A fraction shy of 75 per cent of the vote supported our right to put a clothes-drying rack on our balconies. That wasn’t enough. Strata law needs to change.
Annual meetings for apartment owners do not typically lend themselves to compelling storytelling, but Shakespeare might not have written a more tragicomic tale than my building’s most recent strata meeting. It was the largest ever turnout for our AGM. They tend to be small, sleepy affairs. But this time, about 50 residents filed in, drawn by an opportunity to vote on a bylaw amendment that would finally end the ban on drying laundry on balconies and allow us to put out a portable clothes rack.
At first, the results sparked jubilation. The facilitator revealed that, of almost 3500 entitlements counted, more than 2500 had voted for change, with fewer than 900 against. Motion passed, we assumed. At long last, we would be free from the harsh laundry rules.Finally, heartbreak. A recount showed that, in fact, 25.8 per cent of entitlements voted against the change, and 74.2 per cent voted for it. The motion failed by the thinnest of whiskers., I was devastated.
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