The Car Cemetery: It Is Time to Reclaim Our Garage and Communal Areas

Our community is not a scrapyard or a storage unit, but a quick walk through our garage and communal areas might make you think otherwise. For far too long, the current administration has looked the other way while several abandoned vehicles and old belongings sit rotting on our premises, taking up valuable space and devaluing our property.

This inactivity must end. As your Portavoz (Spokesperson), it is my intention to initiate the legal process to have these vehicles and items permanently removed.

The Risks of Inaction and Community Rules

Allowing these cars to gather dust and rust is not just an aesthetic issue; it is a direct violation of our rights and a threat to La Caleta:

• The Garage is Not a Storage Unit: Parking spaces are exclusively for parking vehicles in active use. It is strictly forbidden to use them to store furniture, personal belongings, rubble, or deregistered cars.

• Fire and Health Hazards: Abandoned vehicles and accumulated junk can leak flammable fluids, collect trash, and become nesting grounds for pests.

• Removal at the Owner's Expense: The Community of Owners (Junta) has the legal right to order the removal of these items and vehicles. If the current owner refuses to cooperate, the community will execute the removal and pass all towing, storage, waste management, and legal costs directly onto the offender.

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What about vehicles left by previous owners?

It is unacceptable that people who have already sold their apartments continue to use our garage as their personal, free scrapyard. If a former owner left their vehicle behind, the administration should have acted immediately. We will trace the license plates through the DGT (Traffic Department) and Local Police to track down these former residents. They will be forced to remove their vehicles, or the community will remove them and pursue them legally to recover every single cent of the costs.

Our Action Plan

Spanish law requires a formal administrative process: notifying the owners (current or former), involving the Local Police, and finally getting the Town Hall to declare the vehicle as "solid urban waste" so it can be towed to a scrapyard.

The current administration has avoided this work because it requires effort and resolve. We will catalog every abandoned vehicle and initiate the removal files one by one.

We Need Your Authority

Authorization for Legal Action: The Ley de Propiedad Horizontal requires that the Community of Owners formally authorize the initiation of administrative proceedings—specifically to engage the Local Police and the Town Hall to declare a vehicle "solid urban waste"

To represent the community before the Local Police and the Town Hall, and to enforce financial penalties on the offenders, we need a strong majority.

If you are tired of seeing our garage treated as a dumping ground and want us to take action, we need your proxy vote. 

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Download, sign, and submit your proxy form today.