[Scpg] Fwd: LA city council to vote Tuesday on a very weird anti-sharing law, please contact your councile members

Mon Mar 19 17:59:49 PDT 2012

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From: Janelle Orsi <janelle.selc at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:35 AM
Subject: LA city council to vote Tuesday on a very weird anti-sharing law
To: Janelle Orsi <janelle.orsi at gmail.com>

Dear LA friends, 
There has been practically no press about this, but there's a very concerning ordinance under consideration in LA. It would make it illegal for people to have more than one renter living in their home, since that would constitute a "boarding house."  I thought surely it was a joke, but no - that's actually what on the table this coming Tuesday.  LA seems to be forgetting about the foreclosure crisis, the sprawl problem, homelessness, low-income people, middle-income people, old people, immigrants, students, single people....

So it would be great if you could call/write your council members and remind them about those people and issues.  In particular, call the three members of the Planning and Land Use Committee (Reyes, Huizar, and Englander) before they vote on it this coming Tuesday (March 20th).  And pass this on please, thank you!

More info:
The ordinance is attached and I've pasted the definition of "boarding house" below.  Here's a blog post about it by Greg Spiegel of the Inner City Law Center, and you can see his email to me below with at with more detail.  They sneakily called it the "Community Care Facilities" ordinance to make sound nice, but it's more accurately a law that prevents people from sharing housing, and that creates a limited exemption for certain licensed care facilities.

BOARDING OR ROOMING HOUSE. A one-family dwelling where lodging is provided to individuals with or without meals, for monetary or non-monetary consideration under two or more separate agreements or leases, either written or oral, or a dwelling with five or fewer guest rooms or suites of rooms, where lodging is provided to individuals with or without meals, for monetary or nonmonetary  consideration under two or more separate agreements or leases, either written or oral. A leased bedroom shall be considered the same as a guest room for density and parking requirements. This definition does not include any state licensed facility serving six or fewer persons which, under state law, is not considered a boarding house.

Thank you everyone!
Janelle
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Janelle Orsi, Director
Sustainable Economies Law Center
www.TheSELC.org
436 14th Street, Suite 1120
Oakland, CA 94612
510-649-9956

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From: Greg Spiegel <GSpiegel at innercitylaw.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Subject: RE: More info about Community Care Facilities Ordinance
To: Janelle Orsi <janelle.selc at gmail.com>

Janelle:

Sorry for my slow response. 

The soonest the ordinance would come before City Council would be at a Planning and Land Use Management committee meeting.  If a majority of the three members of PLUM (Reyes, Huizar and Englander (the author of the ordinance)) approve the ordinance, it would then go before the full City Council.  The soonest it would be heard in PLUM, and the most likely date, is Tuesday, March 20th at 2pm.

The most recent draft of the ordinance is attached to this email.  You can find more information on the ordinance here:  http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=11-0262 

The link you attached is to the same ordinance but is not the most recent version.

Let me know if there is anything else you’d like.

Greg

Greg Spiegel
Director of Public Policy and Communications
Inner City Law Center
1309 East Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA  90021
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From:janelle.orsi at gmail.com [mailto:janelle.orsi at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Janelle Orsi
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:49 PM
To: Greg Spiegel
Subject: More info about Community Care Facilities Ordinance

Hi Greg,
I saw your post about LA's Community Care Facilities Ordinance. Thank you for writing about this!  I'd like to raise awareness of this as well.  I've been looking on the LA City Council website for updated info, but can't seem to find much. Can you tell me where to find an the most recent draft of the ordinance?  And when it may come up on the Council's agenda? 

I found something that appears to have been on the table a couple years ago: http://cityplanning.lacity.org/Code_Studies/Housing/ComCareFacilitySupRpt.pdf

Thank you for any info you can share!
Janelle -- 
Janelle Orsi, Director
Sustainable Economies Law Center
www.TheSELC.org
436 14th Street, Suite 1120
Oakland, CA 94612
510-649-9956

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Janelle Orsi
Law Office of Janelle Orsi
1010 Grayson Street, Suite 2, Berkeley, CA 94710
510-649-9956
Janelle.Orsi at gmail.com
www.JanelleOrsi.com
Book and blog: www.sharingsolution.com
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