HOA overreaching on landscaping

[EJ K.]

Hello,

We’re relatively new to a neighborhood and have made our house look like one of the best on the block with the combination of shrubs, annuals and perennials. I get this is subjective but it’s pretty much an objective statement...

we finally wanted to do a larger job with a berm and 4 7 foot evergreens... they rejected it and said too big... ok so we downsized to even higher end spruces...


their response was that we can only plant things in the front that are in the declarations...


their declaration states that that list is the list approved for 5 feet within a side walk or in the parkway so not applicable. 

The kicker is that plenty of people have trees that aren’t on that list in the front. Is their selection bias enforceable.

backstory is our annual income is way above the average in the neighborhood and there is no way anything we would do would drop the value. We’re physicians and this is a blue collar neighborhood... maybe there is jealousy? I don’t know. I just want to know what I can do next.

I threw at them already that I want 2-300 k landscaping with a pool in the back and their eyes lit up... I’m probably going to just buy unincorporated and move at this point, it’s offensive to ask to plant anything when our house is already top end