Our HOA president has made it pretty clear he's not a fan of EVs and he's been blocking anything he considers a "permanent modification" to detached garages, even though those garages are owned outright by us, not common property. I've tried to reason with him about it being inside a garage, not visible from the street, nothing structural, and he's not budging.
Here's the thing though — the previous owner already had a 240V outlet put in that garage years ago for a shop tool, table saw or something similar from what I can tell. It's just sitting there unused now. Can I just plug a portable Level 2 charger into that existing outlet without touching anything else? Would that even count as an "installation" the way the HOA seems to define it, or am I in the clear since nothing new is being added to the structure?
