{"id":38895,"date":"2025-09-23T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38895\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:20:08","slug":"sydney-mother-pushes-strata-to-allow-toy-convertible-in-bondi-carpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38895\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney mother pushes strata to allow toy convertible in Bondi carpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur child has a small yellow ride-on car which is compact and takes up no more room than a scooter or motorbike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have been asked to remove it from the motorcycle parking area on B3, even though these spaces are mostly unused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">She has requested the issue be included as a motion in the next strata committee meeting on October 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis petition is about asking the strata committee to consider a practical, family-friendly approach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe ride-on car is not bulky storage or clutter \u2013 it\u2019s a safe recreational vehicle for our child, similar in nature to the motorcycles the spaces are designed for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">It\u2019s also claimed in the petition it will not bother other residents but instead make the building more inclusive for families with children and maintain order and safety in common areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBy signing this petition you\u2019re supporting a small but meaningful change that will improve the community for families without negatively affecting anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">The Change.org petition appears to currently have 17 verified signatures.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Elizabeth Huang claims the spaces are mostly unused, but she has been told to remove the car anyway. Photo \/ change.org\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Elizabeth Huang claims the spaces are mostly unused, but she has been told to remove the car anyway. Photo \/ change.org<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Premium Strata chief executive Leanne Habib told Daily Mail Australia that development applications for apartment complexes set out several conditions, including the number of bays provided for cars and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI can\u2019t see how a strata committee or an owners corporation has any power to overturn the conditions of the DA without getting a modification or an amendment made and approved by council,\u201d Habib told the Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI understand that it\u2019s only a toy, and I agree it\u2019s not taking any more space than a motorbike, but council is all about ensuring that there\u2019s enough spaces to accommodate these motorbikes and cars so they don\u2019t have issues of congestion out on the street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnd someone can very easily argue, well if it\u2019s that tiny, why isn\u2019t it in your carport?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur child has a small yellow ride-on car which is compact and takes up no more room than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4763,15494,35594,138,26665,35595,35597,35593,5426,78,6178,111,139,69,26227,128,18661,35596,35592,1734,1361,61,24172,12414,1354,6730],"class_list":["post-38895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-allow","tag-apartment","tag-bondi","tag-business","tag-carpark","tag-childs","tag-complexs","tag-convertible","tag-created","tag-in","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parked","tag-petition","tag-pushes","tag-rideon","tag-strata","tag-sydney","tag-that","tag-to","tag-toy","tag-underground","tag-woman","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}