The landscape committee at Wasatch Commons wanted to know where we needed to plan and where we could ignore. About half said common. It became apparent people were thinking in terms of flowers, with someone else doing the work, presumably us. While the land is commonly owned, you might say the resident is allowed vegetative rights. In practice that hasn't always happened.
Most parents have grass in varying amounts.
Despite being asked not to, the kids frequently trample through anyway. So for some households the path acts as a part of the front yard. This makes a couple of us who were looking forward to that unhappy. The landscape committee has considered taking its own steps to stop people shortcutting from the parking lot across a common area, because the lawn is looking increasingly ratty and will have to be aerated and reseeded. No fair for other people's laziness to increase our workload.