Oxnard, CA HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

Division 13 of Oxnard's zoning code exists to implement the state ADU law, Cal. 2(A)(1) already requires the city to approve a compliant ADU or JADU application ministerially, without discretionary review or a public hearing. 2(A)(4) closes the gap an HOA might otherwise fill: it expressly states that a homeowners' association may not influence that ministerial city approval, citing Cal. Gov't Code Section 66317(c), and that an association's covenants, conditions and restrictions cannot prohibit or unreasonably restrict the construction or use of an ADU or JADU on a lot zoned to permit single-family residential uses.

In practice, that means a recorded CC&R clause purporting to ban second units, or requiring a design-review sign-off before one can be built, is unenforceable against an ADU or JADU that otherwise meets the city's Division 13 standards. The provision reaches only ADU/JADU-specific restrictions; it does not, on its own text, address an HOA's authority over unrelated matters that a CC&R independently regulates. 13 sets the priority order for the whole division: where this division conflicts with other provisions of the city code, the division controls, but where it conflicts with state law, the mandatory requirements of state law control.

That structure means Oxnard has written the state ADU protections against HOA interference directly into its own code rather than leaving residents to rely on Sacramento alone, so a resident whose association objects to an ADU has a city ordinance, not just a state statute, to point to.