2.0 Introduction

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

§ 2.0 Introduction

With the rapid population growth in Arizona in the 1970s and 1980s, developers were increasingly faced with a choice of either developing real estate as a condominium, and being bound by the Horizontal Property Regime Act, and in 1986 by the successor Arizona Condominium Act, or avoid the condominium statutes entirely by developing real estate without meeting the definition of a “Condominium” and thereby escape all statutory regulation. In 1994, the Arizona legislature enacted statutes that govern “noncondominiums.” The noncondominium statutes govern “planned communities.” The planned community statutes are found at...