Beecrofter wrote:

Kill it all, hit it with roundup and let the entire lawn go dead.
Then wait until you get a letter telling you to replant.
Claim you followed their orders.
I bet you can make it take a year to grow back.
Might as well train the HOA not to screw with you.
Smile agree make the motions blame the weather the seed and etc

Reseed as a wildflower meadow. Install a birdhouse, then register the
parcel with the National Audubon Society as a bird sanctuary. Any
complaints, write the local papers. Make lots of noise about how
your town's songbirds are federally protected, etc.