rules for townhouse patios

In the midst of dealing with sewer backups from tree roots and delinquencies, our board is also trying to doing everything we can to keep the community looking in relative decent shape to attract more owner-occupants. One area I think we've been lax on is the appearance of the patios.

Some have fences surrounding them, others don't. We enacted some design and maintenance standards for the fences a few years ago, but lately, I've noticed we have a problem with people piling all types of junk on the patio (furniture, trash cans, etc.) and some of it is spilling over onto the grass (common area). I'm looking in our ancient CCRs for what they say on the subject. In the meantime, if anyone has various rules regarding appropriate use of patios, I'd love to see them for some ideas.

I had also kicked around the idea of publishing one or two photos of the really bad patios (not listing the address or thw owner's name, of course). The layout of the community is such that you can take the photo from the sidewalk and not go into the patio, but would this still be consider trespassing, invasion of privacy, etc.? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

If the sidewalks are owned by the state/city, it's legal to take pictures from there of anything typically visible to the naked eye (IR cameras are still being sorted out by the courts). If the sidewalks are owned by the HOA, then the same applies, except only to those person who have a right to be on those sidewalks (ie, non-trespassers).

So, from a privacy perspective, snap away...