GOVERNMENT RUN AMUCK!!  #1

WHEN COMMON SENSE LEAVE THE BUILDING!!!

Denver HOA

In the midst of a drought, HOA fines homeowner for brown grass

27 Jul 2012

"An HOA in Denver has fined a resident $200 for having brown spots on Lenn
her lawn — in the middle of a severe water shortage."

Read the full article from the Virginia Association of Realtors HERE.

I just don't know what to make of this.  It leaves me speachless and waiting to read that the entire article is a mistake, perhaps posted in jest.
 
No.  It's real.  I know, I know.  You can't believe what you're reading either.
 
Which is more offensive, the fine issued by the Denver HOA?  Or, the rediculous State of Colorado law? 
 
"Interestingly, it’s illegal for Colorado residents to catch the rainwater that falls on their property unless they have a well and don’t get “city water” — and they can only use the collected water for drinking and bathing, not something like watering a lawn or garden.  Utah and Washington impose similar restrictions."

Courtesy, Lenn Harley, Broker, Homefinders.com, 800-711-7988.

 

 


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12 Comments on GOVERNMENT RUN AMUCK!! HOA Run Amuck too. #1 Denver

JUL
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Hi Lenn.  Both are bizarre and lack the common sense that a beetle possesses.  Oh wait beetles don't have common sense.
3:23am • #1
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Conrad.  Beetles know only two things, eat and reproduce.  Humans are supposed to be capable of common sense.
3:40am • #2
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They can fine for anything.  Once they fined my neighbor for shutter color, the same as my shutter color, and the shutters and color were original to the house!  The house was 12 years old then.
3:55am • #3
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Jay.  That's authority run amuck.
5:49am • #4
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It seems like the Common Sense we in this country once knew has gone on vacation or moved on elsewhere.

Sue of Robin and Sue
6:56am • #5
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Robin and Sue.

Indeed.  I was employed by the SEC when the "Paperwork Reduction Act" was implemented.  It added reams of paper to every transaction.
7:28am • #6
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Hi Lenn - Colorado water law is very interesting stuff - hugely complicated and born of necessity - we're a semi-arid climate and our only real source of water is rainfall and snow melt. And almost every lake in the state is man made and pretty much every little bit of water here (including the stuff up in the clouds about to become raindrops) is owned by someone ready to fight for their rights - the richest people in Colorado are water attorneys. That said, the HOA action was obnoxious and ridiculous - but that's pretty much how HOA's work.
8:41am • #7
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Dick.  I understand the difficulties of areas such as Colorado and other states in the area where water is a very valuable resource.

What got me about this one was " it’s illegal for Colorado residents to catch the rainwater that falls on their property"

8:59am • #8
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Lenn- common sense is dying a slow death as a result of being strangled by too many non-sensical laws. 
7:44pm • #9
JUL
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Kathy.  The cost of the Obama administration's massive and still mounting regulations is draining the life blood from our economy.
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Lenn, I live in Colorado. The ironic thing is, the big box stores sell the big rain barrels for collecting the rain for watering plants but it is illegal for most residents.

Nancy
4:14pm • #11
JUL
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Nancy.  Government, local and national is completely out of control with senseless, worthless and costly regulations.  They appear to sit around daily thinking of ways to jam more and more regulations down our throats.

 
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