A Florida homeowners’ association (HOA) is using a legal loophole to bypass a state law and prevent homeowners in its community from parking their pickup trucks or work vehicles in their driveways. Per an archaic HOA rule written in 1976, residents of The Meadows subdivision in Sarasota are banned from parking their vehicles at home between the hours of 11 p.m.
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Instead, he pays $500 a year to park his truck overnight in a fenced-in lot 0.8 miles away — on top of the HOA fees and the mortgage he pays to live in the community. MacIntyre agreed to follow the HOA’s rules and regulations when he bought his home in 2019.
If he did park his truck on his driveway, The Meadows’ nightly safety patrol could issue him with a warning letter, fines or even tow his vehicle. Tired of the inconvenience of making two trips a day to drop off and collect his pickup truck, MacIntyre was “ecstatic” when he learned of Florida House Bill 1203, which prohibits HOAs f.