Veteran asked to remove signs

The Stonebriar neighborhood in northwest Oklahoma City is a quiet, family addition that looks like many other areas around Edmond–Brick homes around 2,00o square feet. Tall privacy fences. Perfectly manicured Bermuda grass.

Neighboorhood association covenants require:

Well landscaped lots (homeowners are required to spend no less than about $1,000 on flowers, grass, trees and shrubs).

Trash cans be kept out of sight unless it’s trash day.

Only ”for sale” or “for rent” signs can be posted in lots.

Home prices in the new neighborhood start at about $200,000.

Heather Drapeau didn’t mention being surprised by a request to remove several signs posted in the windows and on the fence around her home. She didn’t say if she’d read the homeowner’s association covenants, but she doesn’t see it as a neighborhood rules issue. She thinks her opinion is as valid and protected as her neighbors’ who she says display signs supporting the Edmond North high school Huskies. Drapeau says the neighborhood association looks the other way at those signs, but one of hers that says, ”For Peace Bring The Troops Home Now,” is inflammatory.

“They want this neighborhood to look like all of the other cookie-cutter neighborhoods around here,” Drapeau said.

“But I’m going to keep rattling my saber.”

The former military combat medic has promised to keep the signs up and has no issue going to court about it, she said.

We’ll keep an eye on this story and see how it turns out.

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