"Central city" means that area of the City of Sacramento lying between the American River on the north, Broadway on the south, the Sacramento River on the west, and Alhambra Boulevard on the east. The properties fronting upon the eastern side of Alhambra and the southern side of Broadway are within the central city.
"Comparable unit" means a residential hotel unit, an efficiency unit, or a one-bedroom apartment that is decent, safe and sanitary, that is similar in amount of habitable living space, and that has a listed rent that is similar to the unit being withdrawn. The comparable unit should also be accessible to public transit.
"Director" means executive director of the Sacramento housing and redevelopment agency, or the executive director's designee.
"Efficiency unit" means efficiency unit as defined in Section 17.16.010.
"Just cause" means failure to pay rent after service of a three-day notice; failure to comply with reasonable terms of a lease or rental agreement; committing waste or creating a nuisance; using the premises for an illegal purpose.
Posting. Where posting of a notice is required by this chapter, the notice shall be posted in a conspicuous location at the front desk in the lobby of the hotel, or if there is no lobby, in the primary public entrance way.
"Relocation assistance plan" means a written document that sets forth the owner's plan to accomplish the following:
1. To inform eligible tenants of the program's benefits, as provided in this chapter;
2. To meet with eligible tenants to determine any specific needs;
3. To locate comparable units that are available for lease;
4. To offer rental leases for up to two comparable units to each eligible tenant, the second unit being offered if the first is rejected;
5. To allocate relocation assistance to the owner(s) of the comparable units and eligible tenants, and make relocation payments, as appropriate; and
6. To provide a schedule for implementation of the plan, including the proposed date of withdrawal of the residential hotel unit.
"Residential hotel" means any building containing six or more rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out, to be occupied, or which are occupied, for sleeping purposes by tenants, which is or may be the primary residence of such tenants, provided that a majority of these rooms are residential hotel units. Residential hotels are not buildings containing six or more guestrooms which are primarily used by transient guests who do not occupy the hotel as their primary residence. Residential hotels are also known as single room occupancy (SRO) hotels.
"Residential hotel unit" means a room in a residential hotel intended or designed to be used, or which is used, rented, or hired out, to be occupied, or which is occupied for sleeping purposes by a tenant, and which lacks either or both a self-contained kitchen or bathroom. (As of 1998, residential hotels may contain efficiency units.) (Section 17.16.010.)
"Withdrawal of residential hotel unit from rent or lease" means changing the use of any residential hotel unit, whether occupied or vacant, to a use which is not a residential hotel unit; the demolition or destruction of any residential hotel unit, whether occupied or vacant; or the failure to offer publicly and in good faith a residential hotel unit for rent or lease to persons desiring to occupy the unit as a permanent residence; provided, however, that the temporary failure to offer a unit for rent or lease in order to accomplish needed maintenance or repairs shall not be considered a withdrawal. (Ord. 2016-0043 § 3; Ord. 2006-056 § 1)