Editor's note: The following is the text of the rent-control
proposal by the Glendale Tenant Assn. and local rent-control
advocates. It will appear in the News-Press in two parts, today and
Thursday, as it is too lengthy to be published on this page all at
once.
Rent Control Charter Amendment
Article XXVII
I. Purpose
The purpose of Rent Control is to stop the unwarranted rent
increases and unjust evictions which adversely affect the residents
and merchants in our community, divert income from local businesses,
significantly worsen inflation, hinder home ownership, impose severe
hardship on seniors and the disabled, and upset the education of our
children. This Article shall apply to all residential and commercial
real property in Glendale, except to the extent of any State or
Federal preemption, as a municipal affair under its land use and
police powers.
II. Rent Stabilization
A. Maximum Annual Increase: The rent for a rental unit in Glendale
shall not be increased more than once per year, nor more than the
last annual published CPI* percentage, but not to exceed 3% per year.
[*Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners in the Los Angeles-Long
Beach-Anaheim Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, as published by
the U.S. Department of Labor.] For purposes of rent calculations, the
"base rent" from which increases must be calculated is: (1) for
tenancies in effect when this Amendment is enacted, the rate charged
on Jan. 31, 2002, (2) if the unit was vacant on Jan. 31, 2002, the
next previous applicable rental rate charged, or (3) for tenancies
beginning after this enactment, the average monthly rental rate
charged for the first year of tenancy. For commercial tenants with a
previously specified calculation of rent increases in the lease,
those lease provisions shall prevail over the maximum rent increase
herein.
B. Vacancy Decontrol: If a tenant voluntarily vacates a unit, the
landlord may increase initial rent for the next tenant in that unit
to an amount equal to the base rent plus all accumulated CPI
adjustments, including increases which had not been given during the
prior tenancy.
C. Rollback: Immediately upon the effective date of this measure,
current rents shall readjusted to the amount charged on Jan. 31,2002,
and increased from that base rent only by the CPI calculation
identified above. Any excess charges collected for the prorated
balance of the enactment month shall be refunded with interest at the
legal rate, within 30 days of this enactment.
D. Notices:
