§ 7060.7
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It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to supersede any holding or portion of any holding in Nash v. City of Santa Monica, 37 Cal.3d 97 to the extent that the holding, or portion of the holding, conflicts with this chapter, so as to permit landlords to go out of business. However, this act is not otherwise intended to do any of the following:
(a)Interfere with local governmental authority over land use, including regulation of the conversion of existing housing to condominiums or other subdivided interests or to other nonresidential use following its withdrawal from rent or lease under this chapter.
(b)Preempt local or municipal environmental or land use regulations, procedures, or controls that govern the demolition and redevelopment of residential property.
(c)Override procedural protections designed to prevent abuse of the right to evict tenants.
(d)Permit an owner to do any of the following:
(1)Withdraw from rent or lease less than all of the accommodations, as defined by paragraph
(1)or
(2)of subdivision
(b)of Section 7060.
(2)Decline to make a written rerental offer to any tenant or lessee who occupied a unit at the time when the owner gave the public entity notice of its intent to withdraw the accommodations, in the manner and within the timeframe specified in paragraph
(3)of subdivision (b), or in subdivision (c), of Section 7060.2. But the requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to:
(A)A unit that was the principal place of residence of any owner or owner’s family member at the time of withdrawal, provided that it continues to be that person’s or those persons’ principal place of residence when accommodations are returned to the rental market as provided in this section.
(B)A unit that is the principal place of residence of an owner when the accommodations are returned to the rental market, if it is the owners’ principal place of residence, at the time of return to the rental market, as provided in this section. If the owner vacates the unit within 10 years from the date of withdrawal, the owner shall, within 30 days, offer to rerent if required under this paragraph.
(e)Grant to any public entity any power which it does not possess independent of this chapter to control or establish a system of control on the price at which accommodations may be offered for rent or lease, or to diminish any such power which that public entity may possess, except as specifically provided in this chapter.
(f)Alter in any way either Section 65863.7 relating to the withdrawal of accommodations which comprise a mobilehome park from rent or lease or subdivision
(f)of Section 798.56 of the Civil Code relating to a change of use of a mobilehome park.