‘Garage’ Rule

The recent article by Alison Samuels, “A Fine Mess” (Aug. 11), succinctly covered the issue of a man using (unobtrusively) his garage for his business interests and how his homeowners’ association was fining him and generally pressuring him to discontinue this use.

This attitude seems to occur in other homeowner associations, and it is truly deplorable. Your neighbors’ concerns surely must be limited to the exterior--to the direct impact on themselves only. Pursuing a man’s activities into his workshop, his garage, his bedroom is truly morally repugnant, as is the incredibly stupid homeowners’ association rule “prohibiting the ‘storage of any goods in a garage space that prevents a vehicle from being stored there.’ ” This rule must have been written by Marie Antoinette. Let them eat cake and store nothing in their garages but Rolls-Royces.

Fie and a pox on your Princeton Townhouse Maintenance Assn. If your rule and action are not absolute refutations of our constitutional rights, they certainly are inconsistent with the realities of life.

RUSSELL KIESSIG

Dana Point