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by In growing reaction to rising energy costs and the burgeoning sentiment to "go green", Vermont is the latest state to introduce legislation to override clothesline bans which are often enacted by community associations wishing to keep everything neat and tidy. Richard Monson, the president of the California Association of Homeowners Associations, told Legal Affairs magazine that a clothesline in a neighborhood can lower property values by 15 percent: "Modern homeowners don't like people's underwear in public. It's just unsightly."
States such as Florida already have legislation in place to prohibit the banning of clotheslines, or "solar dryers" as some like to call them.
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... America cannot free itself of oil dependence. When "it looks pretty" takes precedence you know our society is pampered and spoiled.
Thank you, Vnutz, for your comment. My intended 2-page rant on Vanity Fair in America would have been taken personally, coming from a foreigner. As your gas-price analysis indicates, it is safe to assume that Americans do not realize how spoiled they are. When it comes to the United States, I am not concerned about a recession, really, because I know when the average family spends thousdands of dollars on frivolities (one of the advantages of affluence, I guess), then there is plenty of room for adjustment. The trouble is when one wants to maintain a certain life style. Then I will just go ahead and buy more stock in all major credit card companies.
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Absurd by ldsudduth :: NR7 :: on 29 August 2007
This ranks right up there with telling me what kind of car I can drive, or banning Satellite Dishes/Antenna. These kinds of covenants should not exist; can anyone actually prove people don't like to see clothes hanging on a line? If they don't then they need to go live in one of those gated nanny communities and leave real people alone.
RE: Absurd by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 30 August 2007
Haven't you already moved into "one of those gated nanny communities" when you buy a home with this covenant/homeowners' association?
Refuse to buy these houses and people will be saying "this covenent lowers house values by 15%" instead of the opposite.
RE: Absurd by ldsudduth :: NR7 :: on 30 August 2007
Haven't you already moved into "one of those gated nanny communities" when you buy a home with this covenant/homeowners' association?
What if the covenant/homeowners association rule doesn't exist when you first move into a neighborhood, but comes up later? Any homeowner who proposes balderdash like this should just move into a nanny community, because that is what they really want.