Tri County Apartment Ass'n v. City of Mountain View

Opinion

STONE, J. *

—In this case of first impression, we must decide whether a municipal ordinance restricting the effective date of proposed rental increases is a valid rent control measure or a prohibited trespass into landlord-tenant areas preempted by state law. Our task is to affix a label, with appropriate judicial consequences, to a Mountain View enactment formally identified as a “notification process for rental increases.” Should the measure be classified as permissible control of residential rent increases (the position advocated by the city) or as an usurpation of the notification…