[Arrowhead1952]

I failed to mention that we live on a golf course and the city does not want to have “unsightly” views for the golfers to have to endure while playing. The HOA is really nit picky about where you park a boat or vehicles. Lucky for us, we live on a street corner and have two entrances to the driveway.

No greeneyes, there is not a limit to the number of 55 gal tanks, but they need to be hidden with shrubs. My neighbor has several 55 gal drums, but they are a dark green so the city hasn't said anything - yet.

[rightly_dividing]

I had heard the stories of HOA's that would not allow parking on the grass or even in the driveway, only in the garage. We are fortunate to have an easy going one. The rules here are not too bad. They mainly want to know in advance of any fences or changes to the footprint of the house or outbuildings, and to keep new structures the proper distance from the street or property line. All the HOA's in Houston just struck me as diametrically opposite of the freedoms usually associated with Texas. We are blessed with larger yards here than in Houston. There they would use as a selling feature, a large yard at 7000sq ft. Some yards did not have access for a vehicle to enter the back yard. We are blessed to have 2/3 acre where we are, about what we had inside the city in Mobile.

We really like it here, but Texas really is a whole 'nother world from life in the south, where the only HOA's are in the very richest neighborhoods behind brick walls, with guarded entrances.

[greeneyes]

Hidden with shrubs? Really-does it have to be shrubs? How about lattice type trellis wouldn’t that work?

[Darth Reardon]

How about hiding them behind a lemon tree?

The white barrels are water collected from a downspout.