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Committee narrows interim-housing ordinance to specific hotels, authorizes reestablishment for three shelter-in-place sites

5144499 · March 17, 2025
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Summary

The committee approved amendments March 17 to restrict interim-housing authorization to the Civic Center Motor Inn and three former shelter-in-place hotels, set an April 1 eligibility date and sent the ordinance to the full Board as a committee report.

The Land Use and Transportation Committee on March 17 adopted amendments to an ordinance that would allow certain tourist hotels and motels to be used for interim housing without abandoning their hotel classification, narrowing eligibility to a single Civic Center site and three former shelter-in-place hotels and forwarding the measure to the full Board as a committee report.

Emily Cohen of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing told the committee staff and city attorneys had rewritten language to "make it abundantly clear" the ordinance is limited to the Civic Center Motor Inn and to retroactive reestablishment at three…

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