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Condo conversions in Daly City

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

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

What Daly City's code says

Daly City code What Daly City's code adds
Relocation help
  • Before filing, the subdivider gives all tenants a relocation help report, including help for elderly, handicapped and hard-to-relocate tenants.
    Applies: Applies to tenants as of the notice of intent to convert; the subdivider must also consider letting them stay or move later.
    § 17.37.100 · code text
    The report, to be given to all the tenants, shall specifically state what assistance will be provided to the elderly, handicapped and other tenants who may encounter difficulty finding new quarters. The subdivider shall also consider procedures that would allow hard to relocate tenants to remain as tenants, or that would give such tenants additional time for permanent relocation after termination of tenancy due to the conversion.
Notice to tenants
  • At least 60 days before filing a use permit or tentative map, each tenant gets written notice.
    § 17.37.090 · code text
    At least sixty days prior to filing a use permit or tentative subdivision map for a conversion, the subdivider shall notify all tenants, individually and in writing, of the building to be converted, the notice to contain the following information:
Tenants' right to buy
  • 90 days after the final map is recorded or the state approves the sale, whichever is later.
    Applies: Applies to tenants as of the date the application is filed.
    § 17.37.090 · code text
    That the tenants, as of the date of the application filing, have an exclusive preemptive right to purchase a unit upon the same or more favorable terms and conditions than initially offered to the public, with such right being irrevocable for ninety days after recordation of final map or approval for sale by the State Commissioner of Real Estate, whichever comes later;
Vacancy-rate test
  • The vacancy rate must be 5% or more.
    Applies: Daly City's rate, as reported by the California Department of Finance, for the reporting year before the conversion application.
    § 17.37.060 · code text
    That a vacancy rate of five percent or more, as reported by the California Department of Finance (DOF), has occurred in Daly City during the DOF reporting year preceding any condominium conversion application.

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Frequently asked questions

What happens to tenants when a Daly City building converts to condos?

Daly City's code: Before filing, the subdivider gives all tenants a relocation help report, including help for elderly, handicapped and hard-to-relocate tenants. (Applies to tenants as of the notice of intent to convert; the subdivider must also consider letting them stay or move later.) (§ 17.37.100); At least 60 days before filing a use permit or tentative map, each tenant gets written notice. (§ 17.37.090).

General information, not legal advice.

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