By all means, create a voluntary association of people who want to share a common area and pay for its maintenance, or similar things. Do not give that associa

By all means, create a voluntary association of people who want to share a common area and pay for its maintenance, or similar things. Do not give that association 1) the ability to regulate people's private properties (paint color, plant choices, garbage-can handling, and other such matters), or 2) the ability to attach obligations to house deeds such that a new owner is stuck with them. And if enough new owners don't want to pay for common area maintenance or similar, the neighborhood doesn't get to keep having a maintained common area.