Members of the Margot's Pond Community are being served with warnings by their Home Owners Association to keep their grass green.  Amid these terrible drought conditions in and around Raleigh some people are taking these restrictions too far.  Many of these HOA agreements, in normal situations, are the best thing to happen to communities.  They keep the property values up, the community looking the way it should, and more than anything, they keep the residents happy.  However, the types of water codes and restrictions that have been enforced recently due to lack of precipitation make it impossible to keep one's grass looking healthy.  It is quite humorous to think that a HOA requires green grass in the middle of one of the worst drought seasons on record.  HOA officials in Cary, Wake Forest, and Raleigh need to start thinking logically and loosen the rules for their residents in the following months.  Everyone wants a healthy and beautiful landscape, but not at the cost of violating city ordinances and water restrictions.  Click here for the News & Observer story. 

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