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San Luis Obispo council directs staff to develop rental-registry work plan after study session
Summary
After a lengthy study session and nearly two hours of public comment, the City Council asked staff to craft a detailed work plan to include a rental housing registry in the next financial plan, while staff will continue targeted research, outreach and cost analysis.
San Luis Obispo Mayor Erica A. Stewart convened a special study session where City staff presented options for a rental housing registry and councilmembers questioned costs, data quality, legal limits and enforcement before directing staff to prepare a work plan for the next financial plan.
The Community Development director, Timmy Tway, and senior planner David Amini framed the session as informational and said the registry discussion is part of the city’s housing and neighborhood-livability work plan. Amini summarized outreach findings and baseline statistics: "59% of households in the city are renters," he told the council, and staff estimates between "12,000 to 14,000 estimated rental units in the city." Staff presented three implementation options: expand the city’s business-license records; a voluntary vendor-run registry; or a mandatory, software-based registry implemented by ordinance with a phased rollout and enforcement period.
Why it matters: Councilmembers and public speakers said better unit-level data matters for multiple city responsibilities —…
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