As another poster below said you should work with your HOA to change that. I was in the Board of our HOA (a townhome community), recently decided to step down,

As another poster below said you should work with your HOA to change that. I was in the Board of our HOA (a townhome community), recently decided to step down, and we amended our CC&R to allow solar panels. We had to add a few caveats but no biggie.