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Grassroots Advocacy Campaign Needs Your Assistance
As part of its mission to build better communities, Community Associations Institute (CAI) educates legislators at the state and national level, and advocates for legislation that will benefit homeowners, managers, and common interest communities as a whole. The...
AB 786 – Clarification on Association’s Ability to Discipline Members Who Fail to Water Landscape in Times of Drought
AB 786 is a piece of emergency legislation adopted earlier this year in response to California’s drought conditions. The bill clears up an ambiguity created in 2014. Last year, SB 992 amended Civil Code section 4735 to provide an exception to the law that an...
AB 349 Signed into law – Associations May NOT PROHIBIT Artificial Turf
On September 4th, Gov. Brown signed AB 349 into law, as an urgency statute – effective immediately. AB 349, which the community Association industry and CAI-CLAC have followed closely, amends Civil Code section 4735 and limits the right of a community association to...
California Regulations Mandate Stricter Maintenance Requirements for Community Association Pools
Community pools provide welcome relief from summer heat. They also impose certain obligations on operators of those pools, including community associations. Recent regulations adopted by the California Department of Health define “public pools” to include pools...
The Many Reasons to Support the Buck-A-Door Campaign
As a community manager, I attend the monthly educational luncheons presented by Community Associations Institute – Orange County Regional Chapter (CAI-OCRC) and listen to the CLAC “Moment” presented by the Legislative Support Committee. However, I never fully...
After Your Inaugural Ball: No Gridlock or Filibusters Allowed in the HOA Boardroom
Just imagine how attentive politicians would be to "the people's business" if they faced personal liability to the voters for financial losses resulting from "doing nothing" or "going too far"? In America, once someone wins an election to public office, the only thing...
Paying for Affordable Housing by Making Housing Unaffordable?
The goal of California Assembly Bill 1335, authored by Speaker Toni Atkins, is to create affordable rental and owner-occupied housing. We all support affordable housing; in fact, common interest developments provide affordable housing to seniors and to buyers entering...
Leading the Charge on the California Drought
The current drought endured by the state of California is not its first rodeo. Between 1987 and 1992 the second driest period in California history ravaged much of our country not the least of which, in the southwest. Fast forward nearly 20 years and front and center...
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