Ways to handle parking issues in an apartment
While community living has its own set of apparent advantages, with the good comes the bad. There are certain small issues that can sometimes be quite irritating when it comes to living together in a community. One such common issue that is often a talking point between members of the housing community is parking and the woes it can generate.
Common parking issues
There is no denying the fact that parking can get a major problem in many community townships and apartments. The fact that there are more vehicles than the allocated parking space is sure to get translated into parking related woes at some point or the other.
The common parking issues faced by almost all residents at some point or the other include other residents parking in areas designated for them or perhaps visitors parking their cars randomly in a no parking zone in the township. People having multiple cars per household have become the norm and is a silent contributing factor towards effective parking management. Many people buy parking place or only one vehicle in a house which has more than a single vehicle. The other vehicles are then parked randomly which causes inconvenience to the other residents.
Tips to handle parking issues
Community living is all about give and take. If you park a car wrongly knowingly or unknowingly, it can come back to haunt you especially and can be quite detrimental especially when you are in an emergency situation. With a little parking management one can spread awareness in the housing society that can help resolve all such parking related issues. An effective communication program that reflects the parking management agenda needs to be given prime importance by the underlying Residents Welfare Associations or RWA’s.
Fines can be put into place when residents park their cars randomly in places assigned to some other resident. While fining a fellow society resident may sound harsh but sometimes a financial penalty is the best way to educate the member as well as act as deterrence for the future.
Residents must make it a point to educate their visitors and guests the parking guidelines of the society and help them to park their vehicles in the guest parking areas rather than on other parts of the society. While guests or visitors have no idea about the society parking rules, the host must take full responsibility for any wrong parking done by his or her guests. This may sound like a little inconvenient in the start but it is beneficial for all concerned in the long run.
People or residents with multiple cars must be advised to either purchase dedicated parking slots for all vehicles or park their cars outside the housing society to avoid any inconvenience to other members who have paid for their parking slots.
And importantly the resident’s association should clearly educate and instruct the watch man to take care of wrong parking and report immediately to the concerned if something is wrong.
