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  • 01/15/2018 8:13 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)


    WHAT IS COSTA HAWKINS?

    Costa Hawkins is a state law that sets some requirements for the 15 cities in California with rent control—Los Angeles included.

    There are two main provisions:

    • It protects a landlord’s right to raise the rent to market rate on a unit once a tenant moves out.
    • It prevents cities from establishing rent control—or capping rent—on units constructed after February 1995.

    Read More: https://la.curbed.com/2018/1/12/16883276/rent-control-california-costa-hawkins-explained

  • 01/12/2018 8:53 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    State legislation that would have expanded rent control in California failed Thursday after a lengthy and heated debate that brought landlord and tenant groups from across the state to the Capitol.

    At issue was a bill that would have repealed a nearly quarter-century-old law that prohibits cities and counties from implementing most new rent control policies. The measure died after four members of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, including Democrats Ed Chau of Arcadia and Jim Wood of Healdsburg, declined to support it.

    Read More: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-rent-control-expansion-bill-dies-20180111-story.html

    AND

    https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/11_12_2018_Santa_Monica_Lawmakers_Rental_Bill_Fails_to_Pass_Committee.html

  • 01/12/2018 8:30 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    January 11, 2018 -- The head of Santa Monica's environmental task force on Tuesday strongly criticized the City Council for allowing $56.4 million to be drained from the City’s water fund to help finance mega-projects not related to water use.

    “I was mortified,” Mark Gold, the head of the Santa Monica Task Force on the Environment, said of learning water money would be diverted.

    Gold appeared before the council as it was considering -- and then approved -- a five-percent hike in the rate for using the municipal water system ("Santa Monica Prepares Five Percent Hike in Water Rate," January 8, 2018).

    “To ask for ratepayers to cover any of the costs of groundwater remediation or additional water treatment is unethical given that a large pot of money exists to do exactly this,” the letter said.

    Read More:   https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/01_12_2018_Environmental_Leader_Blasts_Santa_Monica_Council_for_Use_of_Water_Funds.html

  • 01/11/2018 4:09 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    A state assembly committee voted Thursday to reject a bill with broad implications for the ability of California cities to impose rent control restrictions on local landlords.

    The bill would have repealed the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which exempts newly constructed housing from rent control laws and prevents cities from limiting a landlord’s ability to raise rents on a unit after a tenant moves out.

    Hundreds of residents from across California packed the Capitol building to speak for and against the measure—so many that the committee had to restrict public comment to a simple yes or no statement.

    Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica, who authored the bill, told the committee that a repeal would not create “statewide rent control,” but would simply provide local governments with the power to make their own rules.

    But opponents of the bill argued that cities would use this freedom to impose legislation that would hurt landlords and steer developers away from markets like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where the housing supply is slim.

    Read More:   https://la.curbed.com/2018/1/11/16879264/rent-control-california-costa-hawkins


  • 01/11/2018 3:01 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    Committee kills proposal to lift rent control restrictions in California

    SACRAMENTO — A closely watched legislative attempt to repeal a 1995 California law known as Costa Hawkins — which bars cities from enacting rent control rules on single-family rental homes, condominiums or apartments built after certain years — died in committee on Thursday, but proponents vow to keep their fight for expanded rent control alive.

    “Regardless of the outcome today I think there is no choice but for the conversation to continue and for us to try to find common ground,” said Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, the main author of Assembly Bill 1506, when it became clear it didn’t have the votes.

    Read More: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/11/california-considers-repealing-rent-control-restrictions/


  • 01/11/2018 12:18 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    January 11, 2018 -- With its 22 stories loped nearly in half, Frank Gehry’s newest version for a mixed-used tower on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica goes to the public for an official unveiling today -- the first of a trio of large and tall projects the City says must be cut down from their original size.

    Located at 101 Santa Monica Boulevard, the project is no longer the 22-story, plume-like structure that triggered both high praise and dismay when first proposed five years ago ("Santa Monica Residents Respond to Proposed Gehry Building," March 22, 2013).

    It now has 115 rooms (fewer than its original) and 79 residential apartments that include 19 replacement rent-controlled units, 18 affordable units and 42 market-rate units, according to City staff.

    Read More:   https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/01_11_2018_New_Frank_Gehry_Design_for_Santa_Monica_Makes_Public_Debut.html


  • 01/11/2018 8:04 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    Any time traveler revisiting the California of 1978 would have an easy time understanding why Proposition 13 passed so handily that year, lowering property taxes throughout the state to 1 percent of the latest sale price or 1 percent of the 1975 assessed value.

    But some change nevertheless may come to the sacred-cow law later this year.

    That would be in the form of a “split roll,” where commercial and residential properties are taxed at different rates.

    Read More: https://smmirror.com/2018/01/may-year-prop-13-intent-restored/


  • 01/11/2018 7:40 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)
    Start Time: 1:30 PM
    End Time: 4:30 PM

    Description:

     The Consumer Protection Division of the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office will present an event celebrating the past, present and future of fair housing that will feature a blockbuster panel of three speakers: U.S. Senator (ret.) Fred Harris, the last living member of the 1967-68 Kerner Commission who voted for the Fair Housing Act of 1968; Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center; and Director Kevin Kish, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH). This program is scheduled for Thursday, January 18, 2017 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the Martin Luther King Auditorium of the Santa Monica Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard. Check-in begins at 1 pm, and pre-registration is required. Please register early as spots are limited. 

    Register at: http://calendar.smgov.net/other/eventsignup.asp?ID=883&ret=http%3A%2F%2Fcalendar.smgov.net%2Fcity%2Feventcalendar.asp%3Flib%3DALL%26et%3D%26ag%3D%26dt%3Dmo%26mo%3D1%2F1%2F2018%26df%3Dcalendar

    Read More: https://smmirror.com/2018/01/santa-monica-host-fair-housing-symposium-january-18/

    AND

    https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/01_11_2018_Santa_Monica_to_Hold_Housing_Symposium_Next_Week.html

  • 01/10/2018 1:39 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    January 10, 2018 -- Shuddering under a frenzy of “monster” mansions replacing the tiny homes of earlier eras, the Santa Monica City Council Tuesday ordered preparation of a temporary ban on such construction in single-family neighborhoods.

    Voting unanimously, the council asked staff to return in two weeks -- its next meeting -- with an interim zoning ordinance (IZO), “emergency in nature,” that would impose a height limit of less than the current 28 feet for and cut the footprint allowed by 20 percent in new homes in such neighborhoods as Sunset Park and Ocean Park.

    It would remain in effect for 45 days.

    Read More:   https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/01_10_2018_Santa_Monica_Council_to_Impose_Emergency_Ban_on_Monster_Mansions.html


  • 01/10/2018 1:36 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

    Remaining as a top priority for the Department of Planning and Community Development is the Pico Neighborhood Plan.

    The neighborhood -- the city’s least affluent and home to its largest Hispanic population -- has been a “dumping ground” for projects unwanted elsewhere in well-heeled Santa Monica, neighborhood activists say.

    Read More:   https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/January-2018/01_10_2018_Pico_Neighborhood_Plan_a_Priority_for_Santa_Monica_Council%20.html


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