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Rolph: Enforcement of Sun City CC&Rs impossible

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The Sun City residents who use the honor system to abide by the CC&Rs are witnessing how unenforceable the Sun City age restrictions and other HOA rules are.

The Sun City Home Owners Association board of directors have managed to amend, change and tailor the ambiguous CC&Rs to make enforcement completely impossible. The board boasts how tough they are on yard enforcement to rescue Sun City from the evils of tall weeds. And I am always happy to see weed free yards.

But the bigger risk is Sun City will eventually lose the Maricopa County age overlay designation and become a repeat of Youngtown thanks to subjective, ambiguous and unenforceable CC&Rs.

For example, Article 1 taken directly from the Sun City Final Bylaws Nov. 24, 2020 begins word for word with “SCHOA has the right, but not the obligation...” and goes on from there to outline the 12 Article Bylaws. However, to begin the first bylaw article with “SCHOA has the right, but not the obligation” doesn’t give Sun City residents any reason to be confident in the SCHOA or CC&R enforcement. With wording like that, it seems the SCHOA is more ceremonial than anything else.

All of the SCHOA bylaws and CC&Rs are available for everyone to review. Some readers may agree the CC&Rs are ambiguous and subjective, which allows CC&R violations. Other readers may disagree and find the rules clearly defined and see no violations. It is always good for each person to make that determination for themselves and share a comment.

This stuff is important to all Sun City residents.

Mark Rolph

Sun City