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Letter: Associations should be more tolerant

Friday, April 23, 2004 | 8:50 a.m.

I read with interest your April 19 editorial headlined, "Green, green grass ... of associations."

I recently moved to Summerlin. One of the reasons I moved here is because it is a well-maintained community. I too live within the confines of an association. It can be petty and bureaucratic.

Associations tend to fill their leadership posts with people who have little else to do than to tell others how to behave. I observed this for decades in California. There, no one is now safe from the petty controls imposed by people who just can't stand a little exercise of free will, or in the case of synthetic grass (as is the issue here), common sense. Tolerance has no place in California.

Here, the old, but now dying Republican motto of less government works well. If applied to associations, all of us could continue to live in safe, clean neighborhoods with a premium placed on tolerance as opposed to control.

LANCE T. WEIL

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