Hello and thanks for bringing your question to Pearl.com. Deed restrictions can trump building plans that are approval by local authorities. Most often they will be more restrictive. If deed restrictions are disregarded, usually either the association or any member can sue to enforce them. That would mean a court battle to have a judge make the final determination. Therefore, it might be unwise to commence construction before the issue has been fully settled and agreed upon by the architectural committee. The question of whether you measure from the deck or the house itself is so specialized that I cannot comment on it from this distance. There are many factors which might affect that question. I hope that this has been helpful.

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I was referring to things like the depth of the lots, if the deck is attached to house & how; how other similar structures in the community were measured. How specific are the deed restrictions when it comes to measuring set-backs etc...