What needs to be done in order to change our bylaws?
I recently received a call from a co-owner whose condominium association has a bylaw restriction against dogs and she wanted to know what she could do to get the bylaw changed.
For any changes made to the bylaws, one must get a sufficient number of co-owners to approve the amendment. In this case the co-owner might argue that based upon a survey of the Americans' Awareness of First Amendment Freedoms developed by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum in Chicago, "one out of five Americans believe that the first amendment grants citizens the right to own and raise pets.” She might also indicate the real estate benefits to allowing pets in the condominium based upon the number of people that have or would like to have pets, assuming, of course, that the association has adequate restrictions to deal with them.