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Condo conversions in Chico

Chico's own rules on condo conversions, with the code text for every value.

Each rule below links to the section of the Chico Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (extracted October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Chico's code says

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Relocation help
  • Current, ongoing information on the location and rent of comparable rental housing in the Chico urban area.
    Applies: Each tenant who chooses not to buy their unit.
    § 18.13.030 · code text
    Current and continuing information on the location and rent of other rental housing within the Chico urban area comparable to the dwelling unit occupied by the tenant in the multi-residential building being converted to a condominium project;
  • Transportation, or its reasonable cost up to 25% of the monthly rent.
    Applies: Tenants 62 or older, disabled or lower income; to find comparable replacement housing in the Chico urban area.
    § 18.13.030 · code text
    If the tenant is 62 years of age or older, a disabled tenant, or a lower income tenant, transportation, or the reasonable cost of transportation not to exceed 25% of the monthly rent being charged the tenant on the date the notice of intention to convert required by the Subdivision Map Act is served on such tenant, which is necessary to locate comparable replacement housing within the Chico urban area;
  • A payment equal to 100% of the monthly rent for moving costs, paid when the tenant moves out.
    Applies: Each tenant who does not buy a unit.
    § 18.13.030 · code text
    A sum equal to 100% of the monthly rent being charged the tenant on the date the notice of intention to convert required by the Subdivision Map Act was served on the tenant, payable at the time the tenant vacates tenant's dwelling unit in the multi- residential building being converted to a condominium project, for the cost of transporting such tenant's personal property to replacement housing;
  • 100% of reasonable moving costs, including packing, crating and unpacking, based on the lowest of 3 bids the owner gets.
    Applies: Tenants 62 or older or lower income, when the cost exceeds 100% of monthly rent; replacement housing in the Chico urban area.
    § 18.13.030 · code text
    or, if the tenant is 62 years of age or older, a, or a lower income tenant, 100% of the reasonable expense, including packing, crating, and unpacking expenses, which will be incurred in transporting such tenant's personal property to replacement housing rented or purchased within the Chico urban area, based on the lowest of three bids obtained by the owner of the building being converted, if such expense is greater than 100% of the monthly rent being charged such tenant.
Notice to tenants
  • Written notice of intent to convert, at least 60 days before the tentative map is filed.
    Applies: Served on each tenant or prospective tenant.
    § 18.13.010 · code text
    A certificate, signed by the subdivider under penalty of perjury, declaring that at least sixty days prior to the filing of a tentative map, each tenant or prospective tenant was served with a written notice of intention to convert as required by the Subdivision Map Act;
  • Written notice within 10 days after the public report application is filed.
    Applies: Notice to each tenant that an application for a public report was or would be filed.
    § 18.13.010 · code text
    Within 10 days of the date an application for a public report was filed with the department of real estate per Business and Professions Code 11010 and 11018 each tenant occupying a dwelling unit in the multi-residential building being converted to a condominium project was served with a written notice that such application was or would be filed and that such report would be available from the subdivider on request as required by the Subdivision Map Act;
Tenants' right to buy
  • 90 days.
    Applies: Right to buy on the same or better terms than the public, starting when the subdivision public report is issued.
    § 18.13.010 · code text
    The right of such tenant to purchase tenant's dwelling unit in the building being converted on the same or more favorable terms as those offered to the general public for a period of 90 days from the date of issuance of the subdivision public report as required by the Subdivision Map Act;

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Frequently asked questions

What happens to tenants when a Chico building converts to condos?

Chico's code: Current, ongoing information on the location and rent of comparable rental housing in the Chico urban area. (Each tenant who chooses not to buy their unit.) (§ 18.13.030); Transportation, or its reasonable cost up to 25% of the monthly rent. (Tenants 62 or older, disabled or lower income; to find comparable replacement housing in the Chico urban area.) (§ 18.13.030).

General information, not legal advice.

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