Should there be villages with no pets?
 

With respect to pets, it seems that there are three types of people.
They are

1) people who love them and think everyone else should love them.
2) people who don't like them and don't want other people bringing their pets onto their lawns or in stores or restaurants and they don't want to live next to neighbors who have noisy pets.
3) people who are neutral - they don't care either way.

I am attempting to come up with a solution where all sides are satisfied. Would it be possible to have one of the new villages be pet-free? You would know going in that you couldn't have a pet and that none of your neighbors could have one.

This would seem to satisfy all parties. If you loved pets, you would probably have more neighbors with pets in those villages that allowed pets. If you didn't love pets, you would live in a village where pets are not allowed - people from an adjacent village could not walk their dogs in the pet-free villages.

And if you are neutral on pets, you could decide if you wanted to live in a village that allowed pets or you could decide if you wanted to live in a pet-free village. This would seem to be a win-win-win. You could live where you wanted and everyone should be satisfied.

But would it work?

And then there are people who like pets but dont want them on their lawn, in stores or restaurants. Those are the people who treat pets like animals and not children.

...........and when the first 'Service Dog' arrives?

And suppose you did come up with a solution where all sides were satisfied, how do you intend to get your solution implemented? Do you really think the developer is going to narrow the group of prospective buyers?

With the number of residents who can't seem to remember the other deed restrictions they agreed to (yard ornaments, white crosses, landscaping, additions, etc.), why would this work any better?

It might increase the demand. Some people are allergic to animals and would like to know that they are buying in a village where that wouldn’t be an issue. In fact, if people knew they would not be bothered by pets, they might pay a premium to live there.

What about a village for those:
- not over 85
- with electric cars
- like to party until morning
Starts to get silly, no?

Non pet village dumb idea.

I think there are.

What?

Well as long as we are introducing novel ideas .....how about a Kid-Free village ?
No noisy grandchildren screeching and splashing in the pools, no young grandchildren .....that shouldn't be....driving around in golf carts, and no loud teenagers playing so called music, need I say more ??

I'd also like to add to that;
NO adult children with a rap sheet living with Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa would be allowed in this Kid-Free village either !

How about a village where the temperature never exceeds 76 degrees and never goes below 72 degrees.

I'll ask again. How do you envision getting any plan you come up with implemented? Because without a plan this thread is just another "what if" game.

Do PETS include wildlife or can they roam the proposed village?

Or how about a village that does not allow deadbeat kids or grandkids living with them.

Hopefully the developer (or one of his employees) reads TOTV and will see that an overwhelming number of villagers would like to have pet-friendly and pet-free villages - and will implement it.

If it works, it works and if it doesn’t work, it will be like De La Mesa - the village with a private park and pool. Apparently that didn’t catch on.