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VI. WORK SESSION: PROPOSED REVISIONS TO CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION ORDINANCE (CA 85-4) e Ms. Brody said the council held a public hearing on February 9, 1987, on the changes to the Condominium Conversion Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission. She said the changes were initiated to streamline the ordinance, to make it conform to State laws, and to remedy administrative problems. She said the proposed changes to the purchaser protections and the housekeeping changes are not controvers i a 1 but the recommended changes to the tenant protections in the ordinance are controversial. Using charts on the wall, Robin Johnson, a consultant with the Planning Department, reviewed the following options to the Planning Commission recommendations concerning the tenant protections: 1. Tenants living in the building when the revisions to the ordinance are adopted would be eligible to qualify as special category tenants using the standards in the existing ordinance and would receive the tenant benefits in the existing ordinance. Tenants who move into the building after the revisions to the ordinance are adopted would be eligible to qualify as special category tenants using the standards recommended by the Planning Commission and would receive the tenant benefits recommended by the commission. e 2. The comparable housing and life lease benefits would be added to the tenant protections recommended by the Planning Commission for people who are 70 years of age or older, or who are disabled and who have incomes of 80 percent or less of the median income. Other people would receive the benefits recommended by the Planning commission. 3. Extend the Notice to Vacate period from 180 days to one year for tenants who have incomes of 50 percent or less of the median income and to two years for tenants who have incomes of 80 percent or less of the median income and who are 70 years of age or older and for disabled tenants regardless of their income. 4. Retain the tenant protections in the existing ordinance except for the rent control provisions. Ms. Johnson said the staff recommends approval of either Option #2 or #4. She said the definition of "disabled" recommended by the Planning Commission clarifies the "handicappedll category in the existing ordinance and she suggested the Planning Commission recommendation be retained. Ms. Johnson said the City's ability to impose rent control is preempted by State law. Therefore, she recommended that the Condominium Conversion Ordinance indicate that the rents of special category tenants should not be different from the rents of other tenants in the building. City Attorney Tim Sercombe explained the protection. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 18, 1987 Page 7