Rules and Regulations - from other thread

What would be included under a Rules and Regulations sheet?

I thought I needed specific "policies" due to the Colorado (or Uniform) Common Interest Act thingy...CCIOA...

Yes, most of these are included in my bylaws and articles, but aren't completely "policies" as I would think of them.

I'm hoping we don't have to make many changes! We like our laid back association! We're just a working class neighborhood, and we don't have the time nor the inclination to start fighting amongst each other. Mostly, we do just live and let live... Hanging laundry...good for you! Supporting the troops...yaaayy! Signs in the front yard advertising political stuff...we're glad you're an involved citizen! I just can't spend my precious time worrying about that crap. Now, if they plant trees and the tree starts to affect the gutters...now you're going to have a problem with me. Otherwise...I couldn't really care less.

Thanks! This is a repost from another thread that we hijacked...

Tracie, whether you, personally, or even 4 or 5 or 10 of your neighbors, personally, don't have a problem with advertising signs or laundry hanging out isn't the point.

If it's in your deed restrictions, then you do not have the luxury of determining which you will enforce, and which you won't.

If the neighborhood truly does want certain "rules" to "go away," there is really only one legitimate and proper way to do that: through a document amendment.

Even though your docs may say lack of enforcement of one restriction doesn't void the entire set, consistent and repeated lack of enforcement that appears to be cherry-picking could well void your ability to enforce all of them.

An accidental lack of enforcement would be okay. Or picking up enforcement after a time of lax enforcement might be good enough to protect the integrity of the documents. But the key to maintaining their complete integrity is consistent, fair, and and unimpeachable enforcement.

I also think you might want to re-think the statement about "just" a "working class" neighborhood. Last I checked, people living in working class neighborhoods work just as hard to keep their property values intact.

Cherry-picking enforcement depending on who's running the show this year or next is not the way to do that.

Trust me. If you want to be comfortable in what to enforce and what not to enforce, then get the homeowners to formally vote on what should be amended and what should be left alone.

You might be surprised at what bubbles up.

I know we were.

Originally our deed restrictions did not allow sheds. We figured people wanted sheds so we put up an amendment. It got voted down! We were shocked! People want SHEDS, but they don't want cra**y sheds! So they wouldn't approve a shed amendment until we produced one with very specific specifications on what would be allowable and what would not be allowable!

They also surprised us by voting down above-ground pools! All we heard for two years was how we have lots of families with kids; these are "working class" families; blah blah blah.

But when it was put up for a vote, boom. Voted down.

You mean you're doing all of this while you're at your JOB?!? LOL