If you don't want to do something, then don't do it.For example, the chances of indyblue working on restoring cares in the drive for seven years is far greater than the risk of the neighborhood changing the covenants because changing the covenants requires the agreement of a significant portion of the neighborhood to pass.
I have absolutely nothing against indyblue restoring cars in his drive, but I would now choose not to live next to him. As I posted previously I did similar at a house I owned when I was younger, but was glad to leave that place because of a lot of crap that went on in the neighborhood.
My front window is about twenty feet from my neighbors driveway, anything they do there I can hear in my house. I don’t want “the noise of a compressor, sandblaster and lots of dust“ twenty feet from my house. Do any of you really want that? What would your wife say to that? How about families with kids trying to put them to bed early or down for a nap while all that is going on?
So through the covenants of my neighborhood we all agreed we wouldn’t do that. Should we not have that freedom? @phylodog knows what he wants, which is what I also would want if I had 14 acres, but on a small lot I don’t want that. It is great we have choices…
That does not apply to others.