Wormser v. Santa Monica Rent Control Bd. CA2/7
Ronald Wormser, as trustee of the Wormser Revocable Trust, filed a petition for writ of mandate and inverse condemnation against the Santa Monica Rent Control Board, seeking reversal of the Board’s decision to deny Wormser’s application in 2014 for an exemption from the rent control law for owner-occupied properties that contained three or fewer units on April 10, 1979, the determinative date. Wormser argued the Board’s denial was an abuse of discretion, and factually and legally unsupported, because the Board had granted Wormser’s property the exemption in August 1979 and October 1985. Wormser contended the Board was bound by, and precluded from contradicting, its previous decisions that there were only three residential units on the property as of April 10, 1979.
The trial court sustained the Board’s demurrer to the petition without leave to amend, and Wormser appeals from the ensuing judgment of dismissal.
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