What happens when a tenant does not pay rent citing the financial impacts of the COVID pandemic? Can such tenant rely on the force majeure provision in the lease to […]
There are relatively fewer new state laws affecting condominium homeowners associations (“HOAs”) in 2023 than in recent years. However, one particular bill was passed by the California State legislature that […]
Recently, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Joel Engardio introduced an ordinance removing some of the Planning Code’s regulatory barriers to housing. A major implementing measure of San Francisco’s recent Housing […]
Last week, the Ninth Circuit struck down the City of Berkeley’s “Natural Gas Ban” in new construction regulations. The case, California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley, focused on whether […]
Last week, two new ordinances were introduced, both seeking to encourage residential conversion projects downtown, which have been recently touted by the media and policy advocates as one potential solution […]
As reported last week, this legislative session is packed full of pending bills with far reaching changes to land use controls and local control of such. In Part 1, we […]
