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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Lawn Wars: HOAs vs. Climate Rules

When your HOA says โ€œwater moreโ€ but the city says โ€œwater less,โ€ homeowners are caught in the crossfire

์ž”๋”” ์ „์Ÿ: ์ฃผํƒ์†Œ์œ ์žํ˜‘ํšŒ vs. ๊ธฐํ›„ ๊ทœ์ œ
HOA๋Š” โ€˜๋ฌผ์„ ๋” ์ฃผ๋ผโ€™ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹œ๋Š” โ€˜๋ฌผ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ผโ€™ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ ์† ์ฃผํƒ ์†Œ์œ ์ž๋“ค

*Note: What is an HOA?
A Homeowners Association (HOA) is a private governing body formed by a communityโ€™s residents or a real estate developer to enforce rules and maintain shared spaces.
HOA๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์ฃผํƒ๋‹จ์ง€๋‚˜ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ๊ทœ์น™์„ ์ง‘ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๋™ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ ์‚ฌ์  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Powers: Can issue fines, place liens, or even foreclose on homes for violations.
    ๊ถŒํ•œ: ๊ทœ์ • ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ ๋ถ€๊ณผ, ์œ ์น˜๊ถŒ ์„ค์ •, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ฃผํƒ ์••๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

  • Funding: Operates through mandatory dues from homeowners.
    ์žฌ์›: ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์˜๋ฌด ๋ถ„๋‹ด๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜

  • Scope: Rules often cover landscaping, exterior paint colors, noise levels, and property use.
    ๊ทœ๋ชจ: ์กฐ๊ฒฝ, ์™ธ๋ฒฝ ์ƒ‰์ƒ, ์†Œ์Œ, ๋ถ€์ง€ ํ™œ์šฉ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทœ์ œ

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

For over 75 million Americans living under homeowners associations (HOAs), lawn care can be more than a weekend choreโ€”it can be a legal minefield.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด 7,500๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์ด HOA ๊ทœ์ œ ํ•˜์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ž”๋”” ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ง ์žก์ผ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ๋ฒ•์  ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Case in point: In Florida, Irena Green spent a week in jail after minor HOA violationsโ€”like brown patches in her yard caused by drought-related watering restrictionsโ€”spiraled into lawsuits, arrest warrants, and the threat of foreclosure.
ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค์˜ ์ด๋ ˆ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ๊ฐ€๋ญ„์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ธ‰์ˆ˜ ์ œํ•œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ž”๋””๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด, ์†Œ์†ก๊ณผ ์ฒดํฌ์˜์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์••๋ฅ˜ ์œ„ํ˜‘์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The clash isnโ€™t just about grass. Across the US, residents are facing conflicting demands: water restrictions from local governments vs. โ€œperfect lawnโ€ rules from HOAsโ€”with both sides threatening fines.
์ด ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์€ ์ž”๋”” ๋ฌธ์ œ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ชจ์ˆœ๋˜๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ธ‰์ˆ˜ ์ œํ•œ๊ณผ HOA์˜ โ€˜์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์ž”๋””โ€™ ๊ทœ์ •โ€”์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ ์œ„ํ˜‘์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Re-wilding (๋ฆฌ์™€์ผ๋”ฉ)
    Replacing traditional lawns with native plants to save water and support biodiversity.
    โ†’ ๋ฌผ ์ ˆ์•ฝ๊ณผ ์ƒ๋ฌผ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž”๋”” ๋Œ€์‹  ํ† ์ข… ์‹๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋‹น์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•.

  • Microfarm (๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœํŒœ)
    Small-scale home gardens producing vegetables or herbs, often banned by HOAs.
    โ†’ HOA ๊ทœ์ •์— ์ข…์ข… ๊ธˆ์ง€๋˜๋Š”, ์ฃผํƒ ์•ž๋งˆ๋‹น์˜ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฑ„์†Œยทํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Even eco-conscious changesโ€”like switching to clover lawns, moss, or native plantsโ€”often trigger HOA pushback. In Long Island, one homeowner was sued for โ€œhideousโ€ landscaping despite receiving a government grant to do it.
์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ์  ๋งˆ๋‹น ๊ด€๋ฆฌโ€”์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ํด๋กœ๋ฒ„, ์ด๋ผ, ํ† ์ข… ์‹๋ฌผ๋กœ ์ž”๋””๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์กฐ์ฐจ HOA์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ํ† ์ข… ์‹๋ฌผ์„ ์‹ฌ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ โ€œํ‰๋ฌผ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ๋‹นํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some states are stepping in. Texas passed a law this year forcing HOAs to relax green-lawn mandates during droughts. Colorado, Maryland, and others now require HOAs to allow eco-friendly landscaping.
์ผ๋ถ€ ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ญ„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ HOA๊ฐ€ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ์ž”๋”” ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์˜๋ฌดํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ฝœ๋กœ๋ผ๋„ยท๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ ๋“ฑ์€ HOA๊ฐ€ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋งˆ๋‹น ์กฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ lawn lawfare(์ž”๋”” ์ „์Ÿ ์†Œ์†ก)
โ€œThis is lawn lawfareโ€”using rules and courts to fight over grass.โ€
"์ด๊ฑด โ€˜์ž”๋”” ์ „์Ÿ ์†Œ์†กโ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”์ž”๋””๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ๊ทœ์ •๊ณผ ๋ฒ•์ • ์‹ธ์›€์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ ."

๐Ÿ“Œ green clash(๋…น์ƒ‰ ์ถฉ๋Œ)
โ€œA green clash is brewing between HOAs and climate ordinances.โ€
"HOA์™€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๊ทœ์ œ ์‚ฌ์ด์— โ€˜๋…น์ƒ‰ ์ถฉ๋Œโ€™์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ eco paradox(์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—ญ์„ค)
โ€œWhen eco-friendly actions get punished, itโ€™s the eco paradox in action.โ€
"์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํ–‰๋™์ด ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ๋ฐ›์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด โ€˜์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์—ญ์„คโ€™์ด ํ˜„์‹คํ™”๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Local governments say water conservation is essential amid worsening droughts, but HOAs argue property values depend on curb appeal. Environmentalists are pushing for statewide HOA reform to align neighborhood rules with climate realities.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ญ„ ์‹ฌํ™” ์† ๋ฌผ ์ ˆ์•ฝ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, HOA๋Š” ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ด€์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ํ˜„์‹ค์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ ์ „์—ญ HOA ๊ทœ์ • ๊ฐœํ˜์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When rules collide, Grass becomes a battlefield.

๊ทœ์ •์ด ์ถฉ๋Œํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ž”๋””๋Š” ์ „์Ÿํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… 2025 โ€“ Florida woman jailed over HOA lawn dispute
๐Ÿ“… 2025๋…„ โ€“ ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ์—ฌ์„ฑ, HOA ์ž”๋”” ๋ถ„์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Death, taxes, and severely not chill homeowners associations", Morning Brew, 2025

  • "HOA vs. Drought Laws: State Reforms in Texas and Colorado", AP News, 2024

  • "Water Conservation and Property Values: The Ongoing Debate", National Association of Realtors, 2024

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