KTNV ABC,Channel 13,Las Vegas,Nevada,News,Weather,Sports,Entertainment,KTNV.com,Action News .:. Contact 13 Investigation: Red curbs in one Southwest neighborhood: "Builder KB homes put in streets in the development that are too narrow for emergency vehicles to get through if cars are parked on both sides.
Even so, homeowners have been allowed to park on their street for at least a year.
'They've given us no alternatives for parking,' says neighbor Dara Jackson.
On one day, the red stripe went down, neighbors went to bed and when they woke up, 'We come out here getting ready to go to work and the whole side of our street is vacant,' says another neighor, Gladis Aguiler. Eleven cars were gone with no explanation. 'Our first thought was that our car had been Stolen,' Minkler explains. But they hadn't been stolen. Every car parked on their street had been towed away just hours after the curb was painted."
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Monica Caruso sent this along. Whoever is responsible, the bottom line is that, as usual, nobody involved in the process has any respect for the rights of individual homeowners. Not the developer, not the city, not the police, not the tow company...nobody. And that is the essential, unchanging fact of common interest housing.
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As you have noted, this isn't about housing per se but rather the privatization of local government. Here the HOA is more like a private parking lot or shopping mall, which is consistent with structuring local government like a concessionaire. Is this the policy we truly want?
Remember all traffic jams start at city hall and this case is no different. The municipality new or should have known that emergency vehicles could not pass when vehicles were parked on both sides and should have prohibited parking from day one. Finally the authority who made the change whether it was the municipality or HOA had a duty to provide a notice of the change before no parking was marked.
What owners also need to understand is that developers like KB and many others use parking as a marketing tool to both encourage sales to a bigger home or to save construction costs which too often goes to far. Like in our HOA, the double car garages were to small to fit some SUV’s, vans and common pickups as my neighbor found out the hard way by 3 inches. Then you have the HOA culture that also doesn’t like vehicles and when owners can’t park on their driveway, on the public street or park it in their own garage. Owners are placed in an impossible situation that should never be allowed by municipal leaders who also just happen to be the ones who mandate the HOAs creation.
Personal transportation is not an option in the US, it’s a necessity since public transportation is limited compared to Europe and in large cities and it provides a livelihood for many as well.
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