In Kenmore WA (King County) is a condo association legally required to provide snow and ice removal from their parking lot?
The obligations of the condo association should be defined by the Declaration of the condominium, though an activity like snow removal is probably covered within broad descriptions of the association’s obligation to maintain the common areas of the association. Usually the decisions on how to maintain the common elements (like the parking lot) are made by the board of directors for the condominium. The board has broad discretion in how it maintains the common areas, and likely can choose not to remove snow and ice from the parking lot. There is no general requirement that any condominium in WA state remove snow or ice from the parking lots or any other portions of the common elements. Special circumstances might create a duty to clear some snow or ice, so knowing more specifics about the community and the residents of the community might result in a different answer. For example if the snow and ice created a special hazard because of the geography or some other reason, a duty to elimin
