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What can't an HOA ban?
I remember mentioning something before and someone said an HOA can't ban it...
Was it solar panels?
I wonder too about compost bins and hanging laundry to dry. I know our HOA says you can't have a laundry line out. I mean, I dry laundry outside (people can't even see our patio, and I put clothes on hangers and hang them from our patio chairs, hehe).
Oh, and rain barrels. Seems like our HOA would consider the cheaper ones an eyesore (like a black plastic barrel.. not one of the expensive terracotta ones).
Re: What can't an HOA ban?
we have the same rules pretty much, but i'm about 95% sure that our HOA banned solar panels (sadly they're not as popular in oklahoma). nothing in the covenants about rain barrels here (we use spare trash cans anyways haha) but they do say no line drying. we get around this by line drying with a rolling clothes rack we got at Target. it's just really simple and when the clothes are dry we just roll it inside! our HOA also put a regulation on animals... you can have 2 dogs and 2 cats, that's it. and no livestock of any kind even though you can have chickens within city limits. hmmm now that i'm thinking about all of these, they sound pretty strict!
i obviously didn't answer your question! sorry! haha but i am pretty sure we can't have solar panels.
Solar panels cannot be denied by the HOA in California due to the Solar Power Act.
We had to get our plans approved and let our neighbors know but they could not deny us.
Here in northern VA, our HOA bans:
-Solar panels
-Rain barrels
-Line drying
-Anything other than household pets, so no chickens, ducks, etc...
If this were our forever home, I would fight them on the the rain barrels and line drying. They already come onto our property at their leisure and write us up for the dumbest stuff, like the grass in our fenced backyard being too tall (we had gone on vacation). We're really worried we'll get fined for our vegetable garden. So DH made it all nice and pretty over the weekend, cut the grass, and weeded everything throughly. ::keeping my fingers crossed!::
They can ban whatever they like as long as it doesn't conflict with your city or state laws.
Check your HOA laws, then double check against the overarching laws of where you live.
That's cool, I didn't know that. On the other hand, rain barrels are illegal in California because all water falling from the sky belongs to the state.
I guess because they've got a lot of one and not much of the other.
I haven't heard anything about this. They sell rain barrels at my local NorCal Home Depot (I've eyed them; they are lovely recycled old wine barrels). I had heard they were illegal in some western states, but I don't think CA is one of them. Maybe some local governments have banned them?
Agreed. The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation gave a bunch out as part of a pilot program, so unless we have some kind of eco-rebellion going on, they are not illegal per state law.