Don Woods wins

Rent Control officials have lost an initial battle over the fate of a former rent control property that has been brewing for more than 15 years. A judge ruled against the Rent Control Board’s efforts to bring a Mid-City apartment building in Santa Monica under rent control

after allowing the owner to rent the 13 apartments at market rates since 1993. Judge Lawrence H. Cho issued a ruling Jan. 15 that called the board’s decision to revoke the removal permit that exempted the building at 1040 20th Street from Santa Monica’s rent control law “capricious.”

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