Architectual review
This "architectural review" process is off to a very bad start. See this earlier post.
The principal problem is a glaring omission on the part of the Feedback Committee to do important homework and present it to all of us. Our "architectural review" rules here in Southern Village are affected by many things - by at least one federal law, by at least one state law, by the covenants that "run with the land", actions by the HOA Board of Directors and various pieces of paper adopted, distributed, and still kicking around. Here are just some of them.
Why is this important?
We can all read the current guidelines. And we can offer our views about them, but in order to do so intelligently, and to avoid much wasted time, we need to know that which we cannot change, that which we can, what the history and rationale was (if known) and some sense of context for commenting on the current rules.
I simply do not understand why the Committee has refused to do this, or why the Committee seems to accord it such little importance.
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I am sure that Jeremy would do this. The problem is that it really requires a NC lawyer (which I am not) to sort out not just the history - but the impact of that history, including relevant state and federal statutes - on the architectural "rules". It is not just a question of reviewing the history; it is a matter of helping us understand that which is regulated by the statutes, that which cannot be changed without a covenant-changing vote of the residents, etc. Only once we know what cannot be changed can we profitably discuss whether anything that CAN be changed SHOULD be changed - and in what way.
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