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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, or which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. No, join. Yeah. Can you call the roll? Oh, we're going to... with liberty and justice for all. No, do you want? Yeah. Can we call the roll? Oh, we're gonna do the land acknowledgement. Oh, I can call the roll. Oh, just kidding. Come on, come on. Councilor Rizwick. It's my turn. I'm here. Here. Councilor Rizwick. Here. Councilor Rizwick. Here. Councilor Rizwick. Here. from the resident's Gaya. Here. We are put into roses. Here. And Mary Nicarite. Here. I'm not going to read the city of Santa Monica's statement of accountability. The city of Santa Monica is located on the land of the tote vanguard with great respect. The city acknowledges the Gabrielle Nio Tongva as the first people of this ancestral and unceded territory as of Kurovanga. respect the city acknowledges the Gabrieleño Tongva as the first people of this ancestral and unceded territory of Kuravanga, a village that we know as Santa Maraca. acknowledge the Gabrieleño Tongva as the first people of this ancestral and unseated territory of Kuravanga, a village that we know as Santa Monica. We honor their elders, past and present, and the Gabrieleño descendants who are part of the Gabrieleño Tongva tribes. We recognize that these peoples are still here, and as settlers and cuyam, guests, we recognize our responsibility and obligation to care for their land in partnership with them. The City of Santa Monica commits to work in partnership with the Gabriele Nioh Tonga people to uplift their voices and visibility on their ancestral land. So there's only public input on the one item today since it is a special meeting and we have it looks like eight speakers. Yes, and City Clerk, before we get started, I just wanted to say a special message on behalf of the entire council. And I know everybody will have some words later on. First of all, I see our first responders in the room here are chief and our police department chief as well. I want to extend to city staff. All those behind the scenes are first responders are deepest gratitude. You are heroes. You are putting yourself and your life on the line. And I know many of you also have been impacted and even lost your homes. But yet you continue to go out in the field to keep us safe. City staff. There are many people behind the scenes that are working in our emergency operations center getting information out and keeping us safe. Thank you so much. We are all in debt to you. We are all in gratitude. I cannot thank you enough. And to all of those who are experiencing loss during this fire after just going and seeing the devastation in person just an hour ago. My heart is with you. My heart is with everybody in every region and every part of the region and every fire as we have multiple, not just policy, it's in Malibu to all our neighbors. We are one voice. We are all working together with all leadership and we will get through this and our hearts are with you. So I just wanted to say that before we begin. We will have public input and bear with me as I am reading handwritten cards. I'm going to call five names and if you will just line up in the order I recall them. Shana Yoshiloa. Margarita Paglia. Scott Marquette. Key Ambres. And Kurt Gonska. Sorry, I know my name is a little weird. Yoshi Kala, but that's OK. I live south of the zone. I got a text message yesterday about evacuating. I don't know how to respond. I had to call out for work for the past week because I'm not sure what to do. And I don't understand what's going on with the curfew. So I'm here for that. My son was calling me incessantly yesterday asking me what to do. How would I go about advising him on that? Because there's so much information, misinformation, I don't know what it will. So if you guys could answer that, that would be great. Can I answer this? Traditionally, we don't have back and forth conversation, but I did in fact just do an update. There are alerts that are coming from the city of Santa Monica. Please heed those. We control those within the city. Yes, it's very frustrating. We share your frustration about the ones that were coming out that were by mistake and they can be confusing. But the one thing that we're coming out of, the city. We're going to be discussing that tonight. We're going to discuss that tonight. We'll go over it. Is there a member of the city's public information team or outreach team who might be able to be here to answer similar questions from people who are looking for clarity? No, I'm there is not but I'm happy to answer. I can speak with you after the answer. Okay. Okay. Great. Yeah. Thanks. Yes. And just be sure to state your name when you come to the mic. Thank you. My name is Margarita Paliai. I'm the founder of Little Doffins by the sea and seven-hour elementary. I want to thank all of you because 17 years ago I was here in an emergency. I don't know if any of you were here and we moved from palasites here and we only had four months to do it and you help us get a conditional use permit at 1812 Stanford. And it has been a blessing in education in early childhood. And you made that happen. And in a way, Santa Monica became a place of understanding how we can connect with more people in the palisades. But you cannot believe it, what you did for us. It was miracle. And the school is thriving and we are there. And I'm very thankful to you. I have loved early childhood education. I'm the founder. I started the garage of my house. We went to the Mescola Canyon. The problem, that's how we came Santa Monica. And it has been incredible. So I have a deep respect. I love children. I love community. Right now, I'm headed with 170 families that more or less 60 or 70 percent of them lost their houses. When COVID happened we were the first school that we opened by again the help of Santa Monica. We had a place in the beach on our infamous call and three and we're able to be very very soon And we're able to be leaders to others because children from a neuroscience point of view must be in school. For me is keeping childhood alive. For me, there are still liars that all these parents who are traumatized get together will come to be leaders for others of putting our kids first and to keep jobs to do. That's how I'm imploring to you for this because a day is essential. While people go, they're moving to San Diego to Florida. I don't want to lose the families just because so many are displaced. So what I'm asking is for you to know how incredible successful we have been in giving normal see to parents because of what you have done to help because you also helped me open after COVID. And so I want to thank you to care of education and children. Thank you, Magarita. Thank you. Thank you so much. Scott? Hi, yeah. My name is Scott Marlett. I'm the chair of the Board of Seven Eras. In the last couple of days since this has happened, as Margaret has said, we've lost half of the families have lost their homes. We know we need a space for the children. We've been looking all day today and yesterday at spaces in the city. We're committed to being here. Everyone that we've interacted with in the city so far has been super helpful. We know you're going to talk about this in a little bit, but the main city issue that we'll run into is use permit in sort of non-residential commercial industrial space. If there is a way to allow that in a blanket way that expedites that, And our view is that days matter. We have parents who are ready to show up tomorrow morning with brooms and get a space ready. And we have identified spaces. We have the ability of many people here that are sporting our community from business perspective. We have the ability to get insurance. We have the ability to mobilize their spaces that don't even require construction that we could show up to on Monday morning. We can't do that without the appropriate licensing that you guys can provide. And that's what we're here asking for. There will be longer term issues, including construction build out that many schools will face. This isn't just going to impact us almost every school in the Palisades will need to relocate here. And anything that you guys can do to allow this. We're invested in the short-term immediate impact because many as Margaret has said many of the families are choosing to leave because they're not in person. Our goal is to be in person on Monday morning. We can do that with your help. We'll also work with you on the sort of intermediate term because it will be years until we'll be able to return. Thank you. Thank you so much, Scott. Okay. Good afternoon, Mayor Nguhe. I'm members of the city council. My name is Cambrice. I'm a member of the city's rent control board. But I'm here today in my individual capacity as a resident. In the previous days and in the days and weeks ahead, many families have had their homes damaged or completely lost. Moving forward, we will see an see an influx of residents who have been displaced by the fire seeking rental units in our city. As such, we must ensure that laws against price-catching are strictly enforced. These laws already exist. Petyl Code Section 396 and Section 4.32.161 of the municipal code prohibit predatory price spikes following the declaration of an emergency. These laws are referenced in the city's emergency order. In order for these laws to be effective, we need city staff to deploy all available resources to track the rents that were advertised or offered before the emergency declaration went into effect so that we can have evidence of potential violations. The rent control board tracks and monitors prices of units that are currently leased, but we do not have a way to track advertised rents in vacant rent control units and we do not track rental rates of non-rent control units. I know that there have been previous discussions about creating a rent registry and I understand that that this process is labor intensive, but now would be the time to expedite the creation of this registry. As a no-perspective potential tenants should be aware of scammers and should report all instances of scams to the Consumer Protection Unit of the City Attorney's Office. And as a reminder, Assembly Bill 12 now prohibits property owners from charging more than one month's rent as a security deposit. Thank you to our city's leadership team during this difficult time. Thank you, Ms. Ambrus. Kurt Gonzaga. And then I'm just going to take a brief moment here to call the next names up. Assembly member Rick Chavez-Zabur, Robert Oliver, Hank Cunning, and Adam Finkel. Thank you. My name is Kurt Gonska. I'm also a member of the Rank and Droll Board, appearing in my personal capacity as a resident of Santa Monica. First, I want to say I want to echo your comments, Mayor, to our first responders here in the cross-city and region who have done a remarkable, remarkable job, sacrificing so much for us. And thank you to all of you because there is a lot of misinformation out there right now. And I think all of you have done a really excellent job of putting out good information that people can rely on. So thank you for doing that. A couple of really quick things I want to hit on here. One, I want to echo the last speaker's comments about the rental registry. It's extremely helpful to have that data to prevent price scouting going forward. The other main thing I want to talk about quickly is in the emergency, the local emergency order, there is a provision to suspend a couple parts of the municipal code relating 6.20 to home sharing invocation rentals, also residential leasing regulations, 6.22. We definitely want to make sure that we're able to help our neighbors. Very quickly, we don't want unnecessary red tape and obstacles to doing that. But I would just encourage you to perhaps be very surgical in what we're suspending and not suspend entire provisions because there are very important things in those provisions around protections for tenants, around safety and other things. Also not only for protecting tenants while they're in the units, but also whenever the local emergency order is lifted, we'll want to make sure that we're in a position where we can track those short-term rentals and people aren't taking advantage of and we're able to put in place and enforce existing rules once we're passed the emergency. So thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Assembly members are are. And Madam Mayor, I just want to note for the record that Assembly members should be here. I'm sorry, severe has turned good at it by Robert Oliver. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Members of the council, thank you very much for allowing me to join you today. I want to start out by basically saying that my heart goes out to the many members of our community who've been displaced by these horrible fires, folks that may not have lost their homes yet, but we all know people who have and really want to thank the first responders, the police and fire, and your operation of emergency management, which is really doing, you know, round the clockwork to protect the community and just want to thank them. I was very grateful to Mayor Negretti, to Mayor Pro Tem, to Rosis, a council member, Hall, who met me on Wednesday evening and gave me a tour of your operation center and it gave me a sense of some of the needs of the community. One of the things that they asked me that night was really to try to have assistance in having a national guard deployment. Something obviously none of us want to see, but obviously it's important that as we ask people to heed the orders of the community in order to evacuate people need the the peace of mind to make sure that they understand that their homes are not at risk from something other than the fire. And so I wanna thank Speaker Reva who jumped into action that evening interfacing with the governor's office. I also wanna thank Sheriff Luna and also your leadership. And then I also just want to finally thank the staff of the city. It's amazing what the city is doing. Josh and all the members of the staff, I mean I saw people working around the clock that night and all of you. I know that three of you were there to meet me that night but you all have been really out in the community, really understanding the needs of the community. I want to thank every member of this council and the fact that I appreciate how you're working together. When I talked to the speaker the other day and the governor, one of the things that I told them was the thing that is, you know, in a time when things are very bleak for a whole bunch of reasons. One of the bright and shining rays of light out there is the way that our communities are coming together, that elected officials and our government officials are coming together to do everything that we can to make sure that our communities needs are met. So thank you very much for having me tonight. this this evening and thank you for everything that you're doing. And I just wanna thank the city staff and the fire and the police chief in your office of emergency management again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Assemblymember, and thank you for your support. Hank Cunning. Good afternoon, Mayor, council members. I applaud your speed in considering emergency ordinance to allow us to use such schools to be located in non-residential areas without requiring a CUP on a temporary basis. But what is temporary? We estimate that rebuilding small private schools will take three years, assuming an expedited approval process in the city that the school's located. So maybe that's a good starting number to consider. But in addition to waiving this planning requirement, the Council needs to establish expedited approval processes for all other departments and relaxation of some codes. Schools need to find available vacant spaces at reasonable rents to quickly locate into. These could include creative offers spaces. In the city, often located in converted industrial buildings. Moving a school into such spaces, this is considered a change of use under the California Building Code and a change of use generally requires a building to be upgraded to the current building codes. That's a timely and expensive proposition. However, the California existing building code allows a change of use without complying with all the provisions of the building code subject to the approval of the city's building official. So I urge you to direct the building official to approve the use of that provision. And since school require extensive insurance, there simply cannot be any reduction in life safety standards, but things like allowing the use of portable toilets, for instance, to supplement the toilets that exist and they're not requiring energy upgrades or improved acoustic performance in classrooms. Those things could be waived on a temporary basis. Some exterior changes may be required for the project. Thank you, sir. The crime is strictly right. Thank you. Adam Finkel, I'm just a reminder to please state your name when you come to the mic. Adam Finkel. Adam Finkel, 1225 Hills Street, lifelong Santa Monica resident, and it's very hard to follow Hank in any regard terms. He basically laid out our concerns that the process be expedited in a manner that allows the health and safety issues to be accommodated, not with ignoring them, but to allow schools such as seven arrows or any other schools coming into the area to get started, get up and running as quickly as possible. So that way the community can stay intact and can function and can provide the kids what they really need which is continuity and and then work with the advise the staff to be supportive of that process and work towards target goals of supporting the rest of the safety issues that the building department has to follow at state level concerns, but can get to those in a manner that allows us to open and function. And that's the extent of what I have to say and speed is of the essence is you all understand and know. And thank you so much for your compassion and your support of the community. And that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And before I call up the next speaker just we have Eric Leslie and then we also have former council member Bobby Shriver. Good afternoon. I first want to say thank you to our first responders, police and fire. Thank you for keeping us safe as possible. It's good to see every each and every one of you guys. This has been a very treacherous and very scary time for all of us. I'm here today on behalf of some of our disabled neighbors. We should have our commissions back on tact because we do have some neighbors that are living by themselves. I couldn't sleep at night because there was a couple of my neighbors that are disabled, a couple of my world chairs, that if we had to evacuate they would have been left behind. So in our action plan and our emergency plan moving forward, please think about those the elderly and the disabled. Also, I want to also echo what my fellow commissioners also said about scams. We've already been scammed. Scams are going on rapidly in our city because our unhoused population is growing. And as the grills, the scrams grow as well. Sorry, I missed for now, say a little bit. But it's really been elevated already. So we really need to take advantage of this a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We have a lot of concerns. We you miss Leslie. For more council member Bobby Schreiver. Hi everybody. I apologize to Barry for growing my ponytail. I did that my only I know you're not offended Barry. I haven't met the rest of you. I was just driving by and heard about this. I know Barry's going to say something about it. And I wanted to come by and just Congratulations to the two chiefs who are here. I live on Adelaide Drive for 35 years as some of you know. That's been the front line of the city facing the fire in the palisades. On our street, one firefighter said to me says, looks like North Korea's demilitarized zone. Because there's so much equipment has been staged. They're on Adelaide Drive facing the canyon. And every cop that I've seen out there and every firefighter has been flawlessly a polite to the residents. We have a bunch of apartment buildings, as you all know, they're the face end of the city, face the Allianne Adelaide. All those residents have been running up and down the street going, what's happening? And all your staff, you see the chief, both the Alliann Adelaide. All those residents have been running up and down the street, going, what's happening? And all your staff, you see the chiefs here, have taken time with them, spoken quietly and nicely to them. These are those street people, right? Street cops, street firemen, not the fancy people in the community, but they've explained. And they've taken time with folks. And these guys deserve credit for the leadership on the creation of people like that. I think I've heard from other people in town that in other parts of the community that has not been the case. We don't want to seem negative in this time of sadness, but there has been some misinformation. There's been some negative reaction by some people to certain enforcement slash organizational things that have happened around town. I haven't heard it from anybody in Santa Monica. And since the jurisdiction of this body, as you all know, is Santa Monica, there's a tremendous temptation, or at least there was when I was around, to think that your jurisdiction extended to Europe. But in fact, your jurisdiction is Santa Monica. So the stuff that you're responsible for, these cops, these firemen are doing a great job. And they're doing it on the street in a local way. That's it in a way. And I talk a bit, I should have seen the timing. Thank you for my counsel, my bar. Thank you. And we have one last speaker last but not least John Smith. Thank you mayor thank you new council and everybody I just wanted to say I was just writing up and down Santa Centae and I saw the the National Guard and everyone's very respectful and polite and fun and offered a mass it's a a sad time because I think everybody in this room knows people that lost their homes just to the north and I also know someone that every house around their house got burned but there's a still there. So I try to, we should all look for silver linings when we can find them. I appreciate the mayor, you know, doing the curfew earlier rather than later. I think that's the big concern. A lot of people in fire zones working in news, people stay at their homes not to save their home, but they're afraid of someone coming in and stealing all their stuff. And I think that was proactive. And I wanted to echo Mr. Schreiber's comments, the chief of police and our fire chief. I mean, there's a reason that they're grade A1 and thank you all and this is a time for unity and I appreciate everything that you're doing. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. And that concludes public comment. That is correct. Well now move on to item 14a. Confirm and ratified proclamation of local emergency due to the policy fire. We're going to have a staff report. Council, yes, Mayor, I was going to kick it off. Doug Sloan city attorney. Under the authority of the municipal code in California law, the city manager acting as the director of emergency services issued in emergency order or proclamation on January 8 due to the tragic fire in the Palisades adjacent to Santa Monica. The mini code provides the order will expire in seven days unless ratified by the council. That is why we are here. The primary question in staff's recommendation is whether to ratify the emergency order effectively the existence of the emergency. Additionally, there have been some changes approved this morning. So we're asking the council to approve a resolution and revised emergency order two along with finding pursuant to section 15061B3, the common sense exemption of the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines that because the measures taken are among other things administrative or emergency and temporary in nature there is no possibility of significant effect on the environment. The findings to support the emergency order and rezo are in the orders and rezo better essentially these. A fire broke out in the hills of the Palisades area northwest of Santa Monica on Tuesday, January 7th. Because of extreme high winds, this fire spread rapidly, even threatening Santa Monica. One of the most significant fires in the history of LA County, now over 20,000 acres have burned with thousands of residences, businesses, and public buildings and infrastructure lost. Many thousands of residents have been displaced, many taking refuge in Santa Monica. And if I threatened the northern border of Santa Monica, resulting in mandatory evacuation orders and evacuation warnings for additional areas. In the mandatory evacuation areas, the police department has seen attempts at burglary and looting, given the expectation that residents are not there to monitor and protect their property. The key features of the emergency order are as follows. One, schools and childcare facilities displaced by the fire are permitted to relocate temporarily into Santa Monica and properties not necessarily zone for those uses. Two, preferential parking or permit parking, enforcement is suspended to allow displaced persons to partner homes in which Santa Monica residents have taken them in. Three, restrictions on home sharing or short-term rentals are suspended to allow displaced persons to find a place to reside as hotels may be fully occupied. Four prohibitions on price gousing, both retail and for tenants, are emphasized and the city will be enforcing this. There are five, there are prohibitions on residential evictions based upon unauthorized presence of pets belonging to people displaced by the fire. Six, there was a curfew imposed in mandatory evacuation zones between sunset and sunrise. This requires law enforcement to warn before resting for this, though. There are exceptions for certain authorized officials. Seven building permits are suspended in mandatory and warning evacuation areas to avoid potential causes of additional fires along with totally of any time limits to complete permitted work. Eight, purchasing regulations are relaxed to allow for emergency related purchases and contracting to be timely completed. Nine, mutual aid is authorized.. Bed and breakfasts, hotels and motels are authorized to allow tendencies beyond 30 days to allow for displaced persons to stay. That concludes the provisions of the January 8th order. With respect to the revised order entered today, the existing order continues with the following changes. A code reference with respect to price gouging is corrected. Some language in the eviction protection section is clarified. And lastly, language in the section dealing with construction activities is clarified and expanded to include a prohibition on landscaping activities in the mandatory evacuation area. Those are all of the changes. If the orders are ratified, they may continue as modified by the city manager from time to time until terminated by the city manager. The council's options today are one, make a motion to approve staff's recommendations, which includes ratifying the original order, the resolution, the revised order and the sequel finding, or two, make a motion to approve the above with direction to make specified changes, or three, take no action, but then the order will expire in January 15th. We are available for questions. Anybody have any questions? Any discussion, comments? Oh, okay, we'll put yours in. There's no request. Okay. Oh, do you want to just,, Mayor Pro Tem, Trosis? And? Oh, Council members of certain sky. Sorry, I was looking for the request to speak, and I didn't see the button. A different mode. Oh, OK. So I had a couple of questions, but. Start with the. Sorry. I'm not going to touch it. I have a few questions and a few suggestions I'll start with questions. For item one, the allowability of schools and non-residential zones without a CUP or conditional use use permit. What's typically that, what does the turnaround time look like and what are, is the definition of temporary in this case? I would suggest that Jane answer that question. So I think to answer your immediate question, this, you know, the temporary part is intended to last the length of the emergency order, right? So I think I would think about this in two phases. One is the immediate need, which you heard from some of the testimony today and then sort of what happens in the long term. So what the emergency order includes is essentially just a complete elimination of any conditional use permit. So it deals with the zoning aspect of it, right? And those UPs, $20,000 they can take a month. So that process is gone for schools that need to relocate. The building official and I are working actively. We've already met with one school or meeting again on Monday morning with another. And we're looking at the permitting process as a whole. And I can tell you that, you know, he's taking along with the Fire Marshal as flexible and approach as we possibly can, given the tempering nature of the occupancy. We understand, you know, obviously the situation we're in here, and we're also under discussions of, you know, what we can do for fees as well, you know, to try and reduce those as much as we can. I was head of the norm, try to limit the plan check routing process. It speeds things up. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but we're also looking at the opportunity to allow ways that we can expedite or have concurrent plan check review while occupancy takes place. obviously, you know, ways that we can kind of expedite or have concurrent plan check review, you know, while occupancy takes place. But obviously, you know, we don't want to create new hazards. We're to replace ones because obviously we're dealing with a population, you know, very young children. So, you know, there's fire safety, ingress, egress, that sort of stuff. We will make sure that, you know, those critical items are addressed, you know, before these places are occupied, but we're definitely here to try and expedite the process as much as possible from a permitting standpoint. Thank you. On, this is so, okay, that's the, thank you so much. So, section two, the language around the preferential parking rules suspension. I noticed that it specifically says for residents that provide accommodations to persons displaced by the fire, but persons who were displaced by the fires also need suspension of preferential parking rules. I don't know, sorry, that might be bearing into comments or suggestions. How, okay, item four on the prohibitions on price gouging could someone clarify how that's being enforced and how somebody who feels like they suggest they report to the city attorney's office. Okay. Would that be just with the. My gosh, my brain is linking. The consumer affairs. Consumer protection. Consumer protection. Okay. And so would they just submit something on the And using the complaint form? They can do that or call and leave a message. Okay. And we can get back to them. All right, thank you. There are my notes. Item five, the piece to prohibit or to restrict evictions prohibit or to restrict evictions of residential tenants because of more folks and or pets staying with them who are fleeing the fires. I notice that it is specific to the palisades fire, but there might be folks who are staying with people in Santa Monica who might have been affected by the other wildfires as well. I recognize that the policy is far as the closest. But I think people might have family and friends all over LA. So would that be something that we could consider changing the language of. That's a policy question for the city manager. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I think that's perfectly acceptable. If that's what the council wants to give that direction completely. Okay, right. I think that's it for my questions for now, but I think I might have more. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor for Tim Trozos. Yeah, hi. I just wanted to clarify, I'll make a statement in a question. I would like to prioritize folks on our below market housing wait list who have been displaced as a result of the policy fire and who qualify for our below market housing wait list. I understand we did that during the wolvesie fire and we have some draft language for that. How difficult would it be for us to update the current proclamation and can we do that today to take effect today? We can do those things very quickly, yes. Okay, and do we need to come back to another meeting to ratify the changes? No, once the council ratifies the emergency proclamation, then the manager has ongoing authority to make changes. It can be very fluid without coming back to the kitchen. Okay, great. you will wait for discussion in all state. So. Basically you can give direction to make a change. I would like to do that. Thanks. Councilmember'swick. Returning to this question of the length of the order and temporary basis and the meanings thereof. Did the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the So that then is that there are certain things but yes, it's the city manager's decision and it could be components continue and not other components too. Yeah, my question that relates to that then is that there are certain things here whether it is a school deciding whether or not to relocate to Santa Monica or a building deciding whether or not to provide short term rentals or other other settings to people who are looking for releases that there might be some desire for certainty to know a length of time that they can expect that that will be offered to them before they make a business decision like that. And my question is, while I understand that these will be in effect as long as the emergency is in effect or as long as it's until it's changed, is there a way that we could put in the language of this order, that for of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the to a year subject to the... health is rescinded before that or not. As Jing walks up, I would say absolutely. The council could say that provision is available for up to a year subject to the emergency order being extended for whatever reason. Another option is that we could convert it to an IZL at some point. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. Because I just, like, we're really thinking about this in phases. There's this, like, immediate need, right? where there's a tremendous housing need, relocation, and so we're dealing with the critical pieces right now, but if it enacts a longer term policy change, we wanna be dynamic, and fluid, and responsive to the needs that we're seeing within the community. So I think we have many tools to be able to accommodate however the length and whatever the mechanisms we do to do that. Right, my concern though is that there are people who are trying to make decisions about where they're going to locate. And if they have no sense of how long these things will last for and there's no guarantee. I think as the manager said, if you wanted to give that direction through the order to set a time, you could certainly have the ability to do that. Thank you. Let me let me see if there's anything else. I did. I assume that the language is broad, and as far as enforcement goes, it will be broad in terms of providing relief. But I did agree with Council Members Ernest Guy that it was a little confusing that it said that parking rules would be suspended for residents. That provide accommodations to displaced by the Palisades fire. It strikes me that we're mainly looking to provide relief to people who are displaced. It sounds as if it's being provided to the residents who are offering accommodations. We can look at clarifying the wording. And then I also do agree that we live in a region where while the Palisades fire is the closest to us, there are several very large and traumatic fires that are going to see people displaced across the region. And I do wonder if the language around Palisades fire, even if, you know, as a practical matter, we're not going to be interrogating you as to where you were displaced from when it comes to the enforcement of some of these, whether it might be better to make some reference instead to the, and I'm struggling for the right words myself here, but the LA area fires that have all come this month in this moment in time. My last question relates to building and planning permits. I don't see reference to them in this order, and I could imagine that this is something that we don't have to address in this moment, but I do know that, and I'm already hearing concerns from people who say that this exact moment will not be an easy one to perhaps put together the final steps or financing or contracting or construction boots on the ground, shovels on the ground needed to start projects that might be set to expire in the year 2025. And I know that in other circumstances we've offered to extend various approvals permits in instances like this. And I'm just curious if that's contemplated, whether we should contemplate that now or whether we can do so in the near future to make sure that if there are people with building or planning permits who can't move forward on them as quickly as they'd hoped that we can maybe extend them by a year if they're gonna expire in 2025 or something like that. Yeah, that absolutely. You're talking generally across the whole city. Yeah, I mean, generally, certainly the council has that policy ability to give us that direction whether it's through this or some other mechanism. Okay thank you. Okay councilmember Hall. Thank you Mayor I just have a question about the short-term tenancy regulations. Do we have processes in place to ensure this doesn't balloon into a new crop of long-term illegal air being bees? Well, it would be, we would have to be aware of it and complaint driven, but yes, this exception is only during the existence of the emergency. So if that's seven days, if that's 30 days, that's it. Beyond that, then those restrictions would kick back in. So if we were made aware of somebody violating the ordinance when it would return to the normal legal conditions after the emergency order, then we would be enforcing that, yes. Okay, what is our capacity to have a more active management of that process? You know, at the moment, I'd have to get back to you on that and talk with our code enforcement staff about how they can more actively manage it, but I'm certain that we can. I can say within our office, we would repart our ties, some other things to focus on that. Councilmember Raskin. Thank you. I've received a few inquiries and this is a question either for David or maybe Chief Hallock about the status of perhaps adding no burn orders or addressing rules regarding to covered fire pits. I know we got one email of somebody who observed somebody burning a covered fire pit in their backyard. And I wonder if somebody could speak to whether or not there's been a flat as to a total ban, like a total burn ban or addressing covered fire pits. Good afternoon. You know, with Red Flag warning, when there are issues, certain limitations restriction restrictions going to place, that is one of those restrictions, but covered fire pits or something that are part of the fire code. So if we expand that in Red Flag warning or add to that, we can certainly look at addressing that through, you know, whatever process we want to go through. But absolutely. I mean, do you have any thoughts? I know, you're putting on the spot the spot here but any thoughts on the fly bet your comfort level with folks using covered fire pits this time? Well we're we're in a red flag warning so anytime when the red flag morning is a cause for concern for us so anytime we can reduce a risk such as that then I would be in favor of that and as the fire department we're always looking to reduce risk and that would be one mechanism for doing that so that was something we would look at for sure okay yeah I think we'll come back to that discussion thank you absolutely I have a quick question oh oh sorry I just on that same note we the email that we got there was a specific note from AQMD saying like absolutely not you You know, it seems so secure on that. I think we're looking for a message to the community, whether or not it's safe. I mean, we presume common sense would say, please don't burn your fire. If that's something the direction we want to go, absolutely stand behind that 100% from the fire department. Okay, sorry, I mean, it interrupt. Sorry. Just a few more real quick questions. with respect to the comments about creating a rent registry. I mean, do we have, is there an easy way to just scrape, or have somebody in staff just scrape all the websites that are offering rent listings right now just so we can capture that? Any units that's offering any rental unit right now? Yeah, just like, you know, I'm sure IT staff can find a way to, you know, download all the websites. I honestly do not know if there's an easy way to capture that amount of data. Do we, I think we're still in questions. We're going to go into discussion in a second, but it sounds like Mayor Pro Tem, Tiros has an answer to that or suggestion. Okay, maybe we'll come back to that in discussion then. Yeah, some of the things have already been asked. Just with respect to the suspension of leasing regulations, maybe this is a question for Doug, but hypothetically, if we were to not exclude the regulations with respect to leases natural persons requiring the primary residents and the enforcement protections for those parts, would that create any issues? I don't think it would give them the circumstances. Okay. I'm not sure. And there's be more specific in what we're exempting. I'm so my understanding as the right now the emergency order would suspend everything in chapter 6.22. Right in the specified sections. Yes. I think it's 2.02 to 2.02, 2L and 22. Right. So I'm thinking about maybe creating an exception to the suspended section for I'm thinking specifically of section 6.22.040, which requires there to be at least a natural persons and section 6.22.050, which requires that the residence piece is a primary residence, and then there are a bunch of enforcement sections related to that in section 6.22.110 through 6.22140. We can refine that. Okay, fine. And I have a follow-up also. Okay, Mayor. The question about reporting on price gouging, that public can report those online at sm consumer dot org. Can you just repeat that? SM consumer dot org price gouging complaints. Okay price gouging can be reported at sm consumer dot org. Yes. More questions. We're still in questions. I just want to make sure Council members. Just following up on that last question. When we talk about it, primary residents, I mean, what is the legal definition thereof? Because we're going to have a lot of people who are looking for temporary residents. So I'm just trying to understand how one establish establishes what a primary residence is. I don't want this change to actually prevent people from seeking refuge here. I'm not sure of the question. The suggestion was to remove the removal of a requirement that a rental housing unit be attendance primary residence. And the question is what would that do to someone who is seeking refugees in San Monica? We have the definition of primary residents in 622. Like I said, we understand the overall concern. Let us take a look at drafting. I'm not sure that requiring the primary residents because it's sort of like based, how would you prove that it's what's on your driver's license? And if that home is now gone, then that's gonna prevent that. So I think in the moment, everything's lifted just to provide that ultimate flexibility because people need housing. I think again, think about this in phases of the immediate need. And then we can's a great way to get the public to the public. And I think that's a great way to get the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the public to the 6.2 because it's a short term rental piece right versus the like three months six month nine months sort of thing where people need some you know where to live until they get back on their feet so thank you for that clarification the next step is to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. So we're going to move into the next step. First we're going to move the item. Then we'll go into discussion and direction as to amending. Some of this is that. When we want to move it with. I asked in this. I asked in this. As a past doesn't matter if we move it. Make motion to approve or approve with direction to make changes. I would prefer to. I've been taking notes on all the changes and I can announce them or we can't. How would you like to go forward with that? I do think there's some discussion that wants to be had as well. I propose that we do the discussion and then make the motion just so that we know what changes were proposing first. Okay. I'm going to. Looks like this isn't working so if you'll just signal to me I'm going to call on Mayor Protem to Russ proposing first. Okay. I'm going to. Okay. I agree. Okay. Um, it looks like this isn't working. So if you'll just signal to me, I'm going to call on mayor pro time to roasts first and then we're in discussion. Now and this is a good opportunity to give your recommendations to staff. Sure. So before I get into the recommendations, I just want to say. Echoing everyone else. Thank you Chief Helix, thank you Chief Batista, thank you our entire teams, thank you to our city manager, to all of our city staff, to really all of our first responders, to our emergency operations and our U.S. are all working so, so incredibly hard. I hope the people of Santa Monica know what amazing first rate staff that we have that are absolutely keeping us safe and literally sacrificing every hour of sleep to do it. So just thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to say that I've had some discussions with the city attorney's office prompt price scouting. I think we're all very concerned about that. And I understand that there might be a regional anti-price scouting effort coming into place. I know that that's going to be part of the ratified order that the county is doing on Tuesday. And I just, I think it's important that we all collaborate regionally with respect to price-gouging, specifically around tenancies. Doug, I've already forwarded you some stuff, but we're already seeing that price-gouging happening perhaps. And not necessarily like evidence price-gouging, but when council member Raskin says, let's take a temperature of the rents in the city right now. I think we're already seeing rents that have been increased. LA Times has already written about it, et cetera. So I don't, the only thing that I can suggest, city manager white, have we already executed our contract with host compliance from Mr. Mix section? Yes. OK. Because my understanding is that host compliance does have proprietary software that can scrub, because I don't think we have in house capacity, but they do have data that takes like with back end API information from all the rental sites that can figure out average rents potentially like direct rents. I'm not sure what capabilities they have, but I think it's probably more than the capabilities that we have with our IT department. So I might suggest that we at least and base with them to see if there's anything we do to help, even if we need to execute a contract amendment. I think we've all talked about this here about the rent registry just to our rent control board commissioners points. I mean, I'll just say it publicly was planning, I was planning with some other council members on coming forward at our next regularly scheduled meeting to prioritize the rent registry because that's something that we had already asked for dating back over a year. If you recall, when we did the tenant protections ordinance, we had already, we had also asked for next steps on how to create a rent registry. So that's absolutely top of mind. And I think that this is expected that need. In terms of resources from enforcement on the short-term rental policy, I think that it's important we just reallocate existing resources right now, including additional resources to code enforcement. Because I think we've all had people reach out to us about waving some of the short-term rental requirements that I could easily see a loophole being taken advantage of there. And if we again if we need to increase our contract with house compliance or other unfortunate mechanisms, I would be in favor of that. However, with respect to the actual order that we are approving today, interested to hear more from council members Wic about waving some of our building or implement requirements and making it easier for folks to relocate here and folks who are already engaged in projects to continue doing those projects. And to put a final point on my earlier question, I personally would love to hear other folks's opinions would like to prioritize on the bull market housing wait list, people who qualify for the bull market housing wait list that have been displaced from any of the fires. And I don't think it's very equitable to just say the policy is fire. I think we need to think about many of the people who have been displaced by the eaten and fire, so we would love to have that discussion here and figure out how far do we go and we say fires and how do we define those. But I think we should consider that as well. Thank you. Who is next for discussion? Can's members work to do you have any? Can's members work? I think can just, I guess, respond to that and also suggest a few changes based on the prior discussion in questions. First of all, I would support Council member Taurusis and adding language that would provide, excuse me, priority for those on the who are displaced by policy fire and perhaps other fires. The only consideration there is those that perhaps live and work here now that are also waiting a long time for affordable housing. But nonetheless, the wood support priority for those displaced from rent control or due to restricted affordable units in the policy, it's fire area to get priority on our below market wait list since that is our immediate neighbor. And I think at the very least, I agree that we should do that. When it comes to some of the concerns that I raised and the Councilman retresses echoed around allowing schools and frankly I think looking forward we should also maybe down the line also think about businesses and other things as well that are similarly displaced but for now when we we talk about schools that are perhaps the most urgent, I'm really heartened to hear from Jane and our building official who I'm not sure if he's here, but I'm really heartened to hear that there's going to be a lot of flexibility going forward. I'm not going to attempt to say what building code specific provisions should or shouldn't be waived. But I do think that, you know, it might be worth adding language to the effect that the building official is, you know, is granted broad powers to provide relief from specific building code requirements that are not related to immediate threats to life safety. That follow from a change of use in order to ensure the speedy resumption of learning opportunities for students in schools affected by the policy its fire. And I did specifically like the idea that if it's specific building code requirements that, or even issues in plan check that are not related to ingress, egress, and other immediate life safety issues that there could be some possibility of operating with a permit while that process is ongoing. So I just think that's something that we can discuss it, but I hope the council would be in favor of and just, you know, fully supportive of granting as much flexibility as possible in that issue. The last thing I would say just in relation to the time periods as mentioned prior was I would propose that when it comes to this specific item one around the waiver of a conditional use permit, as well as item three, around allowing housing providers to potentially provide short-term and furnished rentals or other things like that that we waive that requirement for, I would say one year at least in the case of the schools and six months, at least in the case of temporary rentals, just so that there's investments required to potentially do this. And if they think it might go away in 15 days, they might not think it's worth doing. So I would propose it be six months at least in number three. And obviously these could be subject to increased renewals if needed by further further renewal by council, if necessary. Councilor, why would suggest on those items, see what we're doing here is subject to the existence of the declaration of the emergency. There may be another mechanism and we'll take that as direction to bring those mechanisms back to get that done, whether it's through ICO or whatever it may be. We can bring those changes separately too. Okay. I just want people to feel assured that if the emergency ends, these particular provisions won't suddenly end as well. Right. So as long as we sort of simultaneously work on making that known in a and ultimately, you know, some form of temporary emergency or in-term zoning ordinances that are needed, then that would be important. What I think we can do to help is that reflect in the emergency order the intent to do that. Okay. I have a question. If that's okay, if anyone wants to speak. In terms of making sure that we are expediting permits and whatnot for development to make sure that we're providing housing for those that have been impacted by the fire, how do we balance that with new developers that might take advantage of that that aren't specifically maybe serving the needs of that community. I know that's a little interesting question. I'm not even sure that it applies in how you would do that. But, you know, I think we'll take that direction if it is the council's intent to prioritize specifically, you know, all things being equal that we would move someone to the front of the line who's relocating. We'll take that direction from you. We can certainly add to you. I'm sorry, you're talking about the developers. Like those that weren't in business before and they're already in the process right now, helping those developers expedite versus someone may be coming in new. Is there a balance act with that or no? I mean, I think that's where we're, if we wanted to prioritize someone who was relocating versus someone who wasn't, right? Who was affected by the fire versus the frozen, it would be helpful to have that clarity to explain why we're prioritizing resources for something else. Because we have who we have. I think you're talking about people who are affected. And I'm specifically talking about the expediting of developers. Yes, developers. Yeah, as far as I can tell, I don't read that in the order. It's just right now about permitting for schools for schools. Okay. Yeah, not not. Yeah, the order is not about kind of every every permit in the city. Okay. That would be a separate conversation. That was my only question. Is there more discussion? Wait, sorry. So it's just schools? Yeah, currently. I think we should think about expanding it to businesses who can prove that they were doing business in a wildfire area that need to read home themselves here. So you might expand to other commercial. Yeah, commercial I jumped in the line. It's schools and child care facilities. Go CUP for the childcare facilities? No CUP for those, yeah, in non-residential zones. Yeah. So currently it's schools and childcare facilities. What's contemplated now is the lack of a CUP. What's not written specifically, but has been spoken to, is also flexibility from building code requirements that come along with a change of use. And I do think both, I would love to enshrine that in some way, even though I think it's already happening and I'm appreciative just in terms of writing and I think I'd mention that. And second, I do agree on some fashion that, when it comes to maybe local businesses as well, it would be nice to provide some flexibility in a similar fashion. Councilmember Snow? I just want to add to that I to agree that if we could add the ability for businesses that also been displaced that we can support on a temporary basis to so that they don't have to go through a CPOP process and we can expedite that. Yeah. Something that I'd be really interested in without anyone taking advantage of it. I mean, that's the difficult part of it, but I think it's important. We've done a lot of work in the post-COVID recovery to remove a lot of those barriers. So I think we're very much well positioned in terms of relocating, you know, schools are a bit of a unique use. Other kinds of businesses, like retail restaurants, that what have you, you know, that it is, that will actually be a much simpler, you know, endeavor if they're looking for space within there and we're already starting to work to try and, you know, identify available spaces and try and facilitate that process as well. Sorry, to be clear then, you're saying that businesses that were already in business, we're already doing the work tax but I think that we don't need to add specific language around. Yeah, like with within Santa Monica, you know, just we're not talking about fire displacement right just existing permits. Yes, I mean that in terms of all of the recovery efforts in terms of moving, you know, any permitting barriers and you know working to remove barriers for businesses to open. A lot of that work has happened over the last few years already. I hear your direction in terms of looking for other ways to do that, that's something that we work on. I think the concern is, for example, if there's a chain or two mom and pop shops that are one was affected by one was affected by the fire and specifically assisting them and making sure that it's expeditiously opened here in Santa Monica and putting them at a priority because they were impacted by the fire. Yes, yeah, that's something that we can add to the order for clarity. Okay, Council members are in its guy. I just had a quick question. If we're discussing expediting or waving or amending CEP rules as part of this for businesses, I just want to clarify, are nonprofits included in the definition of businesses? We could look at that. Right now, it's very specific to schools and early child care facilities, but if you want to expand that to nonprofits or other kinds of uses you have in mind, please let us know and we can take your direction on that. Yeah, because I would support the direction to include businesses who are displaced, and I think if the council is amenable to it, I would love to include nonprofits as well because I think there's going to be nonprofits that are going to be displaced or have been displaced already that will want to provide services to their community. Okay, thank you, Councillor Mimah Hall. Yeah, as my first comment here, I just want to echo the thanks to Chief Sy and our public safety divisions. Also to our partners in the 330th Military Police California National Guard for keeping us safe. Thank you for all you're doing. I agree with Councillor Moura's Wic. I would definitely like to I think of time established, particularly for our home sharing ordinance and any changes to that. I think six months is appropriate and providing the strongest safeguards against exploitation. I think that's really important for ensuring we are not harming folks seeking long-term residency and ensure housing stock remains available for renters, but also to protect our hotel industry. And six months we put us at right at the start of the summer. I think that would be an appropriate time to relook at that. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else have any other comments? Okay. I'm sorry. the room and those who are out in the field and all the city staff who are working tirelessly, literally around the clock to address these issues. It's really hard to be an advocate for others when you're experiencing adversity yourself, and I know that people in our city community have lost homes, family members of lost homes, and my heart goes out to those who are impacted by this. So deeply, thank you all for your work on this. I agree with a lot of the points that have been made. I agree with prioritizing below market rate applicants in this. I agree with expanding it to other fires. I agree with the time limits on the short-term rental ordinance. I hope my colleagues will support a add into the emergency order a ban on covered out or fire pits and other appropriate measures. I do as Council Mayor Pro Tem, it's a little too we can work with our short term rental monitoring software to capture the rental data that we need to appropriately enforce these anti-prouses gouging laws. I also hope my colleagues will support some surgical exceptions to the suspension of leasing regulations in chapter 6.22. The two that I have in mind specifically is the requirement regarding leases to natural persons. I understand council members Wix point about primary residences, but I hope that we can still maybe be a little bit more circumspect about spending that for the time being. I'm concerned about folks who will opportunistically take the, I don't know why they would, but I'm still concerned that folks would try to rent multiple units at a time when there's extraordinary scarcity. And of course, the enforcement provisions that go along with those. I do think we should be prioritizing at this point, helping out displaced schools and early childhood education centers above other types of businesses. I don't exactly know how to phrase that in terms of adding it to the ordinance, but I mean obviously we should be doing what we can to support other types of displaced businesses, but I think we should put schools and childhood centers at the front of the line. I think those are all my comments, and again, deepest of thanks to those who are working around the clock. I know that this is gonna be years and years of recovery and our city stands by with all those who've been affected. Thank you, Mayor Patim Trussis. I just have a question to clarify since I'm pretty familiar with the natural persons requirement. Are you saying that we lift the natural persons requirement or keep the natural persons requirement and lift everything else? As I understand it, the emergency order would lift or essentially suspend everything after 6.2 days. I want to make sure that the natural personal requirement is kept in effect. Okay, I agree with that. And I just want to anecdotally provide some information. I literally just got an email from an attorney who said that there is a Santa Monica apartment building that has no rental history. And all of a sudden yesterday, four one bedroom units popped up Zillow for $6,500 a month. So this is happening, it's not a story like it's happening here. So I think we have to be super vigilant and I do agree that we could see corporate actors coming in, like you mentioned, renting 10 units and then re-wending them to people at a higher price. So we have to protect our rent control stock. I think I absolutely agree and I just to employ my council members to agree that we should keep the natural persons requirement. Thank you. Council Member Zwick? Yeah, I'm happy to support, you know, retaining the requirement that rentals be to natural persons. I do think, I don't think it makes sense in this emergency where people are seeking temporary shelter to make requirements that it be their primary residence, especially if it's not technically their primary residence, if they still have one, if they're, you know, if they're driver's license as they live elsewhere and all their documents. So I'm more reticent. I'm opposed to changing or preserving that other requirement in this moment of emergency. When it comes to questions of schools, businesses, et cetera, I mean, I think we should be clear here. The ordinance. that other requirement in this moment of emergency. When it comes to questions of schools, businesses, et cetera, I mean, I think we should be clear here, the ordinance, sorry, the order, the emergency order really only speaks to conditional use permits for schools. Expediting is great, and I think we're all on the same page that we want to expedite, but it's not really contemplated for anyone in this order. I think the only thing that's being contemplated additionally right now, which I'm trying to make clear is that when it comes to change of use permits, not just conditional use permits, but just simple change of use for a structure that we have a lot of different code requirements, many of which are imposed by the state, some of which are imposed locally around energy efficiency, all sorts of things that we all find very lot of will, but can take months and a lot of time and money to meet. And I think it's those type of building code requirements that we're talking about waivers from. It's less about, well, of course, this would help expedite getting someone into a space. It's less about saying move faster with approving people. It's about waving certain building code requirements to get people into space as quick. Anybody else have any other discussion? If not, I'm just somebody want to move this item and then we can give direction and fine tune it. So council, I assume the motion to approve would include a consensus direction for all of the changes that have been mentioned. Well, we will document all of those. I mean, I've been keeping notes so we can clarify. Okay. What I was going to do is move the item and then make sure we fine tune them. And if the council is amenable, I can read what we have and we can call on people and see how we can fine tune it to a suggestion, Mayor Prattam. No, sure, that's great. So moved. I like second. Okay, so now I'm going to read what I've captured so far and I will please leave and I will we can fine tune it. And we've been capturing most of this stuff. So we have clarified language for parking restrictions to expand outside of only those offering housing. To add or amend language regarding pets, to prioritize the below market housing wait list, to clearly put language around price gouging, the decision to operate without a CUP for up to, whatever that is, a year, convert to an ICO, Airbnb language to protect leopolds and illegal extended operations, permitting expediting for schools, prioritizing schools and childcare centers, CUP modifications, a burn on covered fire pits, development permits and how we will expedite those and as council members would just clearly stated removing some of those specifics that bottleneck it. And then also including businesses and nonprofits and yeah I had something about protecting those around the immediate need. Did I miss anything council? Those affected by any fire in LA County? All right and extending the language to include not just the policy it's fire and in fact this resolution itself I don't know if it should be titled differently just those that have been impacted by the fires in this region and council member. Yeah just you just quick clarifications and the folks will jump in and correct me. Just with respect to the short term or the price gouging perhaps I could be understood that our direction is to use whatever resources are available to capture data about prices that existed before the emergency and to the extent that it's supported by other other council members to expedite the work that is being done on getting our registry finished. And then with respect to the suspension to chapter 6.22, that this is at least my request, that we do not suspend section 6.22.040, which requires leases to be to natural persons, that we do not suspend section 6.22.050 to the extent that it can be shown that a person has another primary residence at the time of the lease. And that we do not suspend the enforcement provisions in section 6.22110 through 6.22140 as the applies to the non-suspended provisions. Is the maker in the second or amenable to those specific and you're keeping track of the specific. Councillor members. I can't support the idea that we're only going to allow this to be people's primary residences. I mean, just by way of example, my parents have a home in the palisades that I think as far as they know is still standing, they're not going to be back in that home for weeks or months. So what's their primary residence? Are they not allowed to rent in the city of San Monica? I just don't understand why we would do that. City Attorney, do you have any comments on how we would get around that language? Well, I think two concepts. One, if they've lost a home, they no longer have that primary resident. What if it's still standing? Well, you can't. Maybe they don't have access to it. And my understanding also is that you don't want people renting more than one place in Santa Monica, occupying more than one place, and then sublacing it out to somebody else. Can we just clarify that language right here? This is why I asked what the definition of a primary residence was when I heard it from from the community development director. It sounded more technical than just we'll figure out where you live. But I'm saying is that it's affected by the disaster here because we have people displaced either because their house burned or they just can't get to it right now Because of evacuation, but we're not gonna be literally trying to Figure out for every person making a rental in Santa Monica where they came from I think what we're asking is to clarify the definition of a primary residence and then develop language around this Organs so that we are very clear as to whether or not you have Completely lost your primary residence or lost access to and because of the. So that is the intent. So I mean, I have the code up now, so I can just read out what the definition of a primary residence is to help facilitate the conversation. So primary residence means the usual place of return for housing of an owner or tenant as documented by at least two of the following. A motor vehicle registration, a driver's license, or California State identification card, voter registration, income tax return, proof of payment of resident tuition to a California public institution of higher education, including proof of payment in accordance with an exemption to payment of non-resident tuition under California Assembly Bill 540, California DreamDact or Utility Bill. And owner or tenant can only have one primary residence. Right, so anyone relocating is not gonna have any of those things and most of them are not gonna intend to if they're only gonna stay here for three months. It doesn't make sense that they would relocate in that legal sense. We're not discussing the intent requirement. Either there has to be an intent to return and the intent I would think of someone whose home is Burned down is that the intent to return to it after they build it so I would have to raise council members Wick that we should probably not wave Excuse me not You're we're waving the whole thing. Yeah, wave the wafer. Yeah, yeah Confirmative sky you get your hand up up, but I hear you and yeah, I'm fine walking that back. Councilmember Zoonidzkaya. Well, since we just figured that out, that's fine, but I thought of another potential solution of just prohibiting sub leasing of units that are leased pursuant to this emergency order. So that makes sense. So that way they don't like rent it and then re-re-re-re-rent it to somebody else. Do you mean sub-leasing of the entire unit or could you still sub-lease a room? Oh, that's a good question. I think our concern is we don't want folks to take advantage of the situation, rent a bunch of homes, and then re-rent then add a substantially higher cost. I mean, I know that'd be price gouging, and prohibited by other things. But if somebody is staying at a home share or in a unit that's that's we're exempt thing to have a good time. So, I think that's a good thing to have a good time. So, I think that's a good time. So, I think that's a good thing to have a good time. So, I think that's a good time. So, I think that's a good thing to have a good time. So, I think that's a good time. Clearly, I think we've already figured it out by. Well, can I just offer those that City Attorney come back with some very specific language as to what has been discussed? Clearly, I think you understand the intent as does staff, as it pertains to renting rooms and whatnot. We just really want to make sure that people aren't taking advantage of this opportunity. opportunity. So whatever legal language is needed to clarify that, I think what I hear from the entire council here is we want to be extremely clear and not have sort of ambiguous language that could get people either in trouble or allow people to take advantage Not allow it to be overly broad. So I think the intent is that It must still must be a natural person and you can only rent one unit in the city of Santa Monica Right Councilmember Hall and I think I did see a good time to have around the dius for a time limit on the six months for home sharing ordinance in 12 months for the schools in child care centers. Correct. Does council feel comfortable that we've captured most of the direction for staff here and clarification on legal language at the city attorney's office. Yes? Can we go back just and I apologize for the section one. I understand section one right now is currently focused on schools and I'm just not clear on the businesses and non-profits component because the term business is a fairly large category. So I just want to understand what council's intent is with that one section. The section around businesses, Temtrosis. I think we were I'm gonna lie to clarify but I think what I understood was Anybody who was impacted already in business and impacted by the fire? Yeah, can we can we define it as someone who's been doing business in LA County for X number of months Who's been who's business is now shuttered as a result of the fires or like significantly impacted loss of revenue, whatever it is that they can't go back to their original place of business and have to relocate to Santa Monica. Is there a way to define that better? Does that make sense? Yeah, it does, it's helpful. I think, yeah, just- How's the numbers, Mike? Just to add a little to that. Yeah, any any business that was, you know, in Elac County that's been impacted or displaced that is looking to reopen in Santa Monica that, you know, I mean, most businesses now wouldn't require as as we mentioned a conditional use permit, but just that when it comes to getting their permit, you know, if the building requires to be brought up to a number of different code standards that we would be as flexible as we are with the schools, as we are with getting those businesses up and running in a manner that would potentially waive certain requirements if it could enable them to get operating under the assumption that I think under a certain, after a certain period of time they would meet all of those requirements, but just allow them to get operating as fast as they can. Councillor Moorahal. staff and I think we're ready to do a real call vote. Council Member Zernitz-Guyot? Yes. Council Member Snow? Yes. We are putting Tarosa's. Yes. Council Member Raskin? Yes. Council Member Hall? Yes. Council Member Zili? Yes. That motion a number of all. Yes. That's my resolution. Yes. You're in the grant. Yes. That motion passes 7-0. And I guess we'll just adjourn in memory of all of those who have lost family, property, et cetera, in the fires. Yes. We also want to remind Santa Monica, I'm just going to take this quick brief opportunity to remind everyone to please respect the evacuation orders and the personnel that are there. We have the National Guard, we have the police, and we know that it is very hard. We still do have the curfew and effect, which is sunset to sunrise. So please, we've had some reports of people going in with their resident IDs in the mandatory evacuation zones wanting to get in. Unfortunately, you cannot get in during that time. And we ask that you please respect that in order to allow our first responders to do their job and also we need to keep that area clear and safe. We will be giving you updates. Please follow us on Santa Monica.gov. All of the council members up here have socials as well that are giving out those updates. So besides following Santa Monica.gov and our socials at the City of Santa Monica on Instagram. Also you can follow the council members here. We are all sharing that information as rapidly as we possibly can. I'm going to talk to you in a minute, ma'am. Thank you, Santa Monica. Please stay safe. Air quality is changing throughout the day, up and down. Wear a mask. Try to stay indoors as much as you can. And our hearts are with all of you impacted. Thank you and stay safe.