A company called City Detect is outfitting municipalities with cameras to give homes a "blight score," effectively turning a whole city into an HOA.
    • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      In a sane place. Yes.

      In a mini fascist empire run by an HOA? Not even as a joke. HOA rules are efforts to raise resale value, not do anything positive, or prevent anything negative, from happening to the humans caught in the middle.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Nah, a neighboring city has ordinance written with aesthetics in mind too. Like, it’s in the city code that your front yard landscaping has to be congruent with the aesthetic of the street landscaping.

      It’s absolute insanity.

      Edit: For the actual text

      Entry areas, access easements, and driveways shall be landscaped to create a feeling of identification and continuity of plant materials related to the plantings around the buildings and parking areas. The primary entrances to the multi-family development, defined for this section as the entrances from public roadways, shall have landscaped areas on either side of the entrance. This landscape area shall be a triangle beginning at a point where the back of the sidewalk and the driveway intersect and running a distance of twenty feet parallel with the street, and fifteen feet from the back of the sidewalk along the driveway, and diagonally connecting the two lines. These areas may be utilized as rain gardens.

      • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        24 hours ago

        This is the kind of bullshit I have to deal with. The city jerkoffs say I have to have a more “herbaceous” front yard. There is a drought and watering restrictions to days and hours. Yet I need more grass. Clowns.

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      As per the summary part of the post, it’s talking about a “blight” score and HOA (Home Owners Associations).