Housing:governing documents: rental or leasing of separate interests: accessory dwelling units.

Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Existing law provides that an owner of a separate interest in a common interest development shall not be subject to a provision in a governing document or an amendment to a governing document that prohibits the rental or leasing of any separate interest in that common interest development to a renter, lessee, or tenant unless that governing document, or amendment thereto, was effective before the date the owner acquired title to the owner's separate interest. Existing law permits an owner of a separate interest of a common interest development, despite the above provision,…