Santa Ana, CA HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

Santa Ana's condo-conversion rules put HOA governance on the city's checklist, not just the developer's. ' That plan must include a long-term maintenance schedule and operations standards; draft CC&R provisions setting out the rules of project governance and management, expressly including establishment of a board of directors, its duties, powers, election and replacement; a statement on how vacant or unsold units will be managed; and a current structural pest control inspection report, valid no more than ninety days, showing the property free of termite, dry-rot, fungi and related damage.

This sits alongside Section 34-334's tenant assistance plan and Section 34-333's conversion plan, which the planning manager reviews before any tentative map for the conversion can be approved. The governance requirement means a Santa Ana HOA's founding board structure is not left to the CC&Rs alone to define after the fact, the city reviews the draft board-of-directors provisions as part of the conversion approval, before unit owners ever take title. Chapter 34's Article XII imposes a parallel but separate governing-document requirement on commercial and industrial common interest developments, so a residential apartment-to-condo conversion follows Section 34-335, not the commercial track.