Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Local businesses warn Manhattan Beach tax changes could hit landlords and small tenants
Summary
At a city forum on business‑license reform, several business owners warned that proposed models—especially those eliminating the commercial sales‑tax credit—could raise commercial‑property taxes and be passed to tenants; staff and the HDL consultant acknowledged pass‑through risk and said it arises from private lease terms.
Business owners at a Manhattan Beach forum raised repeated concerns that the consultant’s proposed business-license models could shift significant costs onto landlords and, through leases, onto small tenants.
Several attendees pointed to HDL’s examples showing sizable increases for commercial property under Models 2–4 and warned landlords would likely pass higher landlord costs to tenants. Don Ziss summarized the concern: "the landlord is going to end up paying a BLT, too. And that also gets spread out to those tenants..." The consultant and…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
