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You are absolutely right about that, I also would never buy a home in a community with a HOA.

• davidw 10y ago
  Ah, I see what you are saying: you think that suburbs are not planned down to the most minute of details? I don't know where you live, but I bet if you read a copy of your local zoning code, and have a look at the zoning map, you will probably find that yes, your suburb is very, very heavily regulated, including parking minimums, minimum floor/area ratios, setbacks, uses, and so on and so forth. Probably less than some HOA's demand, but still a lot of details. I too am not the kind of person who relishes that level of control, but I suppose some people like it.
  • LordKano 10y ago
    You raise a valid point. I just looked at my local code book of ordinances and they do cover a lot, including the number of parking spaces by square footage. In my experience, in a smaller town, these things are primarily used as a weapon to punish otherwise bad businesses. For example, we had a bar whose patrons became a neighborhood nuisance. They began to enforce the letter of the law for every violation until the bar closed.
    • davidw 10y ago
      There's an alternate universe where these kinds of problems are entirely dealt with through nuisance and noise laws and that kind of thing: the bar is permitted wherever people want to build it, however, the local authorities come down hard on people being a PITA. So if it's a wine bar where middle aged people sip quietly and chat about business, it's not going to bother anyone. The rowdy biker bar probably won't last long in a residential area.
    • WWLink 10y ago
      That sounds pretty bad. If you make everything illegal then only selectively enforce the laws...
      • LordKano 10y ago
        In the USA, that seems to be the model at all levels of government.
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