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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all appointees to a body authorized to propose reorganization of
local government” and further rejected as illegitimate the
asserted rationale that property ownership ensured knowledge of
community issues and long-term community attachment. (Id. at
pp. 106-108.) The property ownership requirement thus did not
pass the rational basis test. (Id. at pp. 108-109.)
       Turner and Quinn are inapt comparisons for the
circumstances here. As discussed, none of the Rental Board
positions is subject to a property ownership requirement.
Moreover, neither Turner nor Quinn considered whether
eligibility requirements based on tenancy status or rental
property interest could pass constitutional muster. Nor did
either consider plausible justifications for differential treatment
of board candidates like those proffered for Measure H. Further,
in Turner and Quinn, the property ownership requirement
applied to every board position. Thus, neither case considered
the constitutional significance of conditioning some but not all
board positions on a particular eligibility requirement such as
that at issue here. For these myriad reasons, petitioners’
comparisons to Turner and Quinn are misplaced and do not
support their equal protection claim.
       In sum, the Pasadena voters had a rational basis to
distinguish Tenants without a Material Interest in Rental
Property from all others for purposes of the Rental Board’s
composition.
              d.   Disclosure requirement
       As a standalone part of their equal protection claim,
petitioners argue that Measure H “burdens would-be landlord
members’ ability to serve by forcing them to comprehensively
disclose” any rental property interest in Los Angeles County held

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