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Short-Term Rentals / Unpermitted / Non-Compliant Properties / Enforcement

CF 14-1635-S10      AT PLUM 02/01/2022

Motion (Raman – Blumenfield – Bonin – Koretz – de León) relative to instructing the Department of City Planning (DCP), with the assistance of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS), Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles Police Department, City Attorney’s Office, Office of Finance, and any other City departments, as needed, to report to the Council within 90 days with an analysis that considers the recommendations for how the City can address, among other issues that may emerge in the report-back process, non-compliant hosts renting out properties listed as a primary residence in which they do not live, the conversion of critical affordable housing stock such as rent-stabilized units and covenanted affordable housing units into short-term rentals, the conversion of multifamily residential structures to short-term rentals, short-term rentals engaging in a commercial uses/activities, and properties being rented for longer periods of time than is permitted; enforcement mechanisms that could be implemented in the City of Los Angeles, such as escalating citations and fines, license revocations, and criminal penalties; the home sharing regulatory and enforcement models of other cities, including but not limited to, Austin, New Orleans, and San Francisco, nationally, and Lisbon, Portugal, Toronto, Canada, and Berlin, Germany, internationally; strategies for ensuring that all home-sharing platforms operating within the City of Los Angeles enter into platform agreements requiring the sharing of data with the City; strategies for implementing and/or improving real-time data collection, trend monitoring, address identification, compliance monitoring, monthly status reports, and the processing of violations by City departments and complaints by residents; and the hiring of additional staff or the creation of a dedicated unit, office, or department that would consolidate the various aspects of home sharing compliance and enforcement in one multidisciplinary team; and, instructing the DCP, working with the LADBS, Information Technology Agency, and any other relevant City departments, to report to the Council within 90 days with a plan for the creation of a centralized, digital database or platform that is updated on a continual basis to better coordinate data tracking of non-compliant properties for monitoring and enforcement purposes; and, to ensure, within 90 days, that the public would be able to view on an existing or new publicly accessible online database or platform, whether any property in the City has a Home-Sharing License, a Home-Sharing License Renewal, or an Extended Home-Sharing License. (Also referred to Housing Committee)

Community Impact Statement: Yes

For:
Westside Neighborhood Council
Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council
Los Feliz Neighborhood Council
Mar Vista Community Council
East Hollywood Neighborhood Council
Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council
Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Atwater Village Neighborhood Council
Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council
Hermon Neighborhood Council
Echo Park Neighborhood Council
Studio City Neighborhood Council

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  • 01/28/2022 Planning and Land Use Management Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on February 1, 2022.   Motion 08/25/2022
  • 12/03/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Studio City Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/28/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Echo Park Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/23/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Hermon.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/16/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Wilshire Center Koreatown NC.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/15/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Atwater Village Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/13/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 11/04/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 10/27/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by East Hollywood Neighborhood Council (EHNC).  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 10/24/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Mar Vista Community Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 10/22/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Los Feliz Neighborhood Council, Los Feliz  Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 10/07/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council.  Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 09/09/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Westside Neighborhood Council.   Refer to CF 14-1635-S10
  • 08/25/2021 Motion referred to Housing Committee; Planning and Land Use Management    Motion 08/25/2022

 

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