Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)

Citation: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Parent Document: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2025-12-18
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10761039/cal-apartment-assn-v-city-of-pasadena/ ↗

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(1) usurping essential legislative and executive functions from
the City Council, Mayor, and City Manager; (2) interfering with
the City Council’s exclusive budget and fiscal planning authority;
(3) authorizing greater compensation for Rental Board members
than other City officials; and (4) altering the essential powers of
recall and removal. 5
             a.     Legislative and executive functions
       The Charter establishes a “council-manager” form of
government in which the City’s legislative powers are vested in
the Mayor and seven City Council members, and the City’s
executive and administrative powers are vested in the Mayor and
City Manager. (§§ 401, 406, 409, 601, 604.) Petitioners contend
that Measure H substantially alters this structure because it
authorizes the Rental Board to operate independently from the
City Council, Mayor, and City Manager, and vests “that
unelected Board with exclusive powers over one of the most
fundamental policy issues in California—housing costs—which
would otherwise be the exclusive purview of the City Council
exercising its legislative powers and the City Manager exercising
the City’s executive function.” In reviewing the Charter,
however, we do not find the dramatic power grabs that
petitioners describe.

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