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Committee backs Mandelmann ordinance to protect tenant housing services from ADU conversions
Summary
The committee recommended an ordinance that would bar landlords from removing services such as parking, laundry or storage to build ADUs without just cause; the proposal creates tenant notification, a rent-board petition process (30 days), rent-board determination within 90 days, and potential remedies including triple damages and attorney's fees.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted to recommend an ordinance by Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann that would strengthen tenant protections against the removal or substantial reduction of housing services (parking, laundry, storage, common spaces) when property owners apply to construct accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
Mandelmann said the ordinance is not intended to stop ADUs, which the Board supports, but to stop a pattern where some…
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