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People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say::More neighborhoods than ever are accepting the role of solar and wind power installations near their homes and towns.

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[–] partial_accumen 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HOAs still place restrictions unfortunately. Perhaps not an outright ban in most places, but limited installations and possibly in not the best place on the house for solar production.

[–] bappity 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HOAs existing should be illegal

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They make sense in communities with shared facilities (pool, playgrounds, walls, roofs, or whatever) and common areas so that everyone helps maintain things. The list of what they get away with should be really, super limited though.

[–] bappity 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

in concept they make sense but 99.999999% of the time people use them as a way to power trip

[–] bappity 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's like what happened with communism

seems like it'd work in concept but the people fuck it up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that's why it will never work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a strange take, how do you organize or run the community without it? Everyone just does whatever without any coordination or some other type of model?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can have municipal regulations and be free to decide what to do with your own property aside from that. Most of the world does it and things work just fine, with the added benefit of no HOA troubles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Municipal regulations affecting very small level stuff like that might become a huge clusterfuck. In Finland HOA type stuff is usually seen as good because it gives the option for people to decide stuff about their own immediate area or even just their own apartment building (so more local democracy) and it's easier to organize a lot of stuff closer to people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

HOA officers and board members should be given the option of abdication or guillotine.