Commencing on the date a notice of intention is filed to convert an existing multi-residential building to a condominium project, is served on a tenant occupying a dwelling unit in the building being converted as required by the Subdivision Map Act, and continuing until the termination of such tenant's tenancy or such tenant's purchase of tenant's dwelling unit in the building being converted, or until a tentative map for the conversion, is withdrawn or, following approval of a tentative map for the conversion, the time for filing a final map or parcel map has expired. The amount of rent charged such tenant shall not be increased by an amount greater than 75% of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the period between the date of the last previous rent increase, or if there has been none, the date the tenant rented the tenant's dwelling unit, and the date the proposed rent increase is to be put into effect, as measured by the consumer price indices last published prior to the date the proposed rent increase is put into effect.
(Ord. 2591 (part))