Drought debate: Homeowner fined for replacing grass with drought-tolerant plants - Inside Bay Area: SAN RAMON -- Fran Paxson figured to get a little credit and admiration when she replaced the old lawn around her suburban San Ramon home with drought-resistant plants.
Her public water supplier is even rewarding her with a rebate.
But her homeowners association -- drought and a new state law be darned -- is punishing her with a fine.
Paxson's plight is turning up the heat in the conflict between the aesthetics and the thirst of water-hungry green lawns as California struggles through a third year of drought.
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Another perennial story in the litany of bad press for Privatopia: enforcement actions over flying flags, holiday lights and this recurring story of HOAs at odds with local governments over watering restrictions.
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So maybe it is bad public policy for local governments to be mandating involuntary membership HOAs which will operate to undermine changes in public policy and which incite others to thwart public policy, individuality, etc. by threat of fine and foreclosure on their homes.
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