Goodyear, AZ HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)
Key Facts
- Enforcing body for CC&Rs
- Subdivision's own Property Owners' Association board
- City-enforced regulations
- Building code, subdivision code, zoning ordinance, design standards
- Governing section
- Zoning Ordinance § 3.3, items 8-9
- Conflict rule
- More restrictive of the Development Regulations applies
- HOA formation requirement
- Every subdivision must establish a POA and board
Summary
Under Goodyear's Zoning Ordinance, every subdivision must form a Property Owners' Association and board of directors to administer and enforce the covenants, conditions, and restrictions recorded against the lots, plus run common facilities. The city, by contrast, enforces its own Development Regulations, the building code, subdivision code, zoning ordinance, and design standards, through separate city staff and inspectors.
8. Each subdivision shall establish a Property Owner's Association and a Board of Directors to administer and enforce required covenants, conditions, and restrictions and to oversee the operation of common facilities. 9. Compliance with all applicable laws, codes, ordinances, rules, regulations, standards, guidelines, conditions of approval, which includes by way of example but not limitation: the Building Codes and Regulations (currently Chapter 9 of the Goodyear City Code), the Subdivision Regulations adopted by the City of Goodyear (currently Chapter 15 of the Goodyear City Code), the City's Zoning Ordinance, the City of Goodyear's Design Guidelines Standards, the City of Goodyear Engineering Design Standards and Policies as they all may be adopted and amended from time to time ("Development Regulations"). If there are any inconsistencies between the Development Regulations, the more restrictive requirements apply.
Full Breakdown
' That puts day-to-day CC&R enforcement, architectural review and use of common areas under a specific subdivision's recorded documents, squarely with the private HOA board, not with any city department. 3(9), draws the line the other direction: it obligates every property in the subdivision to comply with the city's own 'Development Regulations,' defined to include the Building Codes and Regulations in Chapter 9 of the Goodyear City Code, the Subdivision Regulations in Chapter 15, the Zoning Ordinance itself, the city's Design Guidelines Standards, and the Engineering Design Standards and Policies.
Those are enforced by city code compliance and building safety staff, independently of whatever the HOA board does with the CC&Rs. 3(9) also sets a conflict rule for the city's own regulations: where they disagree with each other, 'the more restrictive requirements apply,' illustrated by its own example that if a City Design Standard is stricter than the Zoning Ordinance on the same point, the Design Standard controls. A homeowner cited by the city cannot resolve the citation by pointing to an HOA vote, and an HOA cannot waive a Development Regulations requirement on the city's behalf.
Residents with a CC&R dispute, an assessment fight, or an architectural denial take it to the HOA board; residents with a zoning, building, or subdivision-code problem take it to the City of Goodyear.
Violations & Fines
The city does not cite property owners for CC&R breaches such as paint color, fence style approvals, or HOA assessment defaults; those stay with the Property Owners' Association board under Section 3.3(8). What the city does cite, through code compliance and building safety, is noncompliance with the Chapter 9 building code, Chapter 15 subdivision regulations, the Zoning Ordinance, and adopted design standards under Section 3.3(9), independent of any HOA action.
Frequently Asked Questions
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