{"id":737,"date":"2009-09-26T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=737"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","slug":"limitations-placed-on-developers-power-to-alter-covenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2009\/09\/26\/limitations-placed-on-developers-power-to-alter-covenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Limitations placed on developer&#8217;s power to alter covenants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Restatement (Third), \u00a7\u00a0 6.21 provides: &#8220;A developer may not exercise a power to amend or modify the declaration in a way that would materially change the character of the development or the burdens on the existing community members unless the declaration fairly apprises purchasers that the power could be used for the kind of change proposed.&#8221; In\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/ctapp\/2007\/20070803\/97018.htm\" target=\"_blank\">North Country Villas Homeowners Ass&#8217;n v. Kokenge, 163 P.3d 1247 (Kan. Ct. App. 2007),<\/a>\u00a0the court adopted this Restatement rule, holding that a developer&#8217;s power to &#8220;amend&#8221; the covenants limiting land to single-family or\u00a0 duplex homes did not include the power to &#8220;revoke&#8221; them entirely by building four-unit housing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Restatement (Third), \u00a7\u00a0 6.21 provides: &#8220;A developer may not exercise a power to amend or modify the declaration in a way that would materially change the character of the development or the burdens on the existing community members unless the declaration fairly apprises purchasers that the power could be used for the kind of change proposed.&#8221; In\u00a0North Country Villas Homeowners Ass&#8217;n v. Kokenge, 163 P.3d 1247 (Kan. Ct. App. 2007),\u00a0the court adopted this Restatement rule, holding that a developer&#8217;s power to &#8220;amend&#8221; the covenants limiting land to single-family or\u00a0 duplex homes did not include the power to &#8220;revoke&#8221; them entirely by building four-unit housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servitudes"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}