[FreedomFriend]

Well, I don't necessarily think that this will be implemented through HomeOwners Associations. Those groups are set up through the developer and managed by the residents of the neighborhood. People sign the covenant agreement when the move in. As much as I dislike Homeowner's Associations, this will be implemented through local planning departments.

I know quite a bit about city planning, and that is part of the reason why I opted out of it. This will be set through new zoning classifications, defined "agricultural" areas and the like.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

You have a point. I have seen it locally in zoning laws of a village trying to implement 'no garden' and 'shooting any firearm' laws to very rural farm/hunting sections of townships.

It was ridiculous, these laws may have been somewhat feasible (even accepted) in a largely populated (houses 6 feet apart shopping district.) but not where hunters hunt in the backwoods country.

[MissAmericanPie]

My neighborhood is older, before all that developer setting up a home owners association and all that. I told my husband this was coming when I recieved a card a year ago wanting to know if we would be interested in starting a neighborhood association.

I just got back from the grocery store, met a neighbor there and asked her if she had received her packet. She said yes and that this gal a few blocks over was the one that started it as part of a city wide push for all neighborhoods to group off into associations. I told her that all that I had received was a polling card and she said the same for her, their claim that there were invitations sent out was bogus. The only thing she saw were a couple of little signs outside the grade school saying there would be a meeting. She said she didn't know of anyone that went to it. Now all of a sudden we are all in, like it or not, voted on or not. She was about as happy about it as I was.