“There is no provision in the community’s rules expressly forbidding flagpoles, Barfoot’s daughter said. But she said the board ruled against her father’s fixture and ordered it removed in July, deciding that free-standing flag poles are not aesthetically appropriate. “
So the board of busybodies could just pull rules from some nether region.
Wonder how many of the board members have statuettes in their yard?
Such is the nature of homeowners' associations