Or as the Monty Python boys like to say, "No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition."
Notice that landowners in this subdivision must submit their building plans to "the architectural control committee." The committee likes ranch-style house and does not like Spanish-style houses with red tile roofs.
What do you think of this kind of control over human individuality?
Pay attention to note 2 on page 667--do you agree or disagree with Prof. Winokur when he worries about the "resulting homogeneity" caused by allowing covenants to control so much of the development and use of land? Here is the money excerpt from Prof. Winokur's statement:
"The domination of housing markets by potentially perpetual, uniform servitude regimes has begun to undercut both the economic efficiency of these servitudes and the personal liberties of existing residents and potential buyers. Enforcement of all restrictions imposed by servitude regimes, limiting neither the duration nor the content of servitudes, can also undermine the availability of neighborhoods conducive to human flourishing, where each individual's identity can be based on personal control of a unique place in the residential environment."
If A likes a modern ranch style home and B likes a "Spanish style" stucco home, and if there are more As than Bs in the community, should the As be able to control the style of B's own home on his own piece of land?
What are your thoughts?
To quote Burr in Hamilton:
"I should’ve known the world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me
The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me"
Is the neighborhood wide enough for both ranch houses and Spanish stucco house?
