Grandpa’s Basement House
The idea of HOAs having any kind of say feels so undemocratic, but not in a standard way.  We should not tolerate purely popular democracies.  We allow representative democracies, and part of that public contract is for our leaders to represent all those in their constituency, not just those who voted for them.<p>That means those in the minority.  The crazy guy growing gourds instead of a lawn.  The loon with the purple house.  The impoverished who can’t paint their house every other year.  Those kinds of folk need representation the most.