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Committee advances ordinance to strengthen verification of unauthorized dwelling units
Summary
The committee voted 3-0 to adopt amendments and recommend as amended an ordinance that would require applicants to disclose unauthorized dwelling units, direct planning and building staff to investigate misrepresentations, and expand DBI enforcement tools; committee duplicated the file and continued an alternate version to the call of the chair.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on July 28 recommended, 3–0, an ordinance to strengthen verification and enforcement related to unauthorized dwelling units (UDUs) and to protect tenants in rent-controlled units during redevelopment reviews.
Sponsor Supervisor Mirna Melgar told the committee she has worked with tenant-rights advocates and city staff for about 18 months on the proposal after seeing cases in which property owners omitted information about tenants or UDUs from permit applications to avoid displacement protections. The ordinance would require applicants to disclose unauthorized dwelling units and require the Planning Department to investigate UDUs reported…
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