You agree to the upkeep and maintenance of common grounds and amenities offered...pools, playgrounds, club houses, etc.
You agree to share the costs involved in maintaining those common grounds and amenities, you agree on architectural limitations regarding alterations to the exterior of the houses, you agree to paint your houses a certain color, how many trees constitute landscaping, what types of trees are allowed, and even which kinds are required.
You agree not to put up a vehicle up on blocks for longer than it takes to change tires.
Etc, etc, etc...
So again, you are dead wrong.
You don't HAVE to do any of those things if you don't want to, but you will not be sold a house in that township, and if you buy it, and break your contract, you will be fined, and your house may be taken from you.
I'm not taking away anyone's property rights, I am defining the parameters of the community where I chose to live, no one forces you to live here, so you don't have to agree with the rules.
Just don't fool yourself into thinking that you can both live in the community, and not abide by the rules.
Majority doesn't rule when it comes to law. Nor the work of busy-body do-gooders.
A township has no right to grandfather in how people will use their property in a given area...for the "common good".
If you are with this concept.....you are also agreeing to the notion that if a "do-gooder" finds shallow holding water on your property the Gov't has a right (for the commmon good) to declare it wet lands and tell you want you can and can't do.
In your mindset another "do-gooder" (for the common good) can find any type of flower (possibly going extinct) or such on one's property and if this happens the Gov't has a right to come in and tell this person what they can and can't do with their own property.
You keep convolutedly suggesting that "if a group" does this or does that it overrides the right of the individual.
That is European light. It goes completely against the foundation of this Country where was based on individual rights over that of the "group".
Additionally the notion of "fees" paid to upkeep "community" property is a completely different subject. You don't own those "pools" or "playgrounds"....you simply have a fee-based charge for the use of them. But you don't not own them.