Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

I live in a community in Northridge, CA. I have a 2-car garage and there are a total of 5 drivers residing in my home. My husband, myself, my 2 children and my mother. 2 of our cars are parked in the garage and we have been approved for (2) common area passes which allow your cars to be parked on the streets within the community. My Elderly mother, 68 years old has just recently moved with us due to the sour economy and she has a car herself too. I requested a common area parking pass for her but was denied and was told to look for an alternative parking. The area we live in soes not allow parking outside the community and the closest public parking (1 mile away) is a mini mall (Walmart) which would not allow parking a car overnight.

Can you please tell me what my rights are and what steps could I take to have 1 common area parking pass be approved?

Thank you,

Edna


Asked on 5/05/10, 3:58 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

You do not specify what kind of "community" you live in, but presumably if it has common areas it has CC&R's. I'm guessing that the CC&R's provide for how many parking passes each household may have. Your family circumstances and your choice to have five cars for five people doesn't give you a right to anything that everyone else in the community does not get. You also don't mention if your children are minors. If they are, maybe they don't need to be so spoiled that they each have a car. If they are adults, maybe they should make their own parking arrangements, not to mention living arrangements. Basically you are demanding an extra parking space that your fellow residents don't get, because you are too used to having too many cars. Don't expect your HOA to give you special privileges just so you and our children can be spoiled, over-privileged, selfish southern California gas hogs.

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Answered on 5/10/10, 4:39 pm


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