[beezdotcom]

Only if you buy into a community that allows such a restriction.

Correction: only if you buy into a community that has the inclination to PASS such a restriction in the future, and also has fine-print in their covenants to allow such a restriction to hold up in court.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

...only if you buy into a community that has the inclination to PASS such a restriction ...

HOW is a buyer to know????

Your comment(s) overlook the fact that HOA board membership changes over time. May have some good folks one year, total idiot nannies the next.

I've experienced that; have the T-shirt.

I wouldn't even think of buying into an HOA-admined development.