Fwd: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19
From: maura deering (mauradeeringyahoo.com)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry - I forgot to indicate that I live at Jackson
Place Cohousing in Seattle, WA.

--- maura deering <mauradeering [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:13:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: maura deering <mauradeering [at] yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> 
> Norm,
> 
> To fully answer this question, you would need to
> look
> at your condo docs and your state's condominium
> statute. Without knowing specifics, I can only
> surmise
> that it sounds like some of the members are trying
> to
> convert common elements into limited common elements
> assigned to particular members. In Washington, this
> process requires a vote by the association.
> 
> Maura Deering
> http://www.raining.us/attorney.htm
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:40:52 -0700
> From: "O3C11N6G" <normangauss [at] charter.net>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Non-approved changes to common areas
> To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Message-ID: <022f01c7fb59$92b205b0$c1aeb018@Anne>
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> 
> I am co-owner of the common area of our condominium
> community, and I am
>  witnessing changes, by a few members, to the
> private
> usage and legal
>  definition of our common area without any
> permission
> from the general
>  community.
> 
> This group of people have unilaterally (without the
> community's
>  permission) declared that three general parking
> spaces (available to anybody
>  in the community) have been converted to private
> ones.  That is, a
>  portion of the common area has been declared off
> limits to the general
>  community.   In addition, three private parking
> spaces are being converted
>  to a workshop, again without permission from the
> community.
> 
> Are there any lawyers in cohousing land, who have
> some
> ideas on whether
>  what I have described is legal?
> 
> I am interested in finding out if other communities
> have ever had
>  changes made to the legal definition of the common
> area without formal
>  approval from every co-owner.
> 
> Every deed makes reference to a permanent exclusive
> parking space
>  defined on a map called the Condominium Plan.  The
> group I referred to above
>  wants me to believe that they can, without my
> permission, (1) create
>  new private parking spaces in the common area, and
> (2) create a workshop
>  out of existing permanent exclusive parking spaces.
> 
> The entire map of
>  private parking spaces is being changed, and I am
> not
> being ask for
>  approval.
> 
> Does this sound right?  I hope somebody get give me
> some perspective on
>  this state of affairs.  I have approached the
> members
> planning this
>  change, and they say that their lawyer says that it
> is OK, end of
>  discussion.  
> 
> If anybody knows whether similar things have been
> done
> before without
>  approval from the general membership, I would be
> interested in the
>  story.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Norm Gauss
> 
> 
>        
>
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