Derelict Brick

HO1 installed a patio w/in a fenced pool area and a walkway outside the area with bricks. Apparently, he ordered too many so has a (mostly) neatly stacked pile of maybe 1500 leftovers in his side yard which is visible from at least six other lots and also from the street. HO1 has also used some to put in a 4 foot wide, three level high, sort of messy, eyesore circle pit for bonfires he conducts a few times a year, also in the middle of the same side yard.

HO2, who lives in a house adjacent to HO1 and sees this stuff every day, approached the BOD and asked, “Is enough enough?” The second enough probably referring to the fact the stack has been there since 2002, the pit since 2005.

Assume our ByLaws give the BOD the latitude to have the stack and pit removed, with fines if not removed.

Our thinking is to first ask HO1 to remove them (HO1 has plenty of room inside the fence to store them out of sight). If HO1 refuses, our second step which would be to pass a Resolution limiting the visible storage of any unused construction materials for 60 days.

Have any of you faced a similar situation? If so, how did you handle it? Or, do you think it needs handling at all?

Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.

Mary, I like your answers. Would you like to move to Ct. and be on our board?

Dana

Mary,

Yes, we have similar language: a ByLaw enforcable by the BOD, a CCR enforcable (as I read it) by other Owners.

But it's a judgment call. The pit, most would agree, looks pretty crummy; like some bricks were just tossed onto the lawn. The other 1500, however, looks like one big, square block, and looks odd rather than bad. Personally, I didn't much notice it until the issue was raised by HO2.

So again, though we CAN, we're stuck at SHOULD & HOW.

Mary,

Yes, we're the Scotch Guys. How nice of you to remember.

However, as we're a rather abstemious group (a great word to add to your vocabulary if you haven't already), a whole bottle won't help.

1500 bricks? How about 500? How about 50? How about 5?

3 layer fire pit? How about 1 layer at ground level?

But, yes. We'll pour then prognosticate.

Mary,

I'm even more impressed with you. I had to look it up after I heard Daniel Day-Lewis use it in "The Bounty" a few weeks ago.

Yes, it also applies to food, but we don't have meal service at our BOD meetings.