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What's the current fence height limit on street-facing sides?

  • Declaration of Covenants, Article IX, §3 — 1998
  • Amendment 3, §2 — 2019

Four feet, measured from finished grade. Amendment 3 (2019) reduced this from the six-foot limit in the original Declaration.

Fences on the street-facing side of any Lot shall not exceed four feet in height, measured from finished grade.
Cited · Amendment 3, §2Supersedes · Declaration Art. IX, §3 (six-foot limit)

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Covenance

Your documents go in. Searchable data comes out.

Four files, forty years apart — later ones change earlier ones without restating them. Covenance indexes the set into the record in force, and every answer cites the section that governs.

  1. PDF · 1998

  2. PDF · 2004

  3. Scanned PDF · 2019

    supersedes → 1998

  4. DOCX · 2024

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plain language, from the retrieved chunk

The governing language in force, stated in plain language from the retrieved section.

the controlling section

Cited · §_____

what it replaced, and when

supersedes §_____ (1998)

Three things to do with a document set.

Find the clause, resolve what amended it, and name what to do about it. Each step needs the one before it.

  • What's the approval window for exterior changes?
    • 60 days from submission; silence deems the plans approved
      In force

    Cited · Article VI, §3

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    Retrieval

    Ask in plain language, get the governing clause with a section citation. Answers are scoped to the asker — a responder sees the whole set, an end user sees only their own scope.

    • Cited to section
    • Scoped by role
    • Per-tenant index
  • Where do I get my grass cut — and how long before a notice?
    • Mow to 6 inches, then a written notice
      In force
    • 14 days to cure before a hearing
      Rules 2024

    Cited · Rules & Regs §8 · supersedes CC&Rs IX, §4

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    Synthesis

    Your documents modify each other. An instrument changes a section without restating it, so the answer in force is spread across the whole set. Covenance indexes each section against the instruments that later changed it and returns the language in force today, with the superseded section named beside it.

    • Amendment-aware
    • Supersession chain
    • Current-record answers
  • A homeowner built a fence without approval. What now?
    • File an ARC variance request
      Next action
    • Board must give 14 days' notice before a hearing
      Procedure

    Cited · Rules & Regs §8 · procedure

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    Recommendation

    A citation tells you the rule. The next question is always what to do about it. Covenance names the action the documents require — the form to file, the notice period to observe, the change the governing body would need to approve — and cites the section that requires it.

    • Cited next action
    • Procedure-aware
    • Refuses when silent

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Association
Broadland HOA
Managed by
All-In-One Community Management
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CC&Rs, bylaws, 3 recorded amendments

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