Bill Could Limit HOA Control Over RVs and Food Trucks

STATEHOUSE — Your homeowner’s association might not be able to keep people from having RVs or food trucks in the neighborhood, if a bill discussed Tuesday (HB1389) on the Indiana Senate floor becomes law. Some lawmakers feel that is a threat to property values.

“Sometimes HOAs become a little too aggressive,” said Sen. Mike Bohacek, of LaPorte County, who supports the bill.

He cited a bill from 2022 that would keep HOAs from prohibiting the installation of solar panels as precedent.

“Sometimes when there’s new technology they want to force that technology. And, sometimes we have to step in and make sure that they don’t,” he said.

Sen. Michael Young, of Indianapolis, spoke passionately on the bill, which he believes takes protections away from Hoosiers who have worked hard to pay for homes and who don’t want to see bulky vehicles clogging driveways.

“What happens if I bought this house and I bought it because we weren’t gonna have a 48 ft. RV sitting in the neighborhood during the winter or a food truck?” he asked. “Now I’ve got a ..food truck that looks horrible setting [sic] in the driveway right next to my property and now the provision that I can use to keep that food truck out is now gone!”

It wasn’t clear if the Senate took any action on the bill Tuesday.