Fullerton, CA HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

20, Article II: Planned Residential Development, of Fullerton's zoning title. Subsection (A) requires the PRD's common open space, easements and recreational facilities to be conveyed to an independent homeowners association organized as a state nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, whose job is the permanent retention and maintenance of those common areas. ' The 'or the city' language matters: it means the same collection machinery the HOA uses on its own dues also has to be built to enforce a city-levied assessment against a PRD lot, tying private HOA enforcement to a municipal revenue tool.

Under subsection (B), the association's founding documents, including whatever assessment and lien procedures it adopts, must be approved by the City Attorney at the time of, and as a condition of, PRD concept-plan approval, so a project cannot get its concept plan approved with governing documents that skip this requirement. The requirement dates to Ord. 2982, adopted in 2001, and has not been superseded elsewhere in Title 15. It layers on top of, rather than replaces, the general assessment and lien procedures the state Davis-Stirling Act gives every California common-interest development; Fullerton's addition is the city's own gatekeeping role at project approval and the extension to city-levied charges.