With some HOAs sour about eco-friendly updates, residents are pushing back

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More Americans than ever are running afoul of their HOAs for updating their homes in ways that benefit the environment, adding solar panels, native lawns, EV chargers, clotheslines or gardens.

Joseph Schiarizzi started his rebellion by planting heirloom tomatoes. With the pandemic raging in spring 2021, his front yard, in a picturesque community just outside Washington, D.C., transformed from a sparse lawn to an explosion of 10 tomato varieties, cucumbers, marigolds, a native mint and jalapeños to make his own hot sauce bursting out of three raised beds. Neighborhood kids helped plant carrots and garlic.

” For Dylan Baddour, his fight against the HOA has become a Texas-sized crusade. Baddour, a journalist with Inside Climate News, tried to restore his yard to native prairie in his new Lockhart, Texas, home. “I always had the dream of owning land and growing a garden,” he says. But first, he had to turn a 6-inch layer of construction fill into rich, loamy soil. “Our subdivision is called the Meadows,” he says. “All streets are named after wildflowers that were removed.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

 

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