STB ruled in a test case yesterday that a condominium management council had the right to charge parking fees for second and subsequent vehicles of residents under a by-law passed at a GM. Some 20 home owners at Parc Oasis in Jurong East Ave 1 had applied to the board to repeal the by-law as “ultra vires, oppressive and discriminatory”. The by-law had been passed last June at an EGM. It imposed a monthly parking fee of $100 on people with a second car and $150 for each additional vehicle after that. The monthly management fees were also raised, from $56 to $59 per share value. These new levies were part of the MCST council’s efforts to raise funds to offset an estimated $353,000 deficit in the maintenance fund for the fiscal year beginning July 2013.... Continue Reading