When Condo Commandoes Attack! Neighborhood kingdoms and drought.

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When gentrified communities attack! In the middle of a drought and water emergency in California couple might be fined for a brown lawn from lack of watering.

http://news.yahoo.com/calif-couple-conserves-amid-drought-could-face-fine-201644396.html

I call them condo commandoes but they are the neighborhood home owners associations or kingdoms that use/abuse local code enforcement for their own personal tastes and self righteous sense of what the entire community should look like.

Always and I mean always read that fine print when there is a home owners association or condo board on the deed/lease. Also in an neighborhood of homes be afraid if everything looks the same and is not a new community. Be afraid, be scared and/or run because their is a good chance it is like that by design.

A brown lawn, seriously? I hate to see faux outrage if there wasn't a drought. Does that mean you get fined for every dandy lion or bare spot as well? Or you HAVE TO use a lawn chemicals from an "approved" list?
 

I'd never live in an HOA community, heard too many horror stories from owners who had to deal with the powers that be.
 

I live in the desert SW, drought central. A number of years ago big conflict between one HOA & owners who wanted to give up their green lawns for responsible xeriscaping. The x-ers won, & law passed that specifically prohibits assns from disallowing that. But if overgrown with weeds & not maintained in some recognizable style, whole other matter. Same thing happened with people who wanted to landscape with wild flowers, they won too.
 
Geezerette said:
I live in the desert SW, drought central. A number of years ago big conflict between one HOA & owners who wanted to give up their green lawns for responsible xeriscaping. The x-ers won, & law passed that specifically prohibits assns from disallowing that. But if overgrown with weeds & not maintained in some recognizable style, whole other matter. Same thing happened with people who wanted to landscape with wild flowers, they won too.
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For the first time, Texas is now in that same situation. The law needs to pass the state Senate yet, and we will be allowed to get away from green. I look forward to that day.
Having lived in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area for a number of years, and enjoyed the easy maintenance of desert landscaping, it would be a welcome change. But change is going slow, and has faced challenges all along the way. Hope they see the wisdom of it soon and pass the bill.
 
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