MASTER PLANNED COMMUNITIES

Master planned communities are large real estate projects that include homes, commercial, retail and community facilities. They have the look and feel of a city within a city. Within the master community are usually found smaller sub-associations. Each sub-association may have its own architectural style.

Members pay two sets of dues, one set to the master association and one to the sub-association. The master association maintains the roads, parks and recreational amenities. The sub-associations maintain the structures and amenities within their own developments.

The California Department of Real Estate defines them as developments consisting of 500 or more separate residential interest managed by a community association. Cal. Code Regs., tit. 10, §2792.32(a)

An examples is the Playa Vista project in Los Angeles.

Updated 8/21/2007