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protected class, like religion or marital
status, discrimination based on which
is prohibited by law. Local governments
only need a rational basis for their
disparate treatment of condo owners
(budget constraints, for example) and
courts aren't likely to challenge the
justifications they cite.
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Following a different strategic path,
condo owners in New Jersey persuaded
the state legislature to enact a law requiring municipalities to provide a range of
services-including trash collection and
snow and ice removal-to common interest communities "in the same fashion"
that they provide those services to singlefamily homeowners, or to reimburse
condo associations for those costs.
We actually sought legislation in
Massachusetts more than 20 years ago
making it mandatory for communities
to provide trash collection services on
an equal basis for condo associations
and came close to securing it, until a
legislator pointed out that Proposition
2-1/2 required the state to pay the cost
of any local services it mandated. The
compromise was to insert language
specifying that municipalities had the
option of providing the service to condos,
but we decided that was worse than having no legislation at all. Given the option,
most communities would not provide the
services; without legislation making the
equal treatment optional, condo associations at least had a chance of persuading
local officials that fairness required it.
Community associations have won
more of those battles over the years
than they have lost-partly because
the fairness argument resonates with
local officials, but also (and maybe
more so) because elected officials have
recognized that the large number of
condo owners who appear at hearings
are voters, who could vote against them
in the next election.
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Condo Media - October 2019 - Intro
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