News from the WA State Chapter of Community Associations Institute – Posted May 28,2013

Green living sometimes can be at odds with community association living. As much as we all likely strive to live in an environmentally responsible manner, sometimes these ambitions clash with the wants and desires of our neighbors, bringing strife and dissension to a neighborhood. Though the Washington legislature has not attempted regulating chickens, clotheslines or composting (yet), it has enacted legislation affecting a homeowner association’s right to govern solar panels within a community association.  Read more…

The complete statute may be found at: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=64.38.055.