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Rent Control Board grants three owner-occupancy exemptions, consolidates votes
Summary
The Santa Monica Rent Control Board granted three owner-occupancy exemptions, including a property at 1827 Seventeenth Street, after staff recommended the applicants met ownership and residency requirements and a tenant confirmed shared occupancy.
The Santa Monica Rent Control Board voted to grant three owner-occupancy exemptions for multiunit properties, consolidating the three similar cases into a single vote.
Staff told commissioners that one of the applications concerned a three-unit property at 1827 Seventeenth Street owned by Fernando and Sergio Cornejo, who inherited the property from their parents. Staff said the applicants submitted utility, financial and government records and voter registration showing residency, and that a tenant in one unit confirmed the brothers live on the property. Based on that evidence, staff recommended granting the exemption and adopting proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.
The board took a single consolidated motion on the three items. Vice Chair Ivanoff moved to consolidate and grant all three exemptions; Commissioner Ambreese seconded. In a roll-call vote, Commissioners Ambreese, Duda, Leslie, Vice Chair Ivanoff and Chair Gonska voted yes. The motion carried.
Why it matters: Owner-occupancy exemptions remove units from rent-control coverage when an owner establishes the unit as a primary residence and meets ownership and unit-count criteria. Board staff emphasized that, for these cases, ownership percentages, unit counts and residency evidence were the outstanding items the board needed to confirm.
The board did not receive any public speakers on these three exemption items. Staff and the board noted the exemptions track the board’s established criteria and recommended findings.
