AJL wrote:

Those neighborhoods in your town which are obviously not HOA
supervised are run exactly as the people in the neighborhood want
them run. If you like living next door to a bodega or a tire-repair
shop, you'll gravitate to locations where you have all those types
of conveniences.

It's not quite that bad since there are still zoning regulations in
the HOA free areas. They are usually enforced by complaint though
there are zoning officers that roam when they're not busy. First is
usually a warning and then if there is no compliance, a citation.
Phoenix makes it easy, you can make a zoning complaint by phone, net,
or text.


I'm in Houston. We don't have zoning.

some rascal in your unregulated area tries to take
advantage by opening a mini-abattoir. In that case, several options
are available to you, few of them legal but all of them effective.

Just remember that if you decide to self-enforce, and you live in the
same neighborhood, turn about may be fair (foul?) play...

Good point! That's exactly why your first response has to be of such
overwhelming force as to absolutely remove both the desire and the ability
of the miscreant to respond. That is, what can we throw at his house other
than an egg?

Hmm. Here's a bottle of a flammable liquid with a rag stuffed in the spout.
Wonder if that would work?