Community roasts HOA president after he tries to forbid legal hot air balloon landing and regulate aviation: 'Residents are NOT allowed to let balloons land'

This HOA president finally discovered the limits to his authority.

This community happened to be located in an area where there were frequent hot air balloon landings. This became common practice, and everyone in the neighborhood was accustomed to these landings, provided that they were handled safely.

Apparently, one morning, there was another safe balloon landing on one neighbor's five-acre property. No one was harmed or disturbed, and therefore, no one thought anything of it… except for the disgruntled president of the local homeowner's association.

This grumpy individual decided that morning that for whatever reason, he was going to put an end to this practice. Without holding a meeting and administering a vote with the other HOA board members, this man proceeded to send an email blast to everyone in the neighborhood forbidding them from granting any balloon landings in the area from here on out.

This, of course, was a remarkable display of audacity on several levels. First of all, he didn't have the authority to enforce a rule that was not passed by the other board members. Second of all, and more importantly, he had no authority to tell the community to disregard federal aviation regulations. You can imagine how this ultimately went down…

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