Santa Monica Properties v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board

*743Opinion

BIGELOW, P. J.

After taking more than a year to issue a final decision, the Santa Monica Rent Control Board (RCB) decreased two tenants’ rents because their landlord, Santa Monica Properties (SMP), lowered the temperature on a hot tub during workday hours, heating it only during evening hours, and altered a sauna’s timer knob so that the sauna heated for one-half hour at a turn instead of the previous one hour. SMP filed a petition for writ of administrative mandate challenging the rent decrease decision. In the same pleading, SMP sought a petition for writ of traditional mandate to…