Queensland Strata Reform

Is anyone here in PC going to make a submission before the (new) dateline 1-Dec-2019?
It looks like it is more of some administrative/secretarial fine-tuning, not exactly a "Reform".
Where are the important issues that concern the general public, like pets, smoking, noise, carpark would be covered?

Is it true this has been going on for years and years?

Body Corporate and Community Management Regulations – Consultation on draft legislation | Department of Justice and Attorney-General

 

@Pumpkin , make a submission on all the things you think need to be reformed, including the ones you have mentioned, and maybe throw in some stuff about the Strata Corporation being able to have the ability to ban Short term Lets by Ordinary Resolution (or the Qld equivalent), due to noise, insurance premium issues, rubbish, parking, and the fact that owners have purchased a home, not a residence in a hotel or party house.

And forward your submission to all your buddies and neighbours in Qld Strata and get them to submit it as well.

Parking seems to be a constant issue everywhere. Imagine if the Owners Corp were able to create a by-law that allowed an occupant's vehicle to be towed with 72 hours notice to the lot owner, agent & tenant, from a common property space, where any damage liability resides with the lot owner, not the Owners Corp.

See how you go.

 

Thanks for your thoughts. I was thinking of doing that, but looking at the “Drafts”, nothing on those matters have been mentioned..... Quite strange to leave this in the open. So this can’t really be a good Consultation paper because it covers so few things....Hardly a Reform if you ask me....

 

So they haven't been mentioned, but you can mention them if you like, because if no-one says anything in your state, then general apathy will prevail, which could end badly.

And when you end up with some opportunistic offsite investor, who doesn't live there, but is happy for your strata committee or OC to incur costs having to deal with any of the aforementioned issues, at no charge to them, all the residents have to pick up the pieces.

Short term lets might be OK when the strata owner is onsite, but when it becomes a commercial enterprise, it's no longer part of the "sharing" economy, just an offloading of the downside, without "sharing" with the OC, any upside.