But the Covenant that the homeowners have made with Disney stretches considerably beyond this public governmental realm and into the control of their personal lives, just as the Covenants that the other communities entered into with God or one another cre ated specific rules that governed their lives. For example, the Declaration of Covenants states that no more than two people can sleep in any one bedroom. Any dog or cat that is felt to be a nuisance can be removed from its owners. Each family may onl y hold one garage sale per year, no boats or mobile homes can be parked in front of a house, and only one campaign poster is allowed to be displayed during an election season, and that for only forty-five days. Homeowners have to follow very specific guidelines about what kind of plants and shrubs may be planted in their yards, each house has to be built within a prescribed number of feet from the street and in one of six carefully selected styles.
Fences can o nly reach a certain height so that yards are visible from the street.
Any changes to be made to the exterior of the houses must first be cleared with a committee. All of this social and architectural engineering is supposed to foster a sense of communal living which the thousands of people who have already moved to Celebration felt was lacking in other American communities. And the Walt Disney Company believes th at their community is fulfilling a special purpose through the covenants of its residents. Like earlier utopian communities, Disney has separated Celebration from society so that it might better provide this example. Although it is not as completely self-contained as societies like the Mormo ns were to begin with, Celebration has started its own school system, along with an Institute to train the teachers for the school.