Bayside Manor, Inc. v. City of Santa Monica

Opinion

KINGSLEY, J.

The City of Santa Monica and the city’s rent control board appeal from a judgment granting a peremptory writ of mandate, requiring it to grant to petitioners an exemption from the city’s rent control law. We reverse.

For some time, petitioners operated a group of buildings, licensed under the Community Care Facilities Act (Health & Saf. Code, § 1500 et seq.). The record shows no attempt to apply the Santa Monica Rent Control legislation to that facility until after May of 1980. However, in June of 1979, petitioners filed an application for formal exemption from that…