Condo conversions in San Jacinto: the local rules

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Limits on conversions	No more than 5% of the city's potentially convertible rental units may be converted per calendar year. Applies: Except as otherwise provided in the chapter. § 16.35.070 · code text The proposed project will not convert, during the current calendar year, more than five percent (5%) of the potentially convertible rental units in San Jacinto for the current calendar year, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
Relocation help	The developer provides suitable alternate housing at no additional cost to the tenant. Applies: Applies to tenant households whose unit is substantially remodeled during conversion and is not habitable. § 16.35.050 · code text The developer shall provide suitable alternate housing to tenant households, at no additional cost to the tenant, whose unit undergoes substantial remodeling or rehabilitation during conversion, if the unit being remodeled or rehabilitated is not habitable.
Notice to tenants	10 days' written notice to each tenant. Applies: Notice that an application for a public report will be or has been submitted to the state. § 16.35.050 · code text each tenant shall receive ten (10) days' written notice that an application for a public report will be or has been submitted to the California Department of Real Estate Within 5 days after the subdivider receives the public report. Applies: Notice that the subdivider received the public report. § 16.35.050 · code text This notice shall be provided within five days after the date that the subdivider receives the public report from the Department of Real Estate. Within 10 days of final map approval. Applies: Written notice to each tenant that the final map was approved. § 16.35.050 · code text each tenant shall receive written notification within ten (10) days of approval of a final map for the proposed conversion. 180 days' written notice of intention to convert. Applies: Required before tenancy ends due to the conversion, and not before a tentative map is approved. § 16.35.050 · code text each tenant shall receive one hundred eighty (180) days' written notice of intention to convert prior to termination of tenancy due to the conversion or proposed conversion, but not before the approval authority has approved a tentative map for the conversion.
Tenants' right to buy	At least 90 days to have the exclusive right to buy their unit. Applies: Starts when the subdivision public report is issued, unless the tenant gives written notice of not using the right. § 16.35.050 · code text The right shall run for a period not less than ninety (90) days from the date of the issuance of the subdivision public report unless the tenant gives prior written notice of his or her intention not to exercise the right.

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San Jacinto's code: No more than 5% of the city's potentially convertible rental units may be converted per calendar year. (Except as otherwise provided in the chapter.) (§ 16.35.070); The developer provides suitable alternate housing at no additional cost to the tenant. (Applies to tenant households whose unit is substantially remodeled during conversion and is not habitable.) (§ 16.35.050).

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