You really have to meet these things head on. Our deed restrictions expired and the dozen little old ladies who ran this place assumed they could simply ram them back through in a board meeting that nobody would attend. I walked the neighborhood and knocked on everyone's door. We had several emergency meetings and each time the biddies were hoping they could get the votes but each time more people showed up saying no.
At the annual meeting the deed restrictions were finally voted down by a 4 to one margin in the highest turnout in the history of this 40 year old community.
You just have to ask people what they realy want and most will say they want to be left alone. Of course there still are those 14 people who hate my guts ;-)
