SLS Venice Holdings, LLC v. City of L.A. CA2/2
SLS Venice Holdings, LLC (SLS) contests the application of the City of Los Angeles’s (City) Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) (L.A. Mun. Code, § 151.00 et seq.) to a four-unit apartment house in the City. SLS does not dispute that two of the four rental units were subject to the RSO because SLS acknowledges the RSO applies to any rental unit within a residential structure that was built before 1978. Instead, SLS’s challenge turns on whether the RSO applies to the two units that were added to the two undisputed RSO units to create the four-unit apartment house. The agency charged with administering the RSO, the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID), determined the RSO applies to the entire apartment house. SLS filed a traditional and administrative petition for writ of mandate contending the HCID should exempt the two added units as new construction as the agency had in prior years.
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