Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: language in Home Owners Association documents

[Patricia Lautner (lautnerp]

At JPC, we don’t mention anything like this in our condo docs.

Patti Lautner
Jamaica Plain Cohousing
Boston

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 7:58 AM Marcia Zuckerman via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m at Bay State Commons; we're building a 30-unit urban community in
> Malden, MA [occupancy Q1 2022!].  We’re reviewing our Home Owners
> Association [HOA] documents and struggling with language about potentially
> offensive activity.  The current draft says,
>
> 8. OFFENSIVE ACTIVITIES. No owner may use or maintain his or her Unit or
> the Common Areas appurtenant thereto for any purpose or in any manner which
> is contrary to any applicable law, rule, regulation or requirement of any
> governmental authority, or for any purpose which would constitute a
> nuisance or be offensive to a majority of the Trustees.
>
> Some people are concerned about making the law paramount, given the
> history of laws that supported slavery and outlawed currently legal
> activities such as sodomy, cannabis, and miscegenation.  Do other
> communities make reference to laws in their HOA documents?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcia Zuckerman
> Bay State Commons
>
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