Opinion: Hateful words don t belong in property deeds
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Kanin Arimura, 6, climbs a tree at the park of the Old Braeswood community on which she is a resident. She visited the park with her mother and sister on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
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Regarding “Racist restrictions,” (A12, Feb. 11): In 2019, the Old Braeswood Property Owners Association decided to eliminate the racist language from the deed restrictions. Although we knew that such language was not enforceable, we strongly believed that it did not belong in our deed restrictions.
We spent a lot of time and effort to collect signatures from 75 percent of OBPOA owners and spent a good amount of money on legal representation and filing fees, but we succeeded in deleting such language from the restrictions.
A12 traffic: Air ambulance to land after four-vehicle crash and lorry overturned on major road
The road is shut in both directions
The road is now completely shut (Image: Essex Roads Policing Unit North)
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