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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 3

Citation
Section 3
Parent Document
Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley, 550 P.2d 1001 (1976)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
1976-06-16

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Interveners postulate that a landlord’s application for an upward rent adjustment under the charter amendment would be acted upon in two or three months, citing a study which states that under the Massachusetts rent control law (Mass. Acts 1970, ch. 842) “[t]he average length of time between filing a petition and receiving a decision from the Rent Control Board ranges from four to five weeks in Somerville to 10 to 12 weeks in Brookline.” But the Massachusetts statute gives local rent control boards the very powers which we have described as being withheld from the Berkeley Board by the charter amendment.