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Webinar offers 2025 compliance rundown for California landlords

01/03/2025 4:58 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

California landlords face a host of new legal requirements in 2025, including changes to security deposit documentation, screening fee policies, and expanded protections for domestic violence survivors.

SM.a.r.t. Column: Adaptive Liveability

01/03/2025 1:48 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Adaptive reuse isn’t just about quirky aesthetics. It’s about making our city more sustainable, more affordable. And, what makes adaptive reuse so sustainable? Well, the greenest building is the one that’s already standing and not demolished. Construction creates a ton of waste. It actually makes up about 40% of all the stuff we send to landfills. By reusing existing structures we reduce waste, and have less negative environmental impact.

New law could help tenants facing eviction stay in their homes

01/02/2025 10:03 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat, the new law also offers something for landlords, who generally like eviction cases to move faster. It limits the amount of time tenant lawyers can take to file certain motions alleging errors in a landlord’s complaint. Landlord representatives said lawyers would use those motions to drag out cases unnecessarily.

New laws amp up protections for renters

12/20/2024 10:54 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

For unlawful detainer eviction actions, Morton stated that AB 2347 (effective on Jan. 1) extends the period tenants can respond to such an action from five to 10 days.

Taking effect this past July, AB 12 prohibits landlords from demanding or receiving a security deposit exceeding the equivalent of one month’s rent, regardless of whether the property is furnished or unfurnished.

Revised Affordable Housing Development Moves Forward

12/20/2024 10:46 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The revised development will include 48 family apartments at 1217 Euclid Street and 82 senior apartments on the sites at 1211-1217 14th Street and 1402 Wilshire Boulevard, which will be combined.

Council Makes it Easier to Build Large Housing Projects

12/19/2024 9:50 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Large housing projects in non-residential neighborhoods that meet zoning standards will be granted a "swift and smooth approval" under a proposal green-lighted by the City Council Tuesday night.

New Council Moves to Streamline Housing Process

12/17/2024 9:17 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The proposed change would lift the site restrictions from projects in Santa Monica's office and industrial zones, mixed-used boulevards and the Downtown, but exempts housing developments under the Bergamot Area Plan.

Beneficial Ownership Information Report

12/16/2024 9:21 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

File by December 31, 2024.

See if you need to file. Check with your tax preparer.

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SM.a.r.t. Column: Preserving Santa Monica

12/16/2024 9:06 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

One major problem we face, for which the City is completely unprepared, are absorbing the negative impacts of the 9000 units the state requires us to build by 2028. These include water shortages, traffic overload (including significant parking problems), and the damage to the City’s historic fabric among other significant problems.

New Council Proposes Rule Changes

12/16/2024 9:04 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The newly seated City Council is proposing rule changes that range from limiting the time Councilmembers can speak to allowing the Council majority to formally censure one of its members.