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🚧 Sign Wars & Safety Fails: How Our Board Thinks “Authorized Personnel Only” Signs Can Outrank High-Voltage Power Lines

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Another week, another page out of the “You Can’t Make This Up” book of COA mischief at the Hills of Inverrary.

In the latest installment of “Let’s Pretend We Know the Law,” our board has chosen to ignore both Florida Power & Light’s legally binding easement and common sense. Instead of removing construction debris, equipment, and now maintenance sheds and containers from beneath high-voltage transmission lines (yes, those transmission lines), they’ve gone with a bold workaround:

👉 Install a sign that says “AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.”

Apparently, the board believes warning signs have magical liability-repelling powers — like garlic to vampires, but for litigation.

🎭 The Cast of This Governance Tragedy

🎩 Rules and Regs Guy stands beside the caution tape and squints at the easement documents like they’re a foreign language. He mutters:

🗨️ “I skimmed the FPL easement… nothing in there about logic.”

Meanwhile, 📋 The Meeting Monitor, perched atop a storage container, peers through binoculars and whispers:

🗨️ “If we call it a ‘Community Enhancement Zone,’ does that exempt us from fireballs?”

Together, they preside over the makeshift maintenance lot like it’s a game of COA Monopoly. But in this version, Public Safety and Legal Exposure are both “Chance” cards nobody wants to draw.

🧯 Public Risk, Private Shenanigans

To recap:

  • They were told — by me — that using the easement area this way violates FPL’s terms.
  • They were reminded, again, when sheds and waste piles began accumulating.
  • They responded by trying to cut a deal with the City of Lauderhill.
  • They posted a sign. 🎉

What they didn’t do:

  • Remove the hazards
  • Seek proper legal clearance
  • Tell the truth to residents

⚖️ This Isn’t Just Bad Judgment — It’s Potentially Illegal

Using an easement area for unauthorized purposes — especially one involving high-voltage utility lines — isn’t just a paperwork technicality. It’s reckless endangerment and a potential breach of fiduciary duty.

I’ve now officially reported this to:

  • FPL
  • Lauderhill Code Enforcement
  • The Florida Public Service Commission
  • And shared evidence with Association counsel and our insurance carrier.

📝 What Now?

If you’re a resident who’s had enough of Sign-and-Pray governance, make your voice heard:

  • Demand a formal response from the board
  • Ask if your insurance coverage might be voided
  • Remind them that hiding negligence behind a sign doesn't make you “authorized” — it makes you liable

And as Rules and Regs Guy always says:

🗨️ “Rules only matter if you get caught… or if your insurance cancels you.”

“The Hills of Inverrary News Blog – Where Facts Live and Spin Stops.”

Location: Lauderhill, FL, USA

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