Fountain Valley Chateau Blanc Homeowner's Ass'n v. Department of Veterans Affairs

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

Like Shel Silverstein’s proverbial Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout, the petitioner in this case, Robert S. Cunningham, would not take the garbage out. So, reminiscent of Sarah’s daddy who, in the famous poem would scream and shout, Cunningham’s homeowners association did the modem equivalent. It instituted litigation. The association’s theory in essence was that Cunningham’s property constituted a fire hazard. Local fire authorities, however, determined that his property posed no fire hazard, either indoors or outdoors. Even so, the lawyers for the homeowners association wrote…