Community Insider Spring 2020 | Page 29

conversions. Owners should be advised that their garage conversion will result in a loss of parking with no replacement being offered. That may help stem the tide of garage conversions in HOAs with restrictions on street parking. Fortunately, associations can enact other reasonable restrictions, so long as such restrictions do not effectively prohibit the construction of ADUs or JADUs, or unreasonably increase their cost. Of course, the legislature has provided no definition to assist in determining whether a given restriction is “reasonable,” so the ultimate effect of that language remains to be seen. /cai.sd /in/caisandiego WWW.CAI-SD.ORG | 29