Court Opinion

ID: 9787034
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:09:12.476949+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:51.583092
License: Public Domain

THORNE, Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
¶ 10 I concur with the majority's determination to the extent it finds that Brown's solicitations and multiple weekly rentals violated the CC & Rs prohibition of business rentals. I also agree that the trial court was justified in permanently enjoining Brown from renting the residence or otherwise making it available for transient lodging purposes. However, I respectfully dissent from the majority's affirmance of the injunction concerning the advance notice requirement. I believe that the advance notice requirement is overly broad. The injunction states,
This Order and Judgment shall not be construed to prohibit use of the Residence by [Brown]l's family and friends provided [Brown] delivers one-week advance written notice to the president of [the] South Ridge Homeowners' Association listing the name of each family member and friend who will be using the Residence and the expected dates of use.
This requirement unnecessarily obligates Brown to take additional steps, not required of other homeowners, to exercise her right to allow her family and friends to use the residence. Such a requirement, without a demonstration of an actual violation of the in-junetion's prohibition against business use or other affirmative indication that Brown has *762refused to obey the injunction, is not appropriate.
11 Here, any acts in violation of the CC & Rs, as well as any acts to hide impermissible short-term rentals from neighbors, appear to have taken place prior to the injunction and does not justify imposition of anticipatory, indefinite, and restrictive ad-vanee notice requirements of family and friend visits. Further, I believe it inadvisable for this court to modify the trial court's injunction based on the homeowners' association's counsel's assertions at oral argument on appeal that the intent of the injunction is to only require Brown's notification regarding the identity of visitors and the duration of visits when Brown herself is not present to host the visitors. Accordingly, I would reverse the injunction and remand the matter to the trial court for the issuance of a more narrowly tailored injunction.