Excellent! Glad your neighborhood was able to avert total disaster. Keep after it; talk to people, certainly new people — explain the set-up. Most people don't pay attention to what they are signing on to at settlement.
One good thing done a few years ago here was that a few of us got our board to create and publish a condensed version of the by-laws containing the most important community rules and general info-- what is our board's responsibility, what is the county's, when are the trash and recycling pickups and what are the rules for putting cans out, what are the dog rules and the pool rules, permits for outside renovations, how to be a courteous neighbor, etc.
That "rules" document is one sheet of heavy, colorful paper printed on both sides, distributed to every door, and also appears on the community's web site. During the pandemic so many people were home all day and impinging on others, it had to be reissued—and it has helped a great deal with trespassing, lawn maintenance, trash and dog issues.
I’m glad we have some nice folks on the board, neighborly types. That poor family with the husband/father passing was quite new to the neighborhood, so nobody really knew why all the cars were there one weekend. Then the grass grew in his absence. I don’t think that one woman was the least bit ashamed of herself for sending that letter first. That’s how she handled everything. Oh, yes, this happened during the pandemic, too. He may have even been a covid casualty. Nobody really wanted to pry like that, but it could have been that.
I like your idea of condensing things down to one page front and back. Our documents on the website are almost 20 pages long. I know that’s for legal stuff, but condensing it would be great.