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Originally Posted by sprio
Our HOA has the same rule, but it is unenforceable because the streets are public.
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Originally Posted by KC911
I was sorta wondering about this aspect too...
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We are unincorporated.
We are our government.
The community is run by a Fresh Water Improvement District which is a board made up of elected residents. It runs and manages all municipal functions / infrastructure. They are separate from but work in tandem with the HAO. Think of it as The House, The Senate, and our management company is Executive.
Back in the day we had the neighboring towns POPO practicing aggressive revenue generation in the community.
Stupid stuff like 1 mph over a posted limit or not coming to a full stop at stop signs even if you did. They’d say “it didn’t look like a full stop” which led to “The Lantana Bounce”. To avoid tickets you had to stop in a way that caused obvious nose dive and settling after.
One day someone figured out that none of the tickets were enforceable, the towns that issued them had no legal way to enforce the payment or collection of fines but they could accept “donations”.
Residents started tearing up tickets on the spot suggesting the cops go f themselves.
Once “donations” dropped the cops just stopped showing up because it was no longer profitable.
Well now that all traffic signage was effectively nothing more than “a recommendation” the place turned into the Indy 500.
To get things back under control we had to cede enforcement powers to the County Sheriff which required us getting signatures from 50% + of the residents which meant going door to door for months until we had enough.
So long story short, while the roads / streets are technically public they are public roads owned by our effectively private government.
It’s a weird structure anywhere else but not all that uncommon here.
Takes a while to wrap your head around it.