27 Jun 2009 12:00 AM:
Some of you may not yet have set up your communities or maybe have not yet had a meeting to discuss the affairs of your community.
A few words of advice; make sure that you actually know where your community boundaries are and exactly what your community area is before you attend your meetings and make a complete fool of yourself!
We all know that there are several separate communities known as Manzana 1, Manzana 2 etc.
The first thing you should already have learned from the legal documentation relating to the purchase of your property is that each is a “residential” community and with that comes the legal,social and financial responsibility of maintaining your community areas. If you did not want this responsibility then you should have purchased on an “urbanization” where all community areas are completely public and maintained by the council.
All the Manzanas are different because some are quad houses only and others are apartments and bungalows etc. so each has a different community area.
Obvious you may say, however, at the community meeting held this week on Manzana 4 it was abundantly clear that the majority of residents did not fully understand exactly what they had bought in to. For example many were quite indignant when the community area was referred to as “The Walkway” and did not understand why the points asked for adoption at the meeting with regard to the community area was referred to as “The Walkway”
Well, Manzana 4 consists of 2 rows of quad houses built around the walkway. This contains the shared access to the inner properties and their car parking spaces, 2 community seating areas and housing for the community’s telephone service, electricity metres TV cables and aerials. Clearly some of the residents were unaware that the only community area for Manzana 4 is, in fact, this walkway.
Many were saying they wanted the rules to cover the outside perimeter of Manzana 4; clearly they were not aware that the roads around the Manzanas are Public Highways and as such are outside our responsibility as communities.
So, before you complain about not being able to park outside your house for other cars, remember that it is a public highway and of course each outside property also has its own allocated parking space behind its own individual gate.
We can only hope that our neighbours respect the Public Highways in and around all of our communities. This of course includes the removal of pet faeces and observing the one way traffic system and urban speed limits.
If you are unsure about your own individual community you will need to get back to your legal contract, escritura documents and study them.
Finally, as a residential community, the residents are aware that some are indeed not Spanish residents and as such are not here all the time. Provision is made for you to pass any comments you have for meetings you cannot attend.(you should have your Administrators address) As for the rest who are Spanish residents and are here full time life carries on.
Community thread:
Community Association Meetings
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