Bees…Important…maybe not in a subdivision … Deerwood Realty and Friends…Ep. 28

HOA resident moves three beehives off her property to avoid $100 a day fines

Matthews calls itself a bee city, but just maybe that didn’t work out…what if they called themselves an alligator city? An ocelot city?

“I think it’s unfortunate that a community doesn’t welcome bees, but I understand there were some issues,” Mayor John Higdon said. There’s a difference between welcoming bees and getting stung by them…No?

The bees had stung a puppy, so the neighbors went to the HOA and reported that the hive was a huge concern….now…how can we know that the bee that stung the puppy was from this hive?

The HOA claims the bees are a violation of its no raising or keeping of animals clause. So is an insect an animal? I asked Google and it said yes. If the bees are an animal, and the HOA has a policy against raising animals, where is the confusion here?

“the importance of public policy behind beekeeping and why we need them (bees) continues forward”…So, who is arguing that bees aren’t important?

She said she plans to start a petition and lobby for an expansion of state protections for beekeepers. Currently the Honey Bee and Honey Act of 1977 offers some protections for small beekeepers, but it doesn’t apply to neighborhood HOAs. In this case, is the HOA doing the right thing?

Just a couple of thoughts/questions….

1. How hard is it for people to read the rules and regulations of an HOA BEFORE they move there?

2. Why is it OK for this woman to decide to keep 3 beehives in her backyard when she lives in a neighborhood? What’s the line? For example, what if someone kept 4 lions in their backyard? Bee stings can kill people, and so can lions.

3. It goes back to this understanding that you live in a neighborhood. And, the HOA, employed correctly, is set up to allow people to live in peace and free from fear of tiger dens or bees.

4. HOA’s get a bad deal because they get stuck enforcing rules…even when unpopular.

5. There’s this need for representation. In this story, the HOA nor the person who filed the complaint wanted to speak to the press. So, they were not represented in a positive light in the story. Which opinion, to those who actually live in the HOA, is the correct one? Keep a bunch of bees in the backyard or not? Is the HOA the silent majority because those that choose to live there are agreeing to the rules by nature of them living there?

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Source Homeowner forced by HOA to move the hives in fight over backyard bees | State and Regional News | independenttribune.com

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