Your interpretation please.....

Our CC&R's state under "driveway" that a driveway must be made of concrete or brick. We have a neighbor who continues to park his car up in the grass of his front lawn. Although our CC&R's does not clearly come out and say, No, you can not park a vehicle in your front yard, but my interpretation would be that a driveway, which is where you would park a vehicle, must be made of brick or concrete, therefore parking your vehicle on grass would be a violation.

This would not be a problem if it was once in a while, but the car is being left for days at a time. Sometimes parked on Fridays, and not moved until Monday morning. We have homes for sale in the neighborhood, If I drove through looking at homes and saw people parking cars up in their front yards??? It just looks bad.

Opinions please?

Mindy: Check with your local zoning codes and such.

In our community, it is illegal for people to park on a grass surface. The ordinance (not in our HOA, but in our local community) is that vehicles MUST be parked on a solid surface.

AND, since all external construction, including concrete pads, must be approved by our Architectural Committee per our CC&Rs, then we can regulate where parking "pads" are placed, if any.

Again, this is per our local county ORDINANCE, so when someone is violation, all we need to do is report the address to our local Inspections, Permits and Licensing Enforcement board.

"Motor vehicles. Except as provided for in other regulations, no inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicle shall be parked, kept or stored on any premises, and no vehicle shall at any time be in a state of major disassembly, disrepair, or in the process of being stripped or dismantled. Painting of vehicles is prohibited on residentially zoned or used property. A vehicle of any type is permitted to undergo major overhaul, including body work, provided that such work is performed inside a structure or similarly enclosed area designed and approved for such purposes. ***NOTE THIS PART OF THE CODE*** All motor vehicles on any premises, other than agricultural land must be parked on a hard and durable surface, such as asphalt, brick or concrete or any surface permitted pursuant to§156.052 (C)."

A town (no HOA in sight) to the north of me in AR just past a no-parking on the grass ordinance. I think they also put a limit on the number of cars that can park in the driveway.

I don't know where you are in NC, but they have lots of parking issues like yours. The city of Charlotte passed a "no parking on yard" law a few years past. So, look at your city ordinances and laws. If not, get the Board to amend and add parking regulations that cover specific nuciances that may exist that impact the community.

Should be To: Mindy

Brian,
We have a couple of Swing Bridges (meaning they open by a section of the bridge swinging open perpendicular).
Now when this bridge is open, it is closed, and when it is closed, it is open. For traffic on the Roadway. The inverse is true for traffic on the waterway. Do you park your boat on a waterway, no, you park your boat in a slip on a dock. We park airplanes in a hanger, tied them down on an apron, and drive them over a runway to take off and follow a route or flight plane. And then we come in for a landing.
Go figure!