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Renters Commission hears council updates: tenant handbook, vacancy on commission, pre-tenancy fee feedback and Courthouse Square complaints
Summary
Council liaisons and commissioners updated the Renters Commission on administrative and enforcement matters including potential charter changes to the tenants’ handbook, challenges filling an attorney-designated seat, feedback on pre-tenancy fees and an active complaint about Courthouse Square Apartments.
Council members and commissioners used the Feb. 20 meeting to provide administrative updates and to flag enforcement and outreach items affecting renters in Ann Arbor.
Council member Regina (City Council member and commission liaison) said the city clerk’s office has identified a structural issue with the tenants’ Rights and Responsibilities handbook: the book’s details are currently embedded in the city charter, which limits the city’s ability to revise the handbook quickly as laws change. Regina said city staff are considering whether to update the handbook and move its procedural details into ordinance language that the council can amend more easily;…
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