Michael J. Coslo wrote:

Side note. I was doing a public service bike-hike ride support. part
of it went on a township road through one of those neighborhoods.
Suddenly a van pulls up and a guy hops out. "What are you doing here?"
he says. The YL who was manning the station was a little concerned -
it looked almost like an abduction. Anyhow, we explained the bike ride
we were helping with. He wanted to know why, as the President of the
local Homeowners association, he wasn't informed or asked permission
to do this. Then he said he was doing to call the police. At that
point, I took out my cell phone, and said Fine, I'll even help, Ken
(yes I knew him). I'm going to call the Police, the Charity we're
doing this for, the newspaper and the local radio stations. Still want
to do this thing? He thought better of it, got back in the van, and
left.


Actually what you ran into was some officious idiot with no authority
attempting to assert authority over you. Let me note that theoretically
streets belong to the governmental entity in which said street is located or
some entity which the governmental entity is part of (i.e you can have a
state or county road in a small township, it might not belong to the
township, but it sure does belong to some governmental entity) and as such,
private individuals have no right or privilege of passing on who or what
moves on a public street.

The statement advising hams not to move into a development with either home
associations or CCRs strikes me as poor advice. There are few locales
without one or the other left in the US, and most used boiler plate to bar
antennas.

I personally would love to see CCRs and home owner associations expire after
some extended period of time like ten years, we thus would not end up with
the banning of clothes drying or antennas.