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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

>  Imagine sharing the covenants for the community at the Board of
> Supervisor's meetings.

You all have the right idea with the restictive covenants.  Understand, 
though, that a restrictive covenant is a legally enforceable document and 
gives the 
property owner very strong standing in court.  And they cannot be changed 
unless ALL the involved homeowners agree or abandon the restrictions.  If you 
own 
a property that is bound by covenant to 20 others and 19 of those owners want 
to change the terms of the covenant, they can't.  

I found, much to my surprise, that most people belive that deed restrictions 
or restrictive covenants are easily defeated under the bromide that "you 
can't 
tell a body what to do with his own property."   Yes you can.  Deed 
restrictions are one of the firmest and surest things to enforce and any 
individual 
property owner may enforce them.

I happen to know a bit about this because my property and the other 11 
properties around it are bound by deed restictions and we had to bring suit 
once to 
enforce them.  They were enforced.   </HTML>