Douglas County HOA enforcing speed limits in community | 9news.comROXBOROUGH – If you drive through a private community in southwest Douglas County, don’t be surprised to see someone holding a radar gun on behalf of the Homeowner’s Association. Days later – if you are caught speeding – you may get a letter in the mail saying you owe the HOA money.
Feud over sign could force Fairfax’s Olde Belhaven to sell square“Need I say more! This would lead to chaos,” a neighbor fretted in an e-mail about the precedent that would be set if the sign wasn’t removed. “Our property values would be put at risk.” Such HOA disputes are as suburban as cul-de-sacs and two-car garages, but few metastasize into legal battles that spend years in the courts, break legal ground and bankrupt the HOA.
HOA Installs Radar, Issues Speeding TicketsWith no one but themselves to police the speed limits of their gated a community, a homeowners association in Colorado has set up a radar system and begun issuing tickets to speeders. Drivers caught violating the max. 30 mph speed limit in the community will be subject for fines from anywhere from $15 to $100, depending on how fast they are driving.
Richard White: Can an association legally enforce parking rules?Q. Our HOA board is having a difficult time enforcing the rule of parking on our narrow streets in our community. We have put out notices and signs about towing cars but we do not have “No Parking” signs along the roads. We are concerned that firetrucks and ambulances cannot get through with the parked cars.
St. Johns County homeowner sued over unkempt lawnA lawn care dispute in a subdivision off Nocatee Parkway is headed for a courtroom. The homeowners association in Walden Chase is suing a resident who refuses to mow her yard or trim her hedges. Neighbors complain the overgrown grass is making the sidewalk hazardous and is attracting rats and snakes.
Pink Playhouse Controversy May Be Headed To CourtCredit: WJBF Staff It is a pink playhouse that is the center of a neighborhood controversy…that is on track to be settled in a Columbia County Superior Courtroom. Last Christmas, Becky Rogers-Peck gave her 4-year-old granddaughter the bubble gum pink playhouse, but since then, a few of her neighbors have complained about the bright pink paint, which Rogers-Peck refuses to change.
Drought? What drought? Homeowners fined for brown lawnsA homeowners association in Denver has issued hundred of tickets to residents this year for failing to keep up their lawns in the drought.
John C. Goede: Can the board make a no-smoking rule for inside an owner’s unit?Editor’s note: Attorneys at Goede & Adamczyk, PLLC respond to questions about Florida community association law. With offices in Naples and Miami, the firm represents community associations throughout Florida and focuses on condominium and homeowner association law, real estate law, litigation, estate planning and business law.