HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/28/2025 Item 5a, Storton
Cheryl Storton <cherylstorton@gmail.com>
Sent:Friday, October
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:October 28 Study Session on Tenant Protections: Agenda Item 5a
Dear Mayor, Council, and Staff:
Thank you for making renter protections a part of our Major City Goals, and for your commitment to
ensuring safe and stable housing for every resident of our City. I sincerely appreciate the time and effort
staff have put into engaging with stakeholders and preparing the comprehensive report accompanying
the agenda for this Tuesday's study session. Unfortunately, I can not attend in person, but please
continue to protect renters and form common sense solutions.
As staff have ably demonstrated, existing law does not effectively protect most renters in our City, and
existing programs do not meet the needs of many residents. The program options they have presented
are common-sense solutions to fill these gaps and ensure all rental units meet basic habitability
standards, tenants aren't evicted without cause or justification, and the City can collect basic
information on our rental housing stock that can be used to formulate effective policy. These programs
have been implemented successfully in many other cities and counties across California and the nation,
and there is no reason they cannot be successfully implemented here if we just have the courage to stay
the course.
Please do not mess this up like you did with the parking in SLO. I still have friends who won't drive to SLO
anymore.
Respectfully,
Cheryl Storton
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