HOA, Sun City Grand residents clash over painted driveway borders:
People have been painting their driveway borders for years, and now suddenly the world will come to an end unless they paint over it the same uniform shade of grayish beige. Because everybody knows that nobody wants to buy a house unless it has a grayish beige driveway.
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> "the same uniform shade of grayish beige"
This isn't even about enforcing "uniformity", because several hundred homes have these painted driveway borders. According to the story:
"The Sun City Grand Community Association Management's Architectural Review Committee, which reviews whether home exteriors meet design guidelines, found 606 homes with non-complaint driveway borders within the planned community of 10,000 homes."
"The committee reduced the number to 223 after finding several hundred residents had received approval from developers or the committee itself for the borders."
This is about enforcing compliance and submission. It is nothing more than the exercise of naked power by the H.O.A. corporation. These homeowners did not prostrate themselves before their betters, and must be punished for it.
There is a simple solution to this problem, but nobody -- not even the usual gaggle of self-appointed homeowner advocates -- is interested in making it happen.
According to the story:
"The Sun City Grand Community Association Management's Architectural Review Committee, which reviews whether home exteriors meet design guidelines, found 606 homes with non-complaint driveway borders within the planned community of 10,000 homes."
"The committee reduced the number to 223 after finding several hundred residents had received approval from developers or the committee itself for the borders."
That's a 63% error rate.
> Evan McKenzie wrote… “and now suddenly the world will come to an end unless they paint over it the same uniform shade of grayish beige”
You know who else forced everyone to maintain “the same uniform shade of grayish beige”?
“For decades, Saddam Hussein’s government ruled over aesthetics in Iraq’s capital with the same grip it exercised over its people. A committee of artists, architects and designers approved the color of buildings as well as the placement of shrubs. With many beige brick buildings, and color used sparingly — most often on mosques — the city’s appearance was uniform and restrained.” (“As Baghdad Erupts in Riot of Color, Calls to Tone It Down”. New York Times. 05/14/2011).
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