California Law Revision Commission receives comments on its recommendations for architectural review procedures
The Commission grinds onward with sixteen pages of comments it has received from three people on its recommendation that existing California case law on architectural review should be codified--meaning, written into statutory law. The subtance of the law would say that architectural review decisions (request by owners to alter or add to their separate unit or interest) should be "made in good faith, pursuant to a fair and reasonable procedure, and that the decision not be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious." Decisions would have to be put in writing, and if denied, the owner would have a "right of reconsideration by the board of directors" who denied the original request.
You can read the whole thing here.