The courts made the right decision. Its sad that the subdivision mafias due this. We looked at homes in several sub divisions but after reading all of their restrictions we could not picture ourselves being cookie cutter residensts. Our five acres in the county is perfect and I can look out my back door and see my fiver.

It is a very narrow decision. It does nothing to overturn any HOA or other parking regulations regarding RVs. The ruling actually just affirmed that a Judge's ruling that the family in question had special health needs that made the RV a necessity and therefore a variance should be granted to the codes was within the power and discretion of that judge. What happened is a judge granted a variance. An appeals court said that was overstepping the judges authority and the Supreme court of Louisiana overturned the appeals court and said that the variance was within the judge's legal authority. It was actually not a ruling on HOAs and parking regulations, it was a ruling as to what a judge can and cannot legally decide.

I thought you were given the rules in writing and signed to acknowledge those rules before you bought into an HOA. I dont see how anyone can complain about what they themselves agreed to. I may just not understand it though.

IMHO it was a bogus decision.When you sign up to live in a HOA you agree to abide by their rules. The rules that everybody agrees on. (That is why I would never live in an HOA controlled area.)If they can't abide by the rule they agreed upon they need to move to a place where there are no such rules.This is just another take on the old move next to an airport and then complain about the airplane noise IMHO. :S

Halmfamily wrote:The courts made the right decision. Its sad that the subdivision mafias due this. We looked at homes in several sub divisions but after reading all of their restrictions we could not picture ourselves being cookie cutter residensts. Our five acres in the county is perfect and I can look out my back door and see my fiver.I also owned 5 acres in the county once. Besides my fiver, I could see 4 single wide mobile homes from my property. No codes so each had 4 cars (1 ran and the other 3 were on jacks). There are trade-offs to everything.

20K and 2.5 yr fight secures a win over HOA for RV parking

bid_time
Nomad II
Oct 02, 2014
hypocrite - where's your compassion just because someone has a different opinion then you?
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 02, 2014
seems to me that Gerald was an inventor, etc., and reasonably intelligent. wonder why he couldn't have bought a 2 ft shorter RV to be modified. can't identify the 3636 lake lynn drive house on google earth to see his exact layout.
bumpy
toedtoes
Explorer III
Oct 02, 2014
Bumpyroad wrote:
seems to me that Gerald was an inventor, etc., and reasonably intelligent. wonder why he couldn't have bought a 2 ft shorter RV to be modified. can't identify the 3636 lake lynn drive house on google earth to see his exact layout.
bumpy

We don't know when the RV was originally bought and for what purpose. They may have bought it for trips only and THEN decided to modify it for their son's needs.

My personal guess is that they never thought about zoning, HOA regulations, etc., when they bought and modified it. Let's face it, most folks don't know enough to know they don't know enough and that they should be some research and ask questions before jumping in. Happens a lot, and sometimes ends up in a courtroom somewhere.
NJRVer
Explorer
Oct 02, 2014
2012Coleman wrote:
The Article wrote:
The fact that the Cronleys' property does not accommodate (by a mere 2 feet) a vehicle specifically adapted to improve the quality of life for their son, who has terminal degenerative diseases, presents very specific and unique circumstances," Rothschild wrote. "These circumstances constitute a hardship and present a practical difficulty for Joey and his family.

rockhillmanor wrote:
This family truly had a handicap family member and wanted to USE his condition to benefit themselves, just sad.

NJRVer wrote:
So much for them having to have it sit there for "emergency" in case the electricity goes out.
The husband also uses it to go on business trips.:R

Scamming the system.
I'm sure you and the other circling wolves without an ounce of comapssion will all be happier when this young mans ilness ends his life, and you can pounce. That's what is really sad.

Here's to Karma making sure you get yours...

And here's to Karma for him telling a lie that they needed the rig sitting there just in case.
dodge_guy
Explorer II
Oct 03, 2014
NJRVer wrote:
2012Coleman wrote:
The Article wrote:
The fact that the Cronleys' property does not accommodate (by a mere 2 feet) a vehicle specifically adapted to improve the quality of life for their son, who has terminal degenerative diseases, presents very specific and unique circumstances," Rothschild wrote. "These circumstances constitute a hardship and present a practical difficulty for Joey and his family.

rockhillmanor wrote:
This family truly had a handicap family member and wanted to USE his condition to benefit themselves, just sad.

NJRVer wrote:
So much for them having to have it sit there for "emergency" in case the electricity goes out.
The husband also uses it to go on business trips.:R

Scamming the system.
I'm sure you and the other circling wolves without an ounce of comapssion will all be happier when this young mans ilness ends his life, and you can pounce. That's what is really sad.

Here's to Karma making sure you get yours...

And here's to Karma for him telling a lie that they needed the rig sitting there just in case.

I don't believe they lied!
NJRVer
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
dodge guy wrote:
NJRVer wrote:
2012Coleman wrote:
The Article wrote:
The fact that the Cronleys' property does not accommodate (by a mere 2 feet) a vehicle specifically adapted to improve the quality of life for their son, who has terminal degenerative diseases, presents very specific and unique circumstances," Rothschild wrote. "These circumstances constitute a hardship and present a practical difficulty for Joey and his family.

rockhillmanor wrote:
This family truly had a handicap family member and wanted to USE his condition to benefit themselves, just sad.

NJRVer wrote:
So much for them having to have it sit there for "emergency" in case the electricity goes out.
The husband also uses it to go on business trips.:R

Scamming the system.
I'm sure you and the other circling wolves without an ounce of comapssion will all be happier when this young mans ilness ends his life, and you can pounce. That's what is really sad.

Here's to Karma making sure you get yours...

And here's to Karma for him telling a lie that they needed the rig sitting there just in case.

I don't believe they lied!

Then why does he take it for his own work?
Doesn't do the kid much good if the electric goes out in the house and the father is off somewhere in the motorhome.
TOOBOLD
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
Yes, he can take it for work but the article doesn't mention if their son also goes with him.I'm sure no one here has taken a business trip with their families coming along.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
TOOBOLD wrote:
Yes, he can take it for work but the article doesn't mention if their son also goes with him.I'm sure no one here has taken a business trip with their families coming along.

It's getting just a little deep in here.
bumpy
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
shouldn't the title be corrected? no win over HOA as yet that has not been settled??? win was over county zoning which is trumped by HOA rules. the HOA can fine him $$$$ a day until he comes into compliance.
bumpy
2012Coleman
Explorer II
Oct 03, 2014
bid_time wrote:
hypocrite - where's your compassion just because someone has a different opinion then you?
Maybe you should look up the definition of big words before using them.