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Recommendation to Review and Comment on the City of Alameda Rent Stabilization Ordinance Review (May 2018) Prepared by Management Partners. (Community Development 265)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Review and Comment on the City of Alameda Rent Stabilization Ordinance Review (May 2018) Prepared by Management Partners
BACKGROUND
On May 16, 2017, as part of the process of considering amendments to the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance (Ordinance 3148), the City Council directed staff to retain a third-party consultant to review and make recommendations on three specific issues:
* Relocation benefits and the formula used to calculate those benefits for permanent and temporary tenancy terminations;
* Provisions regarding government-ordered terminations; and
* The role of the Rent Review Advisory Committee (RRAC) in the rent review hearing process, including possible use of professional mediators and/or hearing officers either with or in lieu of the RRAC.
These issues were considered more substantive than the other items the Council was considering as part of its deliberations and the Council felt it would benefit from an independent review.
At the time the independent review was directed, the Council had adopted Ordinance 3180, which amended Ordinance 3148. Subsequently, the City Council voted to rescind Ordinance 3180 after several landlord organizations secured enough signatures to subject the Ordinance to a referendum vote. The same landlord organizations then gathered enough signatures to put an initiative on the November 2018 ballot that, if approved, would make Ordinance 3148 a part of the City's Charter. If successful, a vote of the people would be required any time the Ordinance is amended.
These two developments have limited the City's ability to modify Ordinance 3148. City Council has been advised t...
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