Sooooooo, I can buy this village with MY money, but I have to restore it in accordance with YOUR wishes?
I don’t believe this is the village I was looking for. Thank you for your time, and good luck finding a prospective buyer.
Yep, you can buy my rusting ‘58 Corvette, but you will have to restore it to showroom condition and park it in my garage. Oh, and I get the keys on Sunday.
There’s nothing whatsoever wrong with any of that. There are countless examples of covenants attached to property sales — this is just one particular covenant.
The important thing is that buyers know about the requirements or limitations in advance. They can then decide whether or not they want to buy the property, subject to those conditions. If you don’t like the covenants, don’t buy the property. It’s that simple. That’s very, very different from slapping on (say) restrictive zoning requirements after the sale.