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HOA pounds lady over Wildscape - write Austin HB 645!
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Victor M. Martinez wrote: Marc Stephenson wrote: Living without HOAs is just fine unless you need one (like to force a neighbor to cut down the 6 foot weeds and haul off the junkyard outside his garage, or to force another neighbor to disconnect the 35-foot motor home parked in the driveway). Actually, we've had to deal with some issues with our next-door neighbor and all it took was a call to the city. We don't all live in a city. Maybe Travis County would intervene, but I haven't had the need to call them. Our HOA took care of it. :-) If you don't want an HOA, by all means, avoid neighborhoods which have them. If there is one, make sure that you understand the deed restrictions and are willing to abide by them before taking ownership of the property. Anyway, I know what's supposed to be there and what is not. I don't think anybody ought to tell anybody which plants are ok from the aesthetic perspective. There is no such thing as universal taste. I find large front lawns extremely ugly and boring. The issue is not a matter of deciding which plants are okay. If this woman planned and maintained her landscape/habitat, then she ought to be able to document what's there, show plans, etc. We've seen such lists right here. If she's just letting it run amok (hey look, crabgrass, nutgrass, Johnson grass, broadleaf "weeds", yahoo!), then she's not being considerate of her neighbors. I admit that it's a subjective process. In this case, there's some evidence that the woman in question was just paying lip service to the agreement which she signed (she thought they would go away) and that tilts me away from straight sympathy for her side of the situation. When they brought in "black dirt" for my backyard, it came with Johnson grass, and plenty of it. If I had just decided that having five-foot stalks of Johnson grass dominating my property, should my neighbors not have the right to complain? What if I said, I don't mind it being there, so it's not a weed? I don't expect my neighbors to have to follow any rules that I don't have to follow, and I do expect them to follow the same rules that I have to follow. Works out okay. I know what the rules are and so should they. -- Marc Stephenson IBM Server Group - Austin,TX T/L: 678-3189 |
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