The only place I have been in an HOA is Texas. The home before this one had it in the covenants that they rules could not be changed without at least 75% of the homeowner's approval. This HOA states that the elected board can make changes. Their reasoning is that the board is elected by the homeowners to do run the HOA. Tomorrow night is a meeting and I am proposing that changes be put to a vote from now on. Doubt that this will go over well.
Our neighborhood is quite large - over 850 homes. Every few years there is upswell of people that think that placing cameras at the entrances will solve all our crime problems (which is nearly non-existent anyways). With that many homes, 8 entrances to the community, and several roads that are "cut through" roads used by hundreds of non-residents everyday (and at all times of the day), I keep telling people that CCTV cameras would be a complete waste of money. They always compare our situation to another nearby neighborhood that has two entrances and maybe 150 homes. Funny how I've never heard of a single event being solved by their two cameras at each entrance (which are installed on the same pole, about 15' in the air looking down at a steep angle). In fact, I've long suspected their cameras are actually fake. I'd support fake cameras for our neighborhood, but not the real thing.
| Camera | Focal length (mm) | Measured VFOV (deg) | Spec VFOV (deg) | Best resolution @ distance |
| Color-X 2.8 mm BY | 5.42 | 60.0 | 61 | 1.06 mm @ 4.7 ft |
| Color-X 3.6 mm GB | 6.71 | 50.0 | 50 | 0.94 mm @ 5.2 ft |
| Color-X 3.6 mm GL | 6.85 | 49.1 | 50 | 1.19 mm @ 6.6 ft |
| Color-X 6 mm Avenue | 10.72 | 32.6 | ??? | 2.38 mm @ 23ft |
| Color-X 6 mm Corner | 10.01 (noisier data) | 34.7 | ??? | 2.38 mm @ 19 ft |
| 81230 FD | 13.64 | 32.7 | 26-77 | 0.67 mm @ 6 ft |
