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Originally Posted by doreen  So for a complex of say, 50 cars/parking spaces, would you have to pay 50x45 euros - surely not? |
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Originally Posted by Janet Yes! Mirador's is going to be thousands when they finally work out exactly how many parking spaces we have! And that's per annum! |
It's hard to believe, but the cost of one Vado Permanente sign at the exit of the underground garage to our complex will cost about 5,000 euros per year.
(Simplified version) When they get the plan of the complex, they look at the parking spaces using the entrance/exit, and simply multiply the cost by the number of cars using it. Not only that, but they have inspected the plans of our complex with 97 apartments, and claimed that some of the garages underground are large enough for 2 cars, so it's not just 97 times 45 euros, but around 108-120, depending on how many of the garages are actually big enough for 2 cars. This insane calculation then produces problems for the community. The logical thing would be to just pay the bill from community funds, but the smaller apartments with the smaller community charges are those with the larger garages, so some are saying that those with garages big enough for 2 cars should pay twice as much as others. This is ironic because most of them have transformed their large garages into additional bedrooms, so they can't park even one car, but they can't tell the Ayuntamiento that because they are all illegal extensions.
I think it's hilarious that the word
Ayuntamiento is derived from '
help'
Meanwhile, please feel free, anyone, to park in front of the exit - it is perfectly legal for you to do this. It is also perfectly legal for you to park in front of our rubbish bin house, so that the rubbish cannot be collected. We can't get a Vado Permanente for that, because it's not an exit.