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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
2
001104
Name:
Rent Ordinance Capital Improvement and 50%
Bond Cost Passthroughs
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Filed
File created:
In control:
6/12/2000
Clerk of the Board
On agenda:
Final action:
1/3/2001
Enactment date:
Enactment #:
Title:
Ordinance amending Chapter 37 Administrative Code "Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration
Ordinance" regarding landlord capital improvement and Bond cost passthroughs to tenants, by
amending Sections 37.2, 37.3, and 37.7, and by adding new Section 37.8C: by providing for
certification of current code required seismic strengthening work and for certification of other
live/safety capital improvements required by code provisions enacted in the future, to be amortized
and passed through to tenants over a 20-year period (currently a 10-year period) without being added
to base rent; to provide that certain other certified capital improvement cost passthroughs may be
added to tenant base rent (which is not permitted under current provisions), up to a total increase of
10% of base rent over each designated 3 year period in buildings with 1-4 residential units, or a total
increase of 10% of base rent over each designated 5 year period in buildings with 5 or more
residential units (currently amortized over a 7 or 10-year period); by providing that capital
improvement costs for abatement of code violations may not be certified for passthrough to affected
tenants where code violations were unabated for 90 days or more (absent temporary suspension of
the 90 day period due to good faith abatement activity by the landlord), and providing that such
tenants may not also receive a reduction of rent due to reduction of housing services caused by these
code violations (this provision is new); by providing that capital improvement costs for abatement of
code violations may not be certified for passthrough to tenants where the work was necessitated by
deferred maintenance that resulted in those code violations, even where a prior landlord deferred the
maintenance (currently available only as to the current landlord's deferred maintenance); by providing
that tenants may file applications for hardship deferment from capital improvement passthroughs at
any time during their tenancy, pursuant to specified criteria (currently a tenant must appeal within 15
days of the decision granting certification); providing a pilot program for deciding non-complex
landlord capital improvement petitions and tenant hardship applications without a hearing, where the
facts are substantially undisputed (currently all such petitions and applications require hearing); and
by providing that landlords may automatically pass through to tenants 50% of annual costs resulting
from repayment of city general obligation bonds approved by the voters in the November 2000
election or thereafter (currently no automatic passthrough provisions for such bond costs).
Sponsors:
Tom Ammiano
Attachments:
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED
President
6/12/2000
1
SUBSTITUTED
Supervisor(s)
6/19/2000
1
ASSIGNED
President
6/19/2000
2
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 5.39
Clerk of the Board
1/3/2001
2