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Recommendation to Provide Direction to Staff Regarding Various Amendments to the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization, and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance (No. 3148) Which May Include Amending Various Sections of Article XV of Chapter VI Concerning Review of Rent Increases, Limitations on Evictions, Eliminating the Sunset Clause, and Making Clarifying Amendments; and
Public Hearing to Consider an "Ellis Act" Policy and Adoption of Resolution Adopting a Policy Concerning the Requirements, Procedures, Restrictions and Mitigations Concerning the Withdrawal of Residential Rental Units From Rent or Lease (Ellis Act Policy). (Housing 265)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Amy Wooldridge, Interim City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This special meeting is an opportunity for the City Council to provide direction to staff regarding potential amendments to the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization, and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance (Ordinance 3148), adopted on March 1, 2016. Potential amendments include substantive amendments, such as:
* Eliminating terminating tenancies for "no cause;"
* Instituting an annual maximum allowable rent increase; and
* Revising the requirements for payment of relocation benefits.
Potential amendments could also include clean-up or procedural amendments, such as:
* Eliminating the "sunset clause" and other changes that clarify provisions in the ordinance; and
* Remove internal inconsistencies in the ordinance.
The meeting has also been noticed as a public hearing to consider adopting an "Ellis Act" policy. The Ellis Act policy sets forth certain procedures, restrictions, requirements and mitigations that are to be followed when a rental unit is withdrawn permanently from the rental market.
BACKGROUND
On March 1, 2016, the City Council adopted the Rent Review, Rent Stabilization, and Limitations on Evictions Ordinance (Ordinance 3148). In the spring of 2017, Council adopted Ordinance ...
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