Your unit: the four plans

Which plan is yours

The letter on your door is the letter on the plan. Every building here holds four units, lettered A, B, C and D in that order along its length, and the recorded Condominium Plan draws one “unit type” for each letter. The builder’s sales brochure drew the same four as Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and Plan D, with the rooms in them.

• A is the one-story unit on the ground floor at one end of the building.
• B and C are two-story units side by side in the middle, each over its own footprint.
• D is the upstairs unit at the other end, reached by its own stair from beside its parking space, and the only one with a balcony.

That is 48 buildings and 192 units: seven buildings on Lot 3 (Phase 1), thirteen on Lot 4 (Phase 2), fifteen on Lot 5 (Phase 3), and seven on Lot 1 with six on Lot 6 (Phase 4). 7 + 13 + 15 + 7 + 6 = 48, and four units each is 192.

Sources: Condominium Plan, sheet 2 of each phase (the typical building) and sheet 3 (the building tables, which letter every unit); McKeon sales brochure, p. 2.

Two documents, and what each one knows

The Condominium Plan is the recorded instrument that made each unit a separate piece of real estate. It draws the airspace of every unit type — the box you own — with every dimension in feet and hundredths of a foot, and it draws no rooms at all. It is what a title, a deed and an appraisal refer to, and it is public record.

The brochure is what McKeon Construction handed to buyers in the early seventies. It draws the rooms, the doors, the stairs and the furniture in each plan, and carries not one dimension. It is the builder’s drawing and the builder’s copyright, so this page does not reproduce it. It does the next thing: under each plan’s airspace drawing is a second drawing of ours, with the brochure’s rooms placed inside the Plan’s box.

Read together they are the full picture: the brochure says what was inside, the Plan says how big, and where the line is between what you own and what the Association does. A word on the numbers below: the Plan writes feet as decimals, so 0.34’ is four inches (0.34 × 12 = 4.08), and that is the wall thickness it draws everywhere.

Plan A

One story, on the ground. The brochure draws a living room, a dining area, a kitchen, two bedrooms — a master and a second — one bath, a hall with closets, and a patio off the living room; the garage is drawn as a separate box with a storage space at its end.

Area, our arithmetic: 41.32 × 19.99 = 825.99 square feet, less the recess of 7.34 × 2.50 = 18.35, is 807.6 square feet of airspace.

Plan B

Two stories. The brochure draws, downstairs, a living room, a dining area, a kitchen, a half bath, the stair and a patio; upstairs, a master bedroom, a second bedroom and a bath. The garage is drawn as a separate box with storage.

Area, our arithmetic: 27.32 × 15.14 = 413.62 square feet a floor, and two floors is 827.2 square feet.

Plan C

Two stories, the mirror of B in plan, and the unit whose first floor sits against the parking row at the D end of the building. The brochure draws, downstairs, a living room, a dining area, a kitchen, a bath, the stair, a patio, and a garage adjoining the first floor with storage in it; upstairs, a master bedroom with a walk-in closet, a second bedroom, a hall and a second bath.

Area, our arithmetic: the same as B, 827.2 square feet. For comparison, an appraiser measuring a C unit at 929 Amistad Court from the outside in February 2026 drew 478.5 + 419 = 898 square feet, and the assessor’s record for the same unit says 896. The Plan’s figure is the air inside the walls; the seventy square feet between the two is walls and measuring convention, not a discrepancy.

Plan D

The upstairs unit. On the ground the Plan gives it only a stairwell, 3.07’ × 2.92’, beside parking space D, and the brochure draws the garage with storage and the stair going up from it; everything else is on the second floor — living room, dining area, kitchen with a breakfast bar, master bedroom, second bedroom, bath, hall and storage — and the balcony, off the long wall by the kitchen, which no other plan has.

Area, our arithmetic: 44.32 × 19.99 = 885.96 square feet, plus the stairwell’s 3.07 × 2.92 = 8.96, is 894.9 square feet of airspace, and the balcony is 14.00 × 6.00 = 84.0 square feet more.

Mirrored buildings

Half the buildings are drawn the other way round, and the Plan says so in its own words. Sheet 2, note 6:

“This floor plan occurs when the entrance to units type “B”, “C” & “D” is on the viewer’s left when the viewer faces the front of the building. A “R” floor plan is the reverse of this plan, and occurs when the entrance to units type “B”, “C” & “D” is on the viewer’s right when the viewer faces the front of the building.”

Each phase’s sheet 3 marks its reversed buildings with an ®. Counted from those marks: three of the seven on Lot 3, seven of the thirteen on Lot 4, seven of the fifteen on Lot 5, four of the seven on Lot 1 and two of the six on Lot 6 — 23 of the 48 buildings are the reverse plan. So the drawings above may be the mirror of your unit; the dimensions are the same either way.

Source: Condominium Plan, sheet 2 note 6, and the ® markers on sheet 3 of Phases 1, 2 and 3 and sheets 3 and 4 of Phase 4.

What is yours, and what is not

This is the half of the Plan that matters for a remodel, and it is worth reading in its own words. Sheet 2, note 3:

“Each of the four units in each multifamily structure … shall be a separate freehold estate consisting of the space bounded by and contained within the interior surfaces of the perimeter walls, floors, ceilings, windows and doors of each unit. … The following are not part of the unit: bearing walls, columns, floors, roofs, foundations, reservoirs, tanks, pumps, and other central services, pipes, ducts, flues, chutes, conduits, wires, and other utility installations, wherever located, except the outlets thereof when located within the units.”

So you own the air and the finish surfaces facing it. The perimeter walls, the floor slab, the ceiling above you, the roof, the pipes and wires inside the walls, and every bearing wall are common area, held by every owner together. Note 4 puts the share on it: each owner holds an undivided 1/28 of the common area of their own phase’s lot and 1/192 of Lot 2, the pool and cabana lot. Note 5 then sets aside, for each unit alone, its parking space and its patio — and for D, the balcony and the air-conditioner pad as well.

What that means in practice:

• Inside the box, the interior is yours. The Rules say so too: each owner “has the right to maintain, repair, paint or paper the interior of their unit as they choose.” Moving a non-bearing partition, rotating a bathroom, opening a kitchen — these are the things owners here have done, and the brochure plan is the drawing to compare against.
• A wall you share, a floor you stand on, a window in the perimeter, a pipe in the wall is not yours to alter alone. The Rules require an architectural request for any remodel inside the unit and for new windows, and the CC&Rs require written approval for anything that touches the exterior or the common area. The request builder writes the form.
• The patio and the balcony are yours to use and not yours to build on. They are common area restricted to your unit, which is why the Rules can say what may and may not stand on them.

Sources: Condominium Plan, sheet 2, notes 3, 4 and 5, quoted; Rules and Regulations, revised January 2011, "Unit Use" D, E and G; Restated Declaration of Restrictions, the Definitions section, Declaration A (the common area) and the architectural-control provisions at pp. 10–11 of the recorded instrument, which the Association reproduces in its annual policy statements.

Where the numbers come from

Every dimension on this page was read off the Condominium Plan’s sheet 2 as a page image at five times scale, and the four phases’ sheets carry the same drawing with only the lot number changed. The sheet itself, and the five building maps, are on the archive page, where you can open each at full size and check any figure here against the original. The areas are our multiplication of the Plan’s figures and are labeled as such; the Plan itself states no areas. The room drawings are ours too, and the four are no longer all drawn the same way. In each, the outer box, the patio, the balcony, the parking space and the stairwell are the Plan’s figures. On A and D, every interior wall is then placed by proportion: measured as a fraction of the brochure’s own outline and multiplied by the Plan’s dimension for that side. The brochure is drawn close to scale, its A outline 2.04 to 1 against the Plan’s 2.07, so a wall’s position on those two is good to about half a foot and no better, and their doors are read from the brochure’s own small arcs. Their closets are drawn with no doors at all — the brochure’s arcs do not settle them and nobody has been inside an A or a D to look, so the drawing shows the opening rather than guessing a slider or a swing. If you live in one, that is a thing one photograph would fix. On B and C the interior is a tape measurement. On 18 September 2026 the owner of a C unit walked it with a tape and marked thirty figures onto a printout of the C drawing on this page — every closet, every door, both windows, and the runs along each wall — and those figures, not the brochure, now place the walls. Two things came out of it that no reading of the brochure would have given: the stair is nine and a half feet of run rather than the seven the drawing had, and the doors are not one size. The front doorway is 36 inches, the patio door 32, the bathroom and bedroom doors 28, the master’s and the door from the garage 30, the closet doors 24. Those widths are the one thing carried across to A and D, because they are a fact about what the builder hung rather than about a floor plan.

Where his tape and the recorded Plan disagree, the Plan wins and the drawing says where. Along C’s patio wall the runs add to 172.5 inches against the Plan’s 181.68; measured the other way, across the floors, they overshoot it by about the thickness of one wall. That is the spread a tape gives over fifteen feet taken in two pulls, so the recorded box is kept, each measured run is pinned to the wall it was taken from, and the slack is left in the kitchen counter’s far end, where nothing depends on it. The stair was taped last of all: thirteen risers, the bottom one 47 inches in from the front door, in a stairwell the bath and its closets leave 110.8 inches of. Thirteen risers is twelve treads, so the flight climbs the Plan’s 8 feet 10⅞ inches at 8.2 inches a step over goings of 9.2 — and the drawing shows twelve treads because somebody counted them, not because anything was derived. The stairwell’s wall carries on eight inches past the bottom tread and stops at the step in the ledge, which is deeper inside the stairwell than beside it — the 39 inches is what you can see of it standing in the entry, and it is why the ledge was first measured as a rectangle and is not one.

Every wall on B and C is drawn at the Plan’s four inches, which is what made the measured runs close: a tape reads the clear span between two faces, so a chain across a floor loses four inches at each partition it crosses, and the drawing had been carrying walls as hairlines. Two walls are drawn thicker than the rest: the head of the furnace closet upstairs, which is two walls back to back with bedroom 2’s floor on the other side, and the wall between the downstairs coat closet and the stairwell, which in the C we measured is thick because the air return runs in it. That second one is not in the same place in every unit: some have the return in the wall between the kitchen and the dining area instead, and nothing here says which came first or how many are which. If you know where yours is, tell us. Two of those three figures needed a carpenter’s correction before they closed, which is worth stating because it is the kind of thing that reads as a measuring error and is not. A riser’s exposed face is the rise less the thickness of the tread that laps it, so a true 8.2-inch rise shows 7.5 inches of riser board — the figure taped. A tread measured front to back includes its nosing, which overhangs, so a 9.2-inch going reads 10 inches on a tape. Put both back and the three measurements agree with the walls to within half an inch over thirteen feet.

The floor above runs over the lowest three steps, which is ordinary and costs nothing: the ceiling at the foot of the flight is full height, the structure follows the stair up rather than stopping at a beam, and an owner over six feet climbs it without ducking. That is also what the walk-in’s bench is — the framing over those treads is diagonal, and the bench is what it leaves at the top of it.

The faint squares are one foot. They are there so you can count rather than trust a printed scale, which a photocopier or a phone screen has already changed. Lines fall on whole feet only, so the last strip against a wall is short wherever a room is not a whole number of feet — which is most of them. Measure the room before you buy the couch. The room lists are the brochure’s labels, and the brochure is undated: the Association’s photocopy is marked “4-93” by hand, and the plans it draws are the ones the 1972 instrument records.

If your unit does not match its plan in some way that is not a later remodel — a stair on the other side, a window where the Plan draws wall — tell us. One photograph settles more than a paragraph.