Vacation home owners are getting involved in local issues in their second communities.
"No man is an island, and no vacation home exists in a vacuum. As much as second-homers might try to defy the pull of local issues - even tiny issues - such resistance is sometimes in vain. Bucolic getaways can turn into dens of contention over things like the paint color on the interior walls of a condominium, as happened in Punaluu, Hawaii; the environmental and visual impact of a proposed wind farm on Nantucket Sound five miles off the southern coast of Cape Cod; or whether homeowners around Lake Tahoe, Calif., can put new buoys, boat ramps and piers on their properties."
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