Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)

Citation: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Parent Document: Cal. Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena (2025)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2025-12-18
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10761039/cal-apartment-assn-v-city-of-pasadena/ ↗

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initiative power to propose a charter repeal and the separate
power of a governing body or charter commission to propose
charter revisions. Before the streamlining of article XI in 1970,
there was no prescribed power to propose a charter revision, but
the electorate could compel an election to determine whether a
county charter should be repealed. (See Cal. Const., art. XI,
former § 7.5.) In creating section 3, subdivision (b), the
Constitution Revision Commission explained that “[t]he existing
provision for proposing repeal of county charters by elector
petition is revised to permit repeal to be proposed by governing
bodies or by initiative and this right is extended to cities.” (Cal.
Const. Revision Com., Proposed Revision (1968) p. 54.) The
Commission explained that, in addition to these changes,
“[a]uthorization is added [under subdivision (b)] permitting
charter commissions and governing bodies to propose charter
‘revision.’ ” (Ibid.) Thus, not only is the interveners’
interpretation of subdivision (b) contrary to the plain language of
the provision, it is belied by drafting history showing the
Commission intended the powers to propose a repeal and propose
a revision to be distinct.

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