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<br /> (4) Failure to allow landlord access. Tenant failed to allow landlord access to the <br />residential property, after receiving due notice as required by California Civil Code Section <br />1954. <br /> (5) Residential property uninhabitable without landlord fault. The residential property becomes uninhabitable as a result of the tenant’s negligence or willful conduct or as a <br />result of an earthquake, fire, flood or other acts of God. <br /> (6) Termination of employment. The lawful termination of the tenant’s employment <br />by the landlord, where such employment was an express condition of, or consideration for, the <br />tenancy pursuant to the rental agreement. (7) Temporary repairs or renovations. The tenant is temporarily displaced from the <br />residential property due to repairs, remodeling or renovations, where the landlord provides the <br />tenant with alternative housing for the duration of the repairs, remodeling or renovations. <br /> (8) Prior notice of renovations. Landlord notified tenant prior to entering into the <br />rental agreement of the landlord’s intent to renovate the residential property within one (1) year of tenant occupying the residential property and the landlord files plans with the City to renovate <br />the residential property at the time the landlord notifies the tenant of termination of tenancy. <br /> (g) RENT means the amount of compensation paid by a tenant to a landlord, as <br />defined by the rental agreement between the tenant and landlord, for the possession and use of <br />residential property for the month immediately preceding the effective date of an eligible rent increase or serving of a notice to vacate and shall not include ancillary services excluded from <br />base rent, including, but not limited to pet deposits, storage, additional parking or utility pass- <br />throughs. <br /> (h) RENT INCREASE means any upward adjustment of the rent from the base rent <br />amount. (i) RENTAL AGREEMENT means the legal written agreement, including all <br />changes and addenda governing occupancy of the residential property, between landlord and <br />tenant. <br /> (j) RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY means any housing unit offered for rent or lease <br />in the City, provided that such housing unit is in a parcel that contains two (2) or more tenant-occupied housing units, and mobile homes. Mobile homes are subject to this Chapter only if a <br />tenant rents the mobile housing unit itself. Residential property shall exclude any housing unit <br />that is subject to a recorded regulatory agreement that requires that the housing unit be rented to <br />a low-income tenant as defined by the regulatory agreement. <br /> (k) SPECIAL-CIRCUMSTANCES HOUSEHOLD means a tenant or anyone else authorized by the landlord to occupy residential property with any of the following <br />characteristics at the time of notice of a landlord-caused termination: <br /> (1) At least one (1) resident of the residential property is sixty-two (62) years of age <br />or older; <br /> (2) At least one (1) resident of the residential property qualifies as disabled as defined by Title 42, United States Code, No. 423 or handicapped as defined by California Health and <br />Safety Code Section 50072; or <br /> (3) One (1) or more minor children (under eighteen (18) years of age) who are legally <br />dependent (as determined for federal income tax purposes) reside in the residential property. <br /> (l) TENANT means any person having the legal responsibility for the payment of rent for residential property in the City as identified under a valid lease or rental agreement with <br />a landlord. <br />277