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Final Passage of Ordinance Introduction of Uncodified Ordinance Concerning Rent Control and Limitations on Evictions Applicable to Maritime Residential Tenancies including Floating Homes. (City Attorney 10023040)
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The staff report for this ordinance was included when the ordinance was introduced and is available at the following link:
https://alameda.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5557311&GUID=FC27576C-E826-4C50-A054-60B683856308&Options=&Search=&FullText=1
CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. _________
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AN UNCODIFIED ORDINANCE CONCERNING RENT CONTROL AND LIMITATIONS ON EVICTIONS APPLICABLE TO MARITIME RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES INCLUDING FLOATING HOMES
WHEREAS, the City has adopted an Ordinance entitled the City of Alameda Rent Control, Limitations on Evictions, and Relocation Payments to Certain Displaced Tenants Ordinance ("the Rent Control Ordinance"); and
WHEREAS, the Rent Control Ordinance is applicable to Rental Units as that term is defined in the Rent Control Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, currently "houseboats"-which are not defined in the Rent Control Ordinance-are excluded from Rent Control Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, within the City are a number of private marinas and some of those marinas rent space to "floating homes" that, under the State's Floating Home Residency Law, means a floating structure that (a) is designed and built to be used, or is modified to be used, as a stationary waterbourne residential dwelling, (b) has no mode of power on its own, (c) is dependent for utilities upon a continuous utility linkage to a source originating on shore, and (d) has a permanent continuous hookup to a shoreside sewage system; and
WHEREAS, most floating home owners are older residents and many are on fixed income and there are few slips for floating homes in the Bay Area other than the ones in the Alameda marinas, rendering floating home owners an extremely vulnerable population, ...
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