HOAs are like companies with employee policies; they can write whatever they want–whether it would hold up to legal challenge is another matter.
Portland never had much in the way of HOAs, but since much of the building in the last 25 uears has been in suburbs and condos, HOAs now abound outside the city proper. Air conditioning was never really a thing in Portland–growimg up here I never had it and yeah you had 2 really hot weeks in August and you learned to deal with it; pool, basements, lakes, ocean, etc. the last 10 years have seen significant swings in the weather; drought starting in ~2015 that lasted almost 7 years and of course rising average temperatures that exacerbate seasonal issues. Like BC we have a whole shitload of lumber in OR and it’s been getting ugly and will only get worse.
Those petty preferences work when everyone has internal air, as the average person has increased health impacts with climate change and global warming they will die out–the stupid HOA AC rules(sadly not HOAs).
HOAs are like companies with employee policies; they can write whatever they want–whether it would hold up to legal challenge is another matter.
Portland never had much in the way of HOAs, but since much of the building in the last 25 uears has been in suburbs and condos, HOAs now abound outside the city proper. Air conditioning was never really a thing in Portland–growimg up here I never had it and yeah you had 2 really hot weeks in August and you learned to deal with it; pool, basements, lakes, ocean, etc. the last 10 years have seen significant swings in the weather; drought starting in ~2015 that lasted almost 7 years and of course rising average temperatures that exacerbate seasonal issues. Like BC we have a whole shitload of lumber in OR and it’s been getting ugly and will only get worse.
Those petty preferences work when everyone has internal air, as the average person has increased health impacts with climate change and global warming they will die out–the stupid HOA AC rules(sadly not HOAs).