The problem is that there is no "Board" or "volunteers", or voting per se.

Dominion has decreed that they are the board (for a period of 30 years), and can arbitrarily implement restrictions without representation from the actual Home Owners that live in the community. (to draw a parallel...no taxation without representation...sound familiar?)

Doesn't sound democratic, does it?

One remedy is to vote them out...may be a next step.

Zoning/Planning/Building Permit departments in the city of Louisville permit up to 8 foot fences.

Dog Ordinance require/permit 6 foot enclosures (fences/cages)?

This is a safety fence in order to preserve the health and welfare of neighbors in the community. It is not a spite fence, a nuisance fence or otherwise.

Who is responsible for protecting their dogs and property and can be held liable? The home owner, not the Association!!!

Last I checked, we live in a Democracy and in the City of Louisville in the good ol' USA!!!

In order to get anything changed, we need to meet with the Dominion, but they have refused to even attend the Home Owner Association meeting or respond to correspondence on the matter...

By the way, fences increase property values (in ground pools for example decrease property values).

Thanks for reading...

I live in a high rise condo building with assigned garage parking spaces that are deeded to your unit. I want to sell an extra spot that I own but the Board President informed me that I could not post it on the list in the office because I am not asking the minimum price that the Board has formulated for parking spaces. He further told me that if I wanted to sell my unit, they would expect the "preferred" realtor not to list my unit if they thought I was not "reflecting the market value" by selfishly desiring to sell it at a lower price simply to effect a quick sale. (I have the emails to prove this)

You think you live in an association ruled by a nutball? Come to my place!

I agree, what ever happened to the idea of a "Free Market Economy?"

Prices set by supply and demand?

"Price fixing", is illegal in some industries...

Again, don't we live in a democracy in the USA (not a socialist or communist country!?!)

I think there is a vital point that needs to be made. These rules and covenants are in most cases very poorly written. There is a lot of intrepration involved. For example, the restriction that there are no outbuildings allowed. It would have never ocurred to me that a child's playhouse, which is sold next to swing sets, would be treated as an outbuilding. I thought of it as no different than a swing set, trampoline or a plastic playhouse which there are many in our neighborhood.

In our case we were shocked that our daughter's playhouse would be against the covenants. It is not always a matter of people claiming ignorance but one person's interpretation of the rules versus another. Some rules are very clear and easy to interpret. However, if you ask two different attorneys you will get two very different answers on wht it takes to change the rules.

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Originally posted by DawnB:
Neighborhood Association covenants are created by the developer, not the Association Board. It is simply their jobs as volunteers to uphold those rules. Each and every homeowner within a neighborhood with these rules are informed of them whether by their builder or by the previous owner within the disclosures before the purchase is made. Just because you claim ignorance, does not mean that you are exempt from them.

The gentleman with the six foot fence was told that he did not have permission according to the covenants and just because the majority of his neighbors that he spoke with are OK with it does not give him the right to put it up. If he or anyone else within a neighborhood does not like the rules, then they either should not have moved to that neighborhood in the first place or should move, plain and simple.

I don't need you to explain. I've lived here for 5 years.