Eastvale HOA Guide: Local Rules for Boards and Owners

The city’s code enforcement page says short-term rentals, meaning homes rented for fewer than 30 days through services like Airbnb and VRBO, are strictly prohibited in the City of Eastvale. It does not describe any permit or exception. To report a suspected rental, the city asks residents to use the My Eastvale app.

Your association can back this up in its own documents. California Civil Code section 4741 does not stop an association from prohibiting rentals of 30 days or less, and a rule in your CC&Rs lets the board act on its own rather than waiting for the city.

The city’s Neighborhood Preservation Standards brochure (citing Municipal Code section 120.05.080 and Zoning Code section 5.8) sets out these rules:

Repairing or dismantling vehicles on a public street is not allowed except for a temporary emergency. On private association streets and in guest lots, your own parking rules and state towing law do the work.

The city contracts through Waste Management with Street Sweeping Corp of America to sweep city-approved arterial, residential, industrial and alley roadways. Sweeping days and times are posted on signs at the main entrance or entrances to each development, and street parking is prohibited during that window wherever the sweeper happens to be on its route.

• The citation is $50 under Municipal Code section 10.20.040.
• Sweeping happens in the rain, and enforcement continues.
• There is no sweeping on New Year’s Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, and missed days are not made up.
• Citation payments and questions go to the Citation Processing Center at (800) 989-2058.

If your community has public streets, a reminder of the posted sweeping schedule in your newsletter can save owners a ticket.

The city says JCSD provides Eastvale’s water, sewer and streetlights. JCSD’s conservation page does not post a current watering schedule, so ask the district at (951) 685-7434 which days and hours apply before you program common-area controllers.

JCSD’s rebate page combines SoCal Water$mart rebates with the district’s own money. Funding is limited and handed out first come, first served. The district says to check product eligibility on SoCal Water$mart first. Items that matter for associations:

JCSD also lists a free irrigation system audit and a turf replacement program on its conservation page. A state law passed in 2023 (AB 1572) will bar the use of drinking water on nonfunctional turf in HOA common areas starting January 1, 2029, and Civil Code section 4735 stops associations from banning low-water plants or artificial turf.

These charges are collected on the County of Riverside property tax bill and are separate from association dues. The city operates:

• Landscape and Lighting Maintenance District 89-1C (Zones 10, 33, 41, 79, 85, 111, 115, 116, 147, 151 and 156) and LLMDs 2014-1, 2014-3 and 2014-4, which pay for enhanced landscaping and related maintenance beyond what the city normally provides.
• Benefit Assessment District 2014-2, for drainage, flood control and street lighting.
• Community facilities districts 2017-1 (Goodman Commerce Center), 2017-2 (Sendero), 2019-1 (Cloverdale Estates) and 2020-1 (Hamner Place, not currently assessed). The city says all of its CFDs are non-bonded maintenance service districts.

JCSD runs its own CFDs and landscape districts in Eastvale, and the city’s FAQ says CFD taxes can go to JCSD, the Corona-Norco Unified School District or both. The city uses NBS to administer its districts, and the NBS property search shows which districts cover a parcel and the current rates.

A board answering tax bill questions should send owners to that lookup rather than estimating the charge.

The city’s FAQ says maintenance of trees in city right-of-ways, greenbelts and parkway landscaping is provided by JCSD, and problems should be reported to the district at (951) 685-7434. That matters for associations whose perimeter walls back onto a public parkway: the parkway may not be yours to maintain.

The Neighborhood Preservation Standards brochure adds that landscaping in the right-of-way next to a home is the adjoining owner’s responsibility unless a community facilities district or landscape maintenance district maintains it. Front and side yards visible from the street must be landscaped and kept up, and dead, decayed or hazardous trees or landscaping in those yards must be fixed within 7 days of a Code Enforcement notice.

The city contracts with Riverside County for fire services, which CAL FIRE provides. Fire Station 27 is at 7067 Hamner Avenue and Station 31 is at 14491 Chandler Street. The fire non-emergency line is (951) 657-2161. The city’s fire services page does not post weed abatement deadlines or fire hazard zone information, so ask the non-emergency line if your association maintains open space or slopes.

Police services come from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, based at the Jurupa Valley Station at 7477 Mission Boulevard. The non-emergency line is (951) 776-1099, answered 24 hours a day.

Waste Management provides Eastvale’s trash and recycling service. The city’s recycling page does not spell out how state organics rules (SB 1383) apply to multifamily properties, so if your association contracts for shared bins, ask Waste Management at (800) 423-9986.