Reply #157: Not sure if you thought I was implying that. [View All]

[noamnety]

HOA laws that encourage or require residents to do things that are environmentally unfriendly for the sake of "appearances" should be illegal, as I argued in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7047288#7052963

Growing your own chickens (with possible exceptions for roosters and noise issues), growing your own veggies, and doing other things that are environmentally more friendly than contracting out those services to factory farming and corporate control should be encouraged, not prohibited.

I think she should go to the council and argue FOR overturning the ban on raising chickens. I think she should go to the council and argue for overturning the ban on grasses over 6 inches tall because it's environmentally unsound to require compulsive mowing. (I can't speak to the plant restrictions because I don't know which are classified as invasive in her area.)

I don't think she should go try to ban butchering your own meat because she doesn't like a restriction on chickens or lawns. I'm not seeing that logical connection.