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.