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File Number: 17-535 <br />2)Tenant breach of lease or rental contract <br />3)Tenant illegal activities <br />4)Failure to allow landlord access after legal notice <br />5)Residential property uninhabitable without landlord fault (e.g., tenant’s <br />negligence or willful misconduct, earthquake, fire, flood) <br />6)Lawful termination of employment where such employment by the landlord was a <br />condition of the lease (e.g., apartment property manager) <br />7)Temporary repairs where the landlord provides the tenant with short-term <br />alternative housing during the renovation period <br />8)Prior notice of renovations where the landlord notifies the tenant, before entering <br />into a lease, of his/her intent to remodel the property. To ensure completion of <br />the renovations, the landlord must renovate within one year of tenant occupying <br />the rental unit and must submit plans with the City at the time he/she notifies the <br />tenant of the termination of tenancy. <br />B.All parcels containing rental properties that have two (2) or more tenant-occupied <br />housing units fall under the Ordinance. Per the July 24 City Council Rules Committee <br />recommendation, this changes the “residential property definition” back to the <br />Ordinance’s original definition that was presented to Council at its June 19, 2017 <br />meeting. Therefore, detached single family homes and individual <br />condominium/townhome units would be exempt from the Ordinance, while duplexes <br />(where both units are rented out), tri-plexes and four-plexes would be subject to the <br />Ordinance. <br />C.Tenants with “special-circumstances household” members are entitled to additional <br />tenant relocation assistance (see “Tenant Relocation Assistance” section below). <br />“Special-circumstances household” is defined as “a tenant or anyone else authorized <br />by the landlord” to occupy the rental unit based on the following characteristics: at least <br />one resident is 62 years of age or older, or at least one resident qualifies as a person <br />with disabilities under State law, or at least one or more residents is under 18 years of <br />age. <br />D.Rental housing properties with recorded affordability restrictions are exempt from this <br />Ordinance. Such properties typically have entered into long-term affordability <br />agreements with the City, State and/or the federal government (e.g., City subsidy, <br />State/federal low income housing tax credit program) to serve lower income renters. <br />For clarification purposes only, staff also made minor changes to the definition of <br />affordable rental housing exemption. <br />II.Relocation Assistance Amounts <br />A.Eligible tenants will receive the higher of three times the monthly rent that the tenant is <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/12/2017