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>>You would deny a property owner the right to place beneficial restrictions ON HIS OWN PROPERTY!

What the hell are you talking about? I'm BUYING the property, it is mine,

Ahhh. You miss the key point, grasshopper.

The point is that the DEVELOPER owns the property all at one time, and puts whatever lawful restrictions (and right to amend) he believes will be most attractive to the market, and will maximize the price.

It's HIS property right to do so. Then, when I come along, enamored by the restrictions he has applied (say, because I hate junkers, basketball hoops, or the color pink) that restriction is lawfully continued, and I enjoy the lawful right to enforce it against the other properties that the developer originally owned. That is MY property right.

When some moron comes along, reads the rules buys anyway, then insists on behavior that either violates the rules, or is so much a nuisance that it leads to lawful rule change, then his effort to continue his behavior is the offense against property rights.

But I grant that there are a lot of morons who buy with no clue about the restrictions. I have no sympathy for them.

I checked in to my property restrictions when I wanted to get some chickens (I live in a older neighborhood.) My 1959 restrictions stated that I could only own enough chickens for my family's personal consumption...that I couldn't operate a poultry business from the property!

LOL!! I still have a copy of it...I think it's hysterical.

(I ended up with 6 hens that lived back there three years and no one even knew. Also, we had two meat chickens that we even butchered back there and not a soul in the neighborhood knew. We were very careful not to allow anything to get smelly and we didn't get roosters so they wouldn't crow and bother anyone. We could've...the rules said we could...but we didn't out of good manners.)