HOA considering restrictions on home-based businesses? (merged)

Re: HOA considering restrictions on home-based businesses?

Of course Mr. Baker believes businesses should be approved since it is his wife's childcare business that is in question.

 

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Hey, I am married and my wife lets me have an opinion every now and then!

I would hazard a guess that most Broadlands residents would have no objection to a home-based daycare as long as it is legal.

Your point?

 

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My point is that Mr. Baker is running for the HOA board but knowingly ran an illegal daycare for one year as noted earlier in this forum. Since it was also noted in this forum that there were 2 candidates with two different views, it needed to be noted who Mr. Baker was.

 

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just be sure you are there where it counts if you truly care about who is elected: THE MEETING TONIGHT!

 

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i'll be there to fight, for my right.... (wait for it) ...to PAAAAARTY!

 

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Would any of these proposed restrictions affect folks who work from home? On the days that I work from home, I sometimes have a co-worker stop by and I definitely have delivery guys, couriers, etc. coming and going. A few other people on my street work from home time to time, and nobody has ever complained. So, what will happen when these proposed restrictions go into effect?

 

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I think we need to be careful of over-regulating our neighborhood. Forget about the candidates for a second and let us think about the issues. Is the real issue home-based business or overcrowding on our streets? Do we really want our HOA to regulate or prohibit those homeowners working from home? If we start regulating home-based businesses, should we also look at telecommuters working from home or those selling Mary Kay? I do not really believe we want the HOA regulating this area. Enough other agencies (like Virginia Social Services) will regulate the businesses where appropriate.

If the issue bothering people is too much traffic, many of these streets are public streets. I think a conversation with your neighbors is a better solution than any attempt at regulation. Attempting to close down a home business that probably only brings traffic to the street twice a day when most people are working anyway seems a bit excessive. Using this same logic, we should close down Hillside Elementary because there are about 20 cars that park on the street behind the school and cause a nuisance every day at 2:30 on Thornhill Place. I am sure the residents of that street do not appreciate the traffic in the afternoon. Or if my neighbor has a girl scout meeting on a Sunday afternoon and has people parking in front of my house, should I report her to the HOA and have the HOA ban her from having meetings?

I only ask that the residents of Broadlands stop and really think about these issues. I have to believe we have more important issues to worry about. Let us not try to over-regulate our neighborhood.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

I'm sorry, but I do not buy into the "traffic" concern. I think some people are probably using it as crutch when it is most likely "other concerns" that are bothering them.

It is several cars twice a day for a very short period of time for cryin out loud! As for speeding, yeah, be concerned. But are some of you more sensitized to it BECAUSE of the day care? Do some of your neighbors speed too but it is OK because they live there? Just some thoughts.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

Increased traffic from the daycare is a concern when there are only 18 houses on this street (cul-de-sac) with 30+ children. With 5 children attending the daycare at the same time that is 20 additional car trips per day on the street that otherwise would not see any traffic at all.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

Just so I understand the problem completely...

Right now there are 5 additional cars in the morning on the street for 5-10 minutes. Then at 11:30 - 12 (when most kids are at school and adults are working), there are 5 more additional cars on the street.

Is that the traffic concern we are discussing?

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

5 kids x 1 car per kid = 5 cars
5 cars X 2 trips = 10 trips a day.

Plus in that article on the net (If that's the same home). One mother says she lives so close they just walk to the daycare.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

Ahh OK. You counting a car going to the home as one trip and the car leaving as another? So that's 20 "cars" going back and forth?

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

Slippery slope with the traffic thing. I see traffic on my street every day when people line up on the side of the road to drop their kids off at the bus. Maybe we should ban school buses too?

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

with that logic MISTER, you should be living in a cul-de-sac! :genius:

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

I do live on a cul-de-sac and on sometimes I have over 20 cars parked there for "walkers" picking their children up from Hillside. In fact everyday I see cars parked on my street for at least 15 minutes and they have been know to block driveways, mailboxes and fire hydrants.

I guess it is ok since it is a public school and I should have known better if I bought a house on a street adjacent to a school.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

WARNING

I feel your pain. We lived on Bankbarn Terrace (townhouses by Community center) for 7 years and quite often were impacted by traffic for those parents who MUST drive their kids WHO SHOULD WALK TO SCHOOL!

We had 3 neighbors who would drop their kids off and it was only a couple hundred yards to the school. I can understand bad weather or extreme cold but JEESH, it was/is ridiculous!

 

Re: HOA considering restrictions on home-based businesses?

jmudave-
Question. If you had, say, a Mary Kay rep who had a website that advertised having meetings at their house every Tuesday. Resulting in other Mary Kay salespeople as well as strangers parking 20-30 cars on your street once a week for these 2 hour meetings......would you consider that something that needs to be regulated?

 

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Is 20-30 cars realistic? I would imagine most Mary Kay reps would think they'd died and gone to heaven if even 10 people showed up for their meeting. Those numbers are more in line with having a backyard barbeque with your friends, which I'm sure you wouldn't want to have regulated. I can't imagine that 20-30 visitor cars in your neighborhood would happen too often and those could be addressed on an individual basis.

 

Re: Jeremy Baker running for the HOA board

Yes, you can choose your location but you can't choose your neighbors.

And if a neighbor chooses to have a legal and allowable (by HOA) home business that generates some very minor traffic concerns for very brief times of the day, then so be it.

Maybe that is why the daycare people bought in a cul-de-sac too.