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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: ARC/ECC Nonsense Msg# 1230778
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C. Guidelines. Owners are prohibited from placing or erecting structures, light reflecting devices, signs or other obstacles higher than ten (10) inches in the Ocean Pines easement area unless approved by ARC as a variance or exception with a signed maintenance agreement signed by the property owner. In general, this easement area extends from the residence side of a drainage ditch to the roadway edge
This needs clarification. There is the right-of-way owned totally by OPA. If I recall correctly, this is 50 feet with 30 feet of pavement, and 10-foot of grass on either side on most roads. Beyond the OPA-owned right of way on each side of the road is a 10-foot easement. The right-of-way is OPA-owned and common property. The easement is a part of the property owned by the lot owner, but subject to certain use restrictions. Talking about restricting anything in the easement to a height less than 10 inches is pure folly - then again maybe folly is the intent. The easement areas along the roads often contain trees, bushes, lights, and other things. Has anyone even considered the impact of not allowing anything in the easement area over 10 inches high? Take a look at what looks to be the easement areas along the road going to the Yacht Club where the town home are. Look at Clubhouse Drive. PS- this may be in existing Guidelines rubber-stamped by the this board in 2024. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Hi Bruce. The proposed Guidelines would allow OPA to simply confiscate signs placed improperly on OPA common property. Great. I assume OPA common property includes the full width of road right-of-ways in OPA. If my memory is correct, you said in the past that removing signs from association member lots was not possible, or required lengthy due process. However, with regard to board candidate signs, why not make any Guideline provision allowing one board candidate sign per lot, a provision dependent on granting a variance from the DRs not allowing any signs, be based on the lot owner's implicit agreement that more than one sign per candidate would allow OPA to remove any excess signs and throw them away? Without the ability of OPA to remove excess candidate signs, any Guideline is useless. Too long-winded. Or just forbid any board candidate signs. An extremely preferable solution, and in keeping with the actual Declarations of Restrictions. Big picture? Way too many exceptions to thr DRs are, or were, granted over the years to the detriment of this community's property values. |
More likely, a complete lack of understanding of the difference between a right-of-way and an easement.
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