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File Number: 15-582 <br />recommends adding the annual CPI adjustment, effective July 1, 2017 to provide a <br />built-in cost of living adjustment. <br />As new multi -family rental housing has not been developed in San Leandro for 30 <br />years, this $100 threshold may be low for new projects. The Concord Group, one of <br />the nation's premier providers of real estate advisory services, projects the average <br />rent of San Leandro's new development to increase to $3.04 per square foot, an <br />increase of 49% over the 3rd Quarter 2015 average rent of $2.08 per square foot (see <br />Attachment D). The increase in new market rate units may help relieve the pressure <br />on existing, affordable rental units in the City. <br />The existing thresholds of a rent increase greater than 10% and at least two rent <br />increases in a 12 -month period will remain intact. <br />• Require tenants to submit to the City their rent review hearing request forms <br />within 15 calendar days of receiving their rent increase notice. This provision <br />ensures that the 15 -day requirement is not erroneously interpreted as 15 "working" <br />days. <br />Require landlords to submit their response forms within 10 calendar days from <br />their receipt of their tenants' rent review hearing request forms; otherwise, their <br />rent increase is null and void. The Ordinance currently only encourages landlords to <br />submit their response forms. This change clarifies that landlords must submit their <br />response forms in a timely manner similarly to the tenants in order for the Board to <br />hear the case. <br />Increase the number of days to schedule a Rent Review Board hearing. Currently, <br />a Board hearing must be scheduled within 50 days of an application. However, 60 days <br />is a more feasible timeframe particularly for 60 -day rent increase notices. <br />Formalize that a rent increase must be paid on its effective date. The existing <br />Ordinance is silent on the situation when, for example, the Board votes to continue a <br />case to a second and final meeting that goes beyond the noticed rent increase <br />effective date. Tenants will be required to pay the rent increase on the effective date of <br />the rent increase, but could be given rental credit or other consideration by the landlord <br />should a mutually satisfactory resolution result in a reduced rent increase amount. <br />Incorporate the Retaliatory Eviction provision in its own section. The Retaliatory <br />Eviction provision of the Ordinance should be set apart and emphasized in its own <br />separate section. <br />• Require tenants and landlords to return for a second and final Continuance <br />hearing. The Board must hold a 1st hearing, then, if needed, a 2nd final Continuance <br />hearing prior to referring a rent review case to the City Manager (see below) to provide <br />more time for the tenant and landlord to negotiate a mutually satisfactory resolution to <br />their rent dispute. <br />• Refer unresolved cases to the City Manager instead of the City Council. The <br />City of San Leandro Page 5 Printed on 1211/2015 <br />