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Common Interest Development Law

    The objective of the common interest development law study is to set a clear, consistent, and unified policy with regard to the formation and management of common interest developments and the transaction of real property interests located within them. The study seeks to clarify the law and eliminate unnecessary or obsolete provisions, consolidate existing statutes in one place in the codes, and determine to what extent common interest housing developments should be subject to regulation. This is a multi-year project.
    While the Commission intends to study all CID issues that are presented to it, one part of the study has been accelerated: nonjudicial dispute resolution. It is hoped that improved dispute resolution mechanisms will help defuse many of the problems that arise between a homeowners association and its members or between residents of a CID.
    If you have questions or comments on this study, send email to Brian Hebert at bhebert@clrc.ca.gov. The Commission is not able to provide advice regarding specific problems you may be having in your CID. However, there are other state agencies that do provide information that may be helpful to you.

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Legislation

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Final Recommendation

  • Recommendation -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Pre-Print) (December 2007)

  • Recommendation -- Common Interest Development Ombudsperson (March 2005)

  • Recommendation -- Preemption of CID Architectural Restrictions (November 2004)

  • Recommendation -- Obsolete Cross-References to Former Code of Civil Procedure Section 383 (November 2004)

  • Recommendation -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Review and Decisionmaking (February 2004)

  • Recommendation -- Alternative Dispute Resolution in Common Interest Developments (September 2003)

  • Recommendation -- Common Interest Development Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (December 2002)

  • Recommendation -- Organization of Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act (September 2002)

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Tentative Recommendations and Other Requests for Comment

  • Tentative Rec. -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (June 2007) -- Comments Due: 9/21/2007

  • Tentative Rec. -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (September 2004) -- Comments Due: 12/31/2004.

  • Tentative Rec. -- Preemption of CID Architectural Restrictions (September 2004) -- Comments Due: 10/29/2004.

  • Tentative Rec. -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Review and Decisionmaking (November 2003) -- Comments Due: 1/20/2004

  • Tentative Rec. -- Alternative Dispute Resolution in Common Interest Developments (December 2002)

  • Tentative Rec. -- Common Interest Development Law: Organization of Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act; Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (May 2002)

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Meeting Minutes

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Staff Memoranda

  • Memo 2008-43, Supp. 4 -- 2008 Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (9/3/2008)

  • Memo 2008-43, Supp. 3 -- 2008 Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (08/29/2008)

  • Memo 2008-43, Supp. 2 -- 2008 Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (08/26/2008)

  • Memo 2008-43, Supp. 1 -- Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (08/25/2008)

  • Memo 2008-43 -- Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (07/10/2008)

  • Memo 2008-28, Supp. 2 -- Common Interest Development Law: Priorities (Material Received at Meeting) (06/13/2008)

  • Memo 2008-28, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law: Priorities (Public Comment) (06/05/2008)

  • Memo 2008-12, Supp. 4 -- 2008 Legislative Program: Status of Bills (Public Comment) (06/05/2008)

  • Memo 2008-12, Supp. 2 -- 2008 Legislative Program: Status of Bills (06/02/2008)

  • Memo 2008-12, Supp. 1 -- 2008 Legislative Program: AB 1921 (Saldaņa) (05/29/2008)

  • Memo 2008-28 -- Common Interest Development Law: Priorities (05/29/2008)

  • Memo 2008-11, Supp. 2 -- 2008 Legislative Program (Material Received at Meeting) (04/21/2008)

  • Memo 2008-11 -- 2008 Legislative Program: Status of Bills (04/07/2008)

  • Memo 2008-5 -- 2008 Legislative Program: Status of Bills (02/05/2008)

  • Memo 2007-55, Supp. 3 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Material Received at Meeting) (12/14/2007)

  • Memo 2007-55, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (12/12/2007)

  • Memo 2007-56 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Draft Recommendation) (12/4/2007)

  • Memo 2007-55, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (12/4/2007)

  • Memo 2007-55 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (11/27/2007)

  • Memo 2007-47, Supp. 4 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (10/26/2007)

  • Memo 2007-47, Supp. 3 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (10/26/2007)

  • Memo 2007-47, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (10/23/2007)

  • Memo 2007-47, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (10/13/2007)

  • Memo 2007-47 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (10/13/2007)

  • Memo 2007-24, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Preliminary Part)  (6/21/2007)

  • Memo 2007-24, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Conforming Revisions)  (6/11/2007)

  • Memo 2007-24 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Staff Draft Tentative Recommendation) (6/1/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04, Supp. 5 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (4/26/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04, Supp. 4 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (4/18/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04, Supp. 3 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (2/23/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (1/25/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (1/23/2007)

  • Memo 2007-04 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Elections (1/16/2007)

  • Memo 2006-33, Supp. 3 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Material Received at Meeting) (8/18/2006)

  • Memo 2006-33, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Discussion of Issues (8/17/2006)

  • Memo 2006-33, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Discussion of Issues (8/15/2006)

  • Memo 2006-33 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Discussion of Issues (8/8/2006)

  • Memo 2006-25, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Association Governance and Dispute Resolution (Public Comment) (6/22/06)

  • Memo 2006-25, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Association Governance and Dispute Resolution (Public Comment) (6/15/06)

  • Memo 2006-25 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Association Governance and Dispute Resolution (5/25/2006)

  • Memo 2006-04, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Public Comment (4/27/2006)

  • Memo 2006-04, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Public Comment (4/10/2006)

  • Memo 2006-12, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Ombudsperson Pilot Project (Material Received at Meeting) (2/23/2006)

  • Memo 2006-04 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Association Governance (2/8/2006)

  • Memo 2006-12 -- Common Interest Development Ombudsperson Pilot Project (Legislative Update) (1/31/2006)

  • Memo 2005-32 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law: Member Rights (9/19/2005)

  • Memo 2005-25, Supp. 2 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Public Comment) (7/13/2005)

  • Memo 2005-25, Supp. 1 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Public Comment) (7/12/2005)

  • Memo 2005-25 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Discussion of Issues) (7/1/2005)

  • Memo 2005-18 -- Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law (Discussion of Issues) (5/6/2005)

  • Memo 2005-17 -- Status of Bills: Common Interest Development Bills (4/29/2005)

  • Memo 2005-10, Supp. 2 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (3/17/2005)

  • Memo 2005-9, Supp. 1 -- Legislative Program: SB 853 (Kehoe) (3/14/2005)

  • Memo 2005-10, Supp. 1 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (3/11/2005)

  • Memo 2005-3 -- Common Interest Development Law: Catalog of Issues (3/7/2005)

  • Memo 2005-10 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Staff Draft Recommendation) (3/2/2005)

  • Memo 2005-2, Supp. 4 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Material Received at Meeting) (1/26/2005)

  • Memo 2005-2, Supp. 3 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (1/20/2005)

  • Memo 2005-2, Supp. 2 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (1/19/2005)

  • Memo 2005-2, Supp. 1 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (1/14/2005)

  • Memo 2005-2 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (1/10/2005)

  • Memo 2004-47, Supp. 1 -- Legislative Program: Technical Follow-Up (11/18/2004)

  • Memo 2004-49 -- Preemption of CID Architectural Decisions (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (11/10/2004)

  • Memo 2004-39, Supp. 3 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (9/28/2004)

  • Memo 2004-39, Supp. 2 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Staff Draft) (9/16/2004)

  • Memo 2004-39, Supp. 1 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Staff Draft) (9/14/2004)

  • Memo 2004-38 -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Decisions and Land Use Law (8/31/2004)

  • Memo 2004-39 -- State Assistance to Common Interest Developments (Staff Draft) (8/9/2004)

  • Memo 2004-27, Supp. 2 -- 2004 Legislative Program: Common Interest Development Law (6/2/2004)

  • Memo 2004-20, Supp. 3 -- State Oversight of Common Interest Developments (Discussion of Issues) (4/20/2004)

  • Memo 2004-23, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law: AB 1836 (Harman); AB 2376 (Bates) (4/14/2004)

  • Memo 2004-20, Supp. 2 -- State Oversight of Common Interest Developments (Discussion of Issues) (4/14/2004)

  • Memo 2004-23 -- Common Interest Development Law: AB 1836 (Harman); AB 2376 (Bates) (4/8/2004)

  • Memo 2004-20, Supp. 1 -- State Oversight of Common Interest Developments (Discussion of Issues) (4/8/2004)

  • Memo 2004-20 -- State Oversight of Common Interest Developments (Discussion of Issues) (3/30/2004)

  • Memo 2004-5, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Review and Decisionmaking (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (2/3/2004)

  • Memo 2004-5 -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Review and Decisionmaking (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (1/23/2004)

  • Memo 2003-37, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law: Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (Comments of Carl H.Lisman) (11/26/2003)

  • Memo 2003-40 -- Common Interest Development Law: CID Information Center (11/7/2003)

  • Memo 2003-36 -- Common Interest Development Law: Architectural Review Procedure (11/5/2003)

  • Memo 2003-37 -- Common Interest Development Law: Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (10/31/2003)

  • Memo 2003-31, Supp. 1 -- Alternative Dispute Resolution Under CID Law (9/9/2003)

  • Memo 2003-32 -- Procedural Fairness in CID Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (9/9/2003)

  • Memo 2003-31 -- Alternative Dispute Resolution Under CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) [Supersedes Memo 03-18 and 1st Supp.] (7/24/2003)

  • Memo 2003-18, Supp. 1 -- Alternative Dispute Resolution Under CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (6/4/2003)

  • Memo 2003-23 -- Procedural Fairness in CID Rulemaking and Decisionmaking: Issues on AB 512 (Bates) (6/2/2003)

  • Memo 2003-18 -- Alternative Dispute Resolution Under CID Law (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (5/5/2003)

  • Memo 2002-55, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Comments of James Lingl) (12/12/2002)

  • Memo 2002-60, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Draft of Tentative Recommendation) (12/9/2002)

  • Memo 2002-55 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Draft of Recommendation) (11/27/2002)

  • Memo 2002-60 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Draft of Tentative Recommendation) (11/18/2002)

  • Memo 2002-58 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (10/23/2002)

  • Memo 2002-44 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Comments on Tentative Recommendation) (8/30/2002)

  • Memo 2002-24, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Draft Tentative Recommendation)  (5/15/2002)

  • Memo 2002-10, Supp. 2 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Additional Information) (5/3/2002)

  • Memo 2002-24 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Draft Tentative Recommendation) (4/12/2002)

  • Memo 2002-9, Supp. 2 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Commentary) (3/25/2002)

  • Memo 2002-10, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Comments on Memorandum) (2/25/2002)

  • Memo 2002-9, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Commentary) (2/25/2002)

  • Memo 2002-10 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Alternative Dispute Resolution (Discussion of Issues) (1/4/2002)

  • Memo 2002-9 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Procedural Fairness in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Draft of Tentative Recommendation) (12/21/2001)

  • Memo 2001-94, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Due Process in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Comment) (11/9/2001)

  • Memo 2001-94 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Due Process in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Staff Draft) (11/5/2001)

  • Memo 2001-63, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law (Materials Received at Commission Meeting) (10/5/2001)

  • Memo 2001-73 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Due Process in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (Staff Draft) (8/13/2001)

  • Memo 2001-63 -- Common Interest Development Law: Structure of Davis-Stirling Act (8/6/2001)

  • Memo 2001-54, Supp. 3 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Administrative Hearing Procedure (Comment Letters) (6/29/2001)

  • Memo 2001-54, Supp. 2 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Administrative Hearing Procedure (Comment Letters) (6/28/2001)

  • Memo 2001-54, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Administrative Hearing Procedure (6/25/2001)

  • Memo 2001-55 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Due Process in Association Rulemaking and Decisionmaking (6/14/2001)

  • Memo 2001-54 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Administrative Hearing Procedure (6/13/2001)

  • Memo 2001-42, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: General Approach (5/10/2001)

  • Memo 2001-42 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: General Approach (5/4/2001)

  • Memo 2001-43 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: Jurisdiction of Small Claims Court (5/4/2001)

  • Memo 2001-44 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Under CID Law: Role of Attorney General (5/3/2001)

  • Memo 2001-31, Supp. 1 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: Discussion of Issues (3/22/2001)

  • Memo 2001-31 -- Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution under CID Law: Discussion of Issues (3/7/2001)

  • Memo 2001-19, Supp. 2 -- Common Interest Development Law: Scope of Project (Background Study) (2/7/2001)

  • Memo 2001-19, Supp. 1 -- Common Interest Development Law: Scope of Project (Background Study) (1/30/2001)

  • Memo 2001-19 -- Common Interest Development Law: Scope of Project (Background Study) (1/22/2001)

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Background Study

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