Redondo Beach HOA Guide: Local Rules for Boards and Owners

A city handout titled “Short-Term Rentals (Less than 30 days) Not Permitted in Residential Zones” says the zoning code does not allow transient uses in residential zones. The code sections it cites work like this:

• A hotel or motel is any place offering lodging for 30 consecutive calendar days or less, with partial days counted as full days (Redondo Beach Municipal Code 10-2.402(a)(94)).
• Hotel and motel uses are not permitted in the R-1, R-1A, R-2, R-3, R-3A, RMD, RH-1, RH-2 or RH-3 zones (sections 10-2.501 and 10-2.511).
• The city’s acknowledgment form says a code violation can justify canceling the business license.

Those sections are in the city’s main zoning chapter. The Coastal Zone has its own zoning chapter, and we did not confirm how it treats short-term rentals, so a board in the Coastal Zone should ask Planning at (310) 318-0637. Either way, your CC&Rs can ban or limit rentals on their own terms.

On private property, section 3-7.1309 bars parking on a private driveway or other private property without the owner’s consent. Check your towing signs and your CC&Rs before you tow from association property.

The City Council can set preferential parking zones on residential streets by resolution (Article 17, sections 3-7.1701 to 3-7.1706). The steps, as the code describes them:

• A petition signed by two-thirds of the occupants of dwelling units making up at least 50% of the developed frontage of the area.
• A city parking survey. Streets count as heavily impacted when more than 75% of legal spaces are filled and more than 25% are taken by nonresidents.
• A public hearing at the Traffic and Transportation Commission. The zone is not enforced until signs go up.

Once a zone exists, the Police Department issues one permit per vehicle registered to a qualifying residence, plus up to two visitor permits per dwelling and one-day visitor permits. Permits last up to one calendar year and must be renewed. Fees are based on city costs, and the code does not list amounts.

If guest or beach parking is crowding the street outside your community, a petition is one option. The board can share the process with owners, but the petition comes from residents of the affected street.

Redondo Beach’s Coastal Zone is the part of the state coastal zone inside the city’s Area One, mapped in section 10-5.2202. Anyone proposing development there must get a coastal development permit unless the work is exempt (section 10-5.2206). The main exemptions in section 10-5.2208:

• Improvements to existing structures other than single-family homes, if they do not change the intensity of use and are not in a sensitive area.
• Repair and maintenance that does not add to or enlarge a structure. Substantial work on seawalls and similar shoreline structures is not exempt, and neither is replacing 50% or more of a residential structure unless a natural disaster destroyed it.
• Replacing a structure destroyed by a natural disaster, with the same use and location and no more than 10% larger.

Some decisions in the appealable area can go to the California Coastal Commission, generally within 10 working days after the Commission receives the city’s notice (section 10-5.2222). The code’s list of new laws shows Ordinance 3309-25, adopted December 16, 2025, amending this chapter pending Coastal Commission certification, so check for changes.

For a condo building near the water, large repair projects such as balcony, siding or seawall work are the ones to ask about early. Planning handles coastal permits at (310) 318-0637.

Cal Water’s Rancho Dominguez District names Redondo Beach among the communities it serves, so water service, billing and rebates go through Cal Water. Confirm the supplier on your own bill.

Cal Water’s drought page says its customers are in Stage 1 of its water shortage plan, a change it filed effective May 8, 2023. In Stage 1 there are no irrigation day restrictions unless a local ordinance says otherwise, and other restrictions remain in place. We did not find a Redondo Beach watering schedule, so confirm with Cal Water before you set your irrigation timers.

Cal Water’s rebate page lists commercial rebates for smart irrigation controllers, large rotary sprinkler nozzles and pressure-regulated spray bodies. It also lists a residential lawn-to-garden rebate that excludes artificial turf. The page does not mention HOAs, gives no amounts and says programs vary by district, so ask Cal Water what an association account can claim.

Under AB 1572 (2023), the State Water Board lists January 1, 2029 as the date homeowners’ associations and common interest developments must stop using drinking water on nonfunctional turf. Commercial, industrial and institutional properties have until January 1, 2028. The ban does not apply to residential properties, and turf used for recreation or community activities counts as functional.

The leaf blower ban applies to your landscape contractor as much as to owners. Building and Safety is at (310) 318-0636.