Towns and cities no longer control their local zoning — it’s controlled by Sacramento.
I've long been following the RE market in California. After the "mostly peaceful" year of 2020, there's been increasing demand for gated communities. It's the safety factor.
This new law provides an additional incentive for gated communities: HOA restrictions on land use.
HOA's can be a pain, dictating what color you can paint your house, what kind of plants you can have on your lawn, even if and when you can put out holiday decorations. I once read a CC&R which said that holiday decorations can be set up no earlier than 3 weeks before Christmas, and must be removed within a week after Christmas.
Even so, HOA rules will protect what zoning no longer does -- what size house you can build on your plot.
HOA rules will protect what zoning no longer does — what size house you can build on your plot.
***Until Sacramento takes aim at such things. But elitists don’t like to take down other elitists, they like to take down the middle class.
I doubt very seriously that HOA rules will be allowed to overrule state laws.
I don’t think a private community with an HOA is a way around the new law that says you can put FOUR houses where there used to be ONE.