‘People say it looks great’ homeowners fume after HOA sent note banning driveway’s look – it’s been that way for 6 years | 6503BIK | 2024-05-02 12:08:01
'People say it looks great' homeowners fume after HOA sent note banning driveway's look – it's been that way for 6 years | 6503BIK | 2024-05-02 12:08:01
FURIOUS homeowners have slammed their HOA after they sent a note around banning a particular driveway look.
Locals at Sun City Grand in Surprise, Arizona were up in arms after their homeowners association reportedly demanded side borders be removed from painted driveways in 2017.
A City Grand Community Association Management's Architectural Review Committee found that 223 out of the 10,000 homes had non-compliant driveway borders and had not been granted approval from developers.
Driveway borders often resemble rectangles or bricks which are a different color than that of the home driveway.
The committee has sent letters demanding the homes paint over the borders – prompting backlash from other residents.
"Why do you have to create a problem?" local Brent Kehrein fumed.
"I mean, it's not like someone has junk vehicles sitting in their yard or in their driveway and there's oil spilled all over the driveway (and) it looks like c**p.
"We don't have that in (Sun City) Grand. It's just not like that."
Neighbors Michael and Karen Giel also hit out at their HOA for the order.
Karen said: "I don't understand. We've had this (driveway) for six years.
"People compliment us. People say it looks great.
"And I don't know why after six years somebody has taken a picture and said it's not acceptable."
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> Legal expert Mark Bainbridge argued that residents who have had the driveway borders for four years or more may be beyond the statute of limitations.
"The case law says that architectural approval cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously withheld," he said.
"And so I think that they would have the argument that if they had applied at the time they installed it, the association would have had to approve it because they approved hundreds of other ones identical to it."
The U.S Sun has reached out to Sun City HOA for comment.
It comes after one man was ordered not to park his vehicle in his driveway after concerns about his commercial markings lowering property values.
He had to park his work van miles away to appease the association.
Joey Albritton, the owner of a plumbing business in Houston, Texas, lived in the Summerwood HOA subdivision for two years before starting his business, Pleasant Lanier Plumbing.
"This is how I feed my family, this is what pays my mortgage, and this is how I pay my HOA dues, as well," Albritton told ABC affiliate KTRK-TV.
"So, if I can't get out here and make money doing what I know best, then I can't pay my bills."
His HOA told him that his work van lowered the value of surrounding properties and disturbed residents.
"It's frustrating to not be able to park my own vehicle in my own driveway," he added.
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