a fact jack.

Unless you buy in village that allows it no. Horse farms lots (around 500K) and couple more like Harmsowood? I know Harmsowood allows RV garages.

Only park 1/2 truck in my neighborhood village.

Trucks parked in driveways……just add so much.

There is some controversy about it but you may be able to park it on the street in some villages. The streets are controlled by the county. Even if you legally can park in the street your neighbors would be very unhappy. That doesn’t make for a peaceful retirement environment.

Since my husband & I actually had this issue…you may have any RV on the street in front of your home for 3 nights in a row, to load or unload. You are NOT allowed to park a Duelly in your driveway day in & day out. I’m not sure of any new ordinance. As far as the street…anyone can park any vehicle there. Contrary to popular belief, that’s legal. The problem lies not with the local ordinances…it lies with your neighbors. If someone doesn’t like what you do they can report you & make life miserable for you. The good news is that NOW they can’t file a complaint anonymously, so you can find out who the squeaky hinge is. 😉

It just depends on how quickly you get warned and then possibly towed. If not that, then if you want your neighbors to hate the sight of you whenever your outside. Entitlement attitude comes with a price.

we do not have HOA'S in the villages

Just wanted to note that in some CDDs its illegal to park in the street. Not aggressively enforced, but when complaints are received they do ticket.

Some recent news stories that cite the April 2019 parking ordinance:

Link below should begin with the local online news.com site that cannot be mentioned.

/2023/03/13/fenney-putt-play-era-parking-prohibition-causing-headaches-for-villagers/

Grease the skids with the Developer prior to T V owning the neighborhood and ARC control and you can build RV garages, huge rec room/garage extensions, additional garages, and pools to cover almost every square inch of your property. Pretty much anything you want put up on your buildable land lot line in the "old" DeLuna.

One can see the "cabana" (RV garage) near the Water Lily Rec center area. One can also birdcage your whole back yard.
Straight across from the Water Lily Golf Cart bridge you can see the second anomaly of DeLuna housing designs that seem to defy ARC rules but doesn't. Wording is everything when implementing architectural design to fit ARC rules. Lots of perks if you plan ahead.

Is it what you know or who you know in T V that matters when making Dreams come true - asking for a friend.

One of the things I like about The Villages is that while there may at times be workers or visitors parking at the curb in the daytime in residential districts, there are virtually no vehicles parked along the curb at night. That looks better, and it’s safer, especially for pedestrians. I know last night I nearly hit two pedestrians crossing the street in my neighborhood. They were crossing at an unlighted crosswalk wearing black clothes, and they were nearly invisible, as they were in the street but not in the beam of my lights. Fortunately, I was coming to a full stop at the stop sign and stopped before the crosswalk, but it was a shock for all of us. If they were stepping around a big truck parked in the street, who knows?

Truck
 

Sounds too big for a driveway as creates safety issue for neighbors wanting to see to back out of driveway. Lots of storage places to park this vehicle. Thanks.

You can't park on the street if your village is within Wildwood which quite a few of them are.

Streets
 

If Wildwood maintains the streets, then they make the parking rules. If the county maintains the street then the county makes the rules.

That, tragic as it would be, is Darwinism at work. On their part, not yours. Only clueless fools (and thieves) walk around in the street at uncontrolled intersections in wholly dark clothing at night. Especially in a neighborhood that is world-renown for elderly folks and their naturally occurring poor eyesight.

We live in new DeLuna so I know exactly what property you’re talking about as we pass that street regularly to and from the Water Lily bridge. We’ve been scratching our heads wondering how they’ve gotten approval for the many huge additions they’ve done, including the RV garage that has no driveway. Now they have a pool being built, which will have a huge bird cage eventually, which is fine, but WOW we’ve never seen an average sized property with so many additions crammed onto it as this one. It defies Villages CDD logic, lol. It does seem like a “who you know” kind of situation. 😉

Who maintains the roads in Fenney or Deluna?

In some CDDs complaints are still anonymous, and in the City of Wildwood it’s against the law to park your vehicle on the street overnight. Just a couple of corrections to your comment. I’m personally so grateful for our wonderful neighbors who park all of their vehicles in their garages making our street so nice and attractive, and easy to navigate since the streets are very narrow. We definitely lucked out in that respect.

My truck doesn't fit in the garage either and I've been parking it in the driveway for almost a year.

I see many others with their trucks in the driveway as well. All sizes.

As long as it isn't a commercial style vehicle you are fine.

And there's no HOA here

This is something I have been thinking about. What do people do who have a single car garage, but want to have a golf cart and an automobile?

:1rotfl::1rotfl::clap2:

if you haven't chosen a home yet, speak with theVillages powers-that-be, & have a rep direct you. get an HONEST one, i love Beth Pope, her info was valid & correct, we are very happy with her

even a 1 car garage in a 2bed, 2bath villa has room for a cart. not much room for anything else, but it can be done.

Not the new house
 

We have looked at some of the new builds that have a one car garage (the house is called a tide pool) does Not fit a car and a cart.
It’s shame , we like the the floor plan

We are not a HOA.