Considering how rampant and meaningless HOAs are I am not really sure things are better here too. My co-worker here has been fighting a losing battle for the past year to get solar panels on his roof.
That's already much more restrictive than even inner-city rules in the Netherlands. Solar panels don't require permission, only bigger changes that affect neighbors do.
Except that the VVE thing in the Netherlands is only customary for apartment buildings (and then limited to only within the building) while in some places in the US the HOAs have grown to control neighbourhoods of detached housing.