HOA squabble




The Calabasas Park property owners are surrounded by lovely common areas that they once owned and controlled through their homeowners association, the Calabasas Park Homeowners Association (CPHA).

Their association has been taken over by people who are also members of other homeowners associations in Calabasas and thus do not live in Calabasas Park.

Though the Calabasas Park property owners have lost their own homeowners association and are now ruled by nonresidents, they are still liable for the property and the only people taxed by the city to maintain it. This exists because they have no voice on the CPHA board of directors or with the city, because the nonresidents decide who is chosen as board directors from Calabasas Park.

This year those directors offered and approved a resolution to give up all exclusive powers assigned to them in the CPHA bylaws, a resolution that finalizes the takeover of the CPHA by the nonresidents.

The Calabasas Park property owners have it within their power to change all this by simply amending their CC&Rs so they are no longer forced to be members of the CPHA and alone select their directors. Hopefully they will do this before matters become critical, like being forced to pay a very large special assessment or the sale of common area property, for then it will be too late.

Michel Jacoby
Calabasas



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