It BS like this that makes me avoid HOA's like the plague.

There will be no homeowners' association in Galt's Gulch!

It's just another instance of "the needs of the neighborhood watchdog committee's control outweigh the needs of the few - or the one."

Between the empirical demands of an HOA board stuck on controlling property that is not theirs, but yours, and the notion of antiquated or crazy CC&R's (such as one proclaiming the property shall not be used for -any- business or commercial purposes whatsoever), the entire "We will control you" attitude not only strikes me as "Anti-capitalist" and "Anti-American", but makes me somewhat ill at the same time. That they can do so to the point of a legal "loaded gun" with threats of all sorts goes even further to the notion of a socialist state, where you have the "Imperial" and the "Sheeple/serf".