I was agreeing with your husband until I saw HOA. I hate HOAs, POAs, all of those guys. If you bow to the HOA, the terrorists win. Go get you some aigs!
Yeah!! Technically, we live "through" a development, and only pay dues for road clearing in winter. We are on the back side of it, and nobody will ever see my chickens anyway, except my 2 closest neighbors and they already know about them. And if anyone actually said anything, I could probably argue that we don't live "in" the development. I'm off work tomorrow, so I was thinking I might make the hour plus drive myself... if he goes to work, he'll never know! lol