Oregon HOA won't let bus pick up special needs girl

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Oregon homeowner’s association refuses to let bus come into neighborhood to pick up a girl with special needs: lawsuit

The HOA's defense that the neighborhood woul be burdened with unnecessary stress and strain upon the road is complete garbage.I think the young girl deserves to be picked up by the school bus in said neighbhorhood, as doing anything contradictory to that would not only be malignant but, absolutely dangerous onto the welfare of the young school girl as whole. Also that the HOA President happens to be Republican speaks of several things to me, for where I live territorial wise, the idiot managing things in my part of the world has cut/slashed funding that would have otherwise helped a great many autistic persons from youngsters,teenagers,adults, and their parents etc.

I see their point. It's a private street; why should they let any motor vehicle on their property that they don't consent to? It's not a public road.

IMHO the lions' share of HOAs are quasi-fascist, 90% of them give the other 10% a bad rep.

The streets are considered common areas and the ADA applies there.

Some of these HOAs think they are sovereign nations. They are not.

Gated communities are the hot new thing in some parts of the state I live in. The public/private school buses pick up and drop off right outside the gate. If your kid has a broken leg and uses crutches, there is a service that will take you kid to the bus stop. You have to provide a medical necessity note.

News mom's position is a bit weaker. The child is mobile. If the kid is a runner, it doesn't matter if it's the front of the house or a stop. My dentist treats a child with ASD from the above gated community. That kid either gets walked to the stop or driven by somone to the stop. It's a PITA for the parent/nanny, but that's what you get when you buy into a million dollar per house community. All this BS is explained in the contract.

One friend of mine has a HOA but not gated. The heaviest thing that can drive on their street is a garbage truck. Big RVs and construction type work has to be okayed by the HOA. You can't just decide to repour your cement patio, and have a cement truck show up.

Her street was repaved with an assessment of $30K per property owned. Everyone has to pay it, or their is lien on the property. She knew that when she bought the property that street repairs are divided up.

While I feel bad for mom, they knowingly moved into that nightmare. You buy a house, there is a f**kton of paper work you sign. The weight restriction (that's what this is really about) in buried in that pile of gibberish. READ THOSE CONTRACTS!

why would anybody live under such provincial tyranny?

This is ridiculous, IMO. Unless the streets are so poorly designed & paved that they can't take the weight of the bus, streets should be used, especially in service to a neighbourhood child.

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It didn't work out too well for a different HOA in an Oregon case last year:

Homeowners association settles RV dispute for $300k

I live in a small condominium development. The average home value is a little over $200K, and we are all middle-class people. There is an HOA, as in most condo associations. I don't find anything fascistic about it at all. We have private streets (we pay for the maintenance ourselves) and I never have seen a school bus here. The only issue we have had with our private streets is keeping construction vehicles for other, nearby communities from taking a shortcut through here; then our board has to call the contractor and ask them not to use our private streets.

“Private streets,” is literally a foreign concept to me. AFAIK, there’s no such thing in Canada - save for maybe some dirt roads/access roads on some farmer’s vast acreage. Weeeeeeird that HOA’s own their own roads. Also, no such thing as an HOA for detached houses - they only exist for condos & townhouses and are called a “Strata,” or “Strata Council,” and are responsible for shared amenity rooms, the roof and building envelope, parking lot/parkade, gardening/landscape maintenance/snow removal from sidewalks etc but never roads. Some strata fees also include natural gas so people just heat their home via their gas fireplace. Some have concierge services downtown now. Roads, though, are all publicly funded and maintained after the builders pay to put them in as a cost of doing business for a new detached single family home development, which means no BS bickering about disabled kids getting picked up by school buses.

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Can the mother just bring her daughter outside their neighborhood and have the bus pick her up there? I've seen plenty of moms do this.