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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the Rental Board (§ 1811(a)) violates the prohibition against
property qualifications under article I, section 22 of the
California Constitution and the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution. (See Domar
Electric, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1994) 9 Cal.4th 161, 170 [“the
charter represents the supreme law of the City, subject only to
conflicting provisions in the federal and state constitutions and to
preemptive state law”].)
       1.    Rental Board composition
       Measure H provides that the Rental Board shall be
comprised of 11 members appointed by the City Council.
(§ 1811(a).) Seven of the positions must be filled by “Tenants”
with no “Material Interest in Rental Property”; the City Council
must appoint one Tenant member from each of the City’s seven
districts. (§ 1811(a).) A Tenant is a “tenant, subtenant, lessee,
sublessee or any other person entitled under the terms of a
Rental Housing Agreement or this Article to the use or occupancy
of any Rental Unit.” (§ 1803(aa).) Individuals have a Material
Interest in Rental Property if within the last three years “they, or
any member of their Extended Family, [have] own[ed],
manage[d], or [had] a 5 percent or greater ownership stake in
Rental Units in the county of Los Angeles.” (§ 1803(i).) The
other four Rental Board positions are considered “at-large” and
may be filled by any Pasadena resident regardless of which
district he or she lives in, whether he or she is a Tenant, or
whether he or she has a Material Interest in Rental Property.
(§ 1811(a).)
       Actions of the Rental Board require six affirmative votes,
and a quorum to take any action requires six members present,

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