Adam Hardesty fought the HOA and the HOA won.
In a legal decision issued Friday afternoon, a San Diego County judge ruled against the Carlsbad condo owner who tried to convert his garage into a rental unit over the objections of his homeowners association. The ruling brings to an end — at least for now — a year-long legal tussle centered on whether state housing law written to make it harder for locals to reject new developments also applies to all homeowners associations, the quasi-private governments that enforce neighborhood rules for more than one-third of California’s residents.
Throughout much of the fight between Hardesty and the Mystic Point Homeowners Association, Hardesty has sat on the association’s board…