Articles tagged with “design commission”

REAL ESTATE LAW UPDATE: November 2023
The Beauty of Dinosaur Statues is in the Eye of the Beholder

November 11, 2023

Compliance with zoning codes, building codes, and design guidelines is an evergreen topic for the real estate lawyer, and for this newsletter.  A situation that illustrates how those types of rules are enforced recently came to my attention. It involves a house in California that is, to put it bluntly, gaudy.  It looks like it’s […]

REAL ESTATE LAW UPDATE: March 2019
Paint It Black

April 1, 2019

I suspect that in my grandparents’ day, no homeowner would have thought that he or she could control what color the neighbors could or couldn’t paint their houses. Boy, have things changed. Now, it’s news when someone paints their house an obnoxious color and dares the neighbors to do something about it. Three news items […]