Dogs need physical and mental stimulation and enjoy canine interaction. Sun City Shadow Hills provides dog parks for its residents that are double-gated with long, grassy areas and chairs for residents to sit as your dog burns off excess energy. Separate areas are provided for small dogs versus large dogs so your dog can dart about, frolic, and meet new four-legged friends in a safe environment.

Phase 1

To get to the park, start at the Montecito Clubhouse:

• Cross Sun City Blvd at Camino Santa Juliana.
• Take Camino Santa Juliana to Camino Santa Elise. Turn right onto Camino Santa Elise.
• Continue on Camino Santa Elise around the curve to .
• The Dog Park is at the end of .

There are two areas in the dog park. One is for small dogs (25 pounds or less) and the other is for large dogs (over 25 pounds).

Chairs are available for residents to sit. Dog poop bags are provided

The park is open from 7 AM to Sunset.

Phase 3

To get to the park, start at the Santa Rosa Clubhouse:

• Turn right onto Sun City Blvd.
• Continue on Sun City Blvd. to Camino Aguacero.
• Turn right onto Camino Aguacero
• The Dog Park is at the end of Camino Aquacero.

There are two areas in the dog park. One is for small dogs (25 pounds or less) and the other is for large dogs (over 25 pounds).
Chairs are available for residents to sit. Dog poop bags are provided.

The park is open from 7 AM to Sunset.

When outside the dog park enclosure, all animals are required to be restrained on leash at all times, including when arriving and departing the dog park.

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, (“Davis-Stirling”) originally enacted on September 17, 1985, was amended in 2013, and again in 2017. The Act provides the procedural and substantive laws that govern all common interest developments, include retirement communities, co-ops, community apartments, condominiums, and planned developments.

Because common interest developments are private enterprises the right to assemble(which is a constitutional right) was not in included in the act.Instead, SB407 was enacted to give this right to residents of common interest developments.

Accordingly, California Civil Code Section 4515 (CCS 4515), which became effective on January 1, 2018, gives members/residents of any property covered by the Davis-Stirling Act the right to assemble in “common areas” owned by the development. In order for a group to use any common area, building, or other gathering place in the development for anything except a social event, the member/resident must fill out a request form. The identified purposes for a “lawful assembly” at Sun City Shadow Hills include anything related to common interest development living; association elections; legislation; and elections related to a public office, initiatives, referendums, or recall actions. The group making the request to use a common area at Sun City Shadow Hills must fill out an “Application for Use of Common Area Facility for SB407/CCS ” and submit this to the HOA Office.

Social gatherings are differentiated from assembling for political purposes. For any social gathering, the HOA will add fees for the use of the property plus require damage deposits and proof of insurance coverage. Assuming that you are not a Chartered Club.

Sun City Shadow Hills has been in compliance with these new provisions since our original by-laws were instituted.Our HOA has created two new forms a Rules form and an Application Form for any group that wishes to assemble for political purposes under new provisions of Davis-Stirling. The request procedure also covers any speaking engagement by a public official; a candidate for public office; or a representative of any homeowner organization that wishes to engage with members, residents, invitees, and guests in a common area. These read-only forms are below. The forms will also be available through the community’s web site via the Room Reservation Request Form.

The new Davis-Stirling provisions give the right of assembly to any owner or renter who is lawfully occupying a property within the community. Remember, this is a new law that covers the right to assemble that is found in the U.S. Constitution. The gathering described herein cannot be to promote any unlawful purpose, to protest, or to disrupt the peace and tranquility of the properties within the development.

CHOSH offers these thoughts so that all residents can be fully informed about new laws enacted and adopted in 2018 that affect your rights.

As most of you know, CHOSH was formed in part, because of the lack of accurate information about our Board, the actions it takes and why, being provided by our HOA Board through the Information Advisory Committee over the past 2 years. We believe that misinformation divides our community. We believe the better informed our homeowners are, the stronger and more united our community becomes.

For the past two years we have provided factual information to homeowners, on a timely basis. And many of you came to rely upon us for that information. But CHOSH should not really be the source of accurate information about what the HOA Board is doing, or even a place to ask questions – according to California law providing information to all homeowners is to be the function of the Board.

We just learned yesterday that a new Information Advisory Committee has been formed by the Board. We are hoping that this committee will return to functioning as it was originally intended – to provide homeowners with factual information on a timely basis about what our HOA Board is doing, how it does it, what actions it has taken and why through social media outlets.

The difference between the IAC and the CAC, is that the IAC provides news/factual information.  The community website was built for the purpose of delivering substantive, factual news to our community. It is a newspaper blog; letting you know if a tree is down, or there is a fire somewhere in the community, or a missing homeowner, explaining to you how contracts negotiations are handled by the Board, simple explanations about our financial status, new purchases, what vendors we contracted with for what services and why, how we compare with other communities in the Coachella Valley, our safety record, the overseeding schedule, etc. and for answering you questions and ensuring your comments and questions are heard by this Board.

The CAC handles the VIEW, the community magazine.

Knowing the Board has appointed new members to the IAC, we will cease providing substantive factual information on this CHOSH website to homeowners as of today, 5.31.18 while the IAC gets back to work properly performing that function.

We would suggest that you ask your questions/make your comments about what the HOA Board is doing and why to the official SCSH HOA Email Address: [email protected] and once again begin visiting the official Sun City Shadow Hills News Website at www,scshca.com for all the daily news you can’t afford to miss.

Our last auto generated newsletter will cease on June 5, 2018.

Thank you for caring and learning about our community. An informed community makes for a better run Sun City Shadow Hills.

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Breakfast 8-11AM

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