Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to this meeting of the City Council's Rules Committee.

For the record, we have a quorum consisting of Councilmember Cole, Councilmember Kercy, Councilmember Kate, Council President Pro Tem Emerald, and myself also present are from my left.

Committee consultant Steve Hadley, Chief Deputy.

Deputy you wouldn't like to be Deputy City Attorney Sharon Spivak.

Also assisting is Sarah Mojabi from my office and council administration committee liaison, Mary Ann Wallace.

Moving on to the committee record of actions for our March twenty-third, twenty sixteen meeting.

Seeing no interest in that.

Scheduling this special meeting and docketing this very important issue.

The city has made efforts over the past eight years or so to address the problem of mini dorms that threaten the character of our beautiful San Diego State neighborhoods.

But those efforts have not truly addressed the problem or limited the expansion of these dorms and the proliferation of them in the college area.

We do have in our possession now a long-awaited memo from the Development Services Department that addresses that says that even that we've tried.

But unfortunately, as you can see from this full house, we have failed.

And we need to take a different attack if we're going to save the neighborhood character near San Diego State, and if we're going to have appropriate housing for all of the students who come to SDSU to get a world class education.

So with that, I would like to turn the presentation over to Tim Taylor from my office, who is a career planner himself.

He has been working with Chris Pearson in our office, Mike Jenkins in our community, and of course, many of the people who you see here today who bring their concerns about the quality of life and the continued character of their neighborhoods.

With that, Tim, thank you for all of your hard work, your thoughtfulness, and I turn the floor over to you.

The balance of the speakers will be allotted two minutes per person.

So if you would plan your comments while Mr.

Taylor is speaking, that would be terrific.

Mr.

Taylor.

Good morning, Chair Leitner, committee members.

I'm Tim Taylor, Chief Policy Advisor for Council District 9.

I'm pleased to present a report on nuisance rental housing in the area around San Diego State University, as well as a draft ordinance offered as a potential solution.

Council President Pro Tem Emerald and the residents of the college area believe there is a severe problem and that new legislation is required.

Additional efforts are needed to prevent the college area from reaching a tipping point with regard to single family residential character.

This tipping point has already been experienced for certain blocks in the college area where the single family residential character may have been lost forever.

These developments and nuisance activities create a drain on city resources and impact the quality of life in the neighborhood, even for those students who desire to live in a normal residential community.

Additional efforts.

Students have been renting houses in the single-family neighborhoods near San Diego State University for as long as the school has been there.

They do this for convenience and lifestyle reasons.

The students are young, and for the most part, they have not been on their own previously.

They are very short-term residents, and they want to have a good time.

Unfortunately, they can create huge impacts on the quality of life of other residents of these neighborhoods.

The impacts include unruly behavior, loud parties late at night, accumulation of trash, poor property maintenance, and excessive demand for parking.

These problems require the resources of the city, including the police department, environmental services, and the code enforcement division.

They also impact the resources of the school.

What has changed over recent years is that the school has grown, creating new demand, and an industry has developed to profit from this demand.

Developers buy up existing single-family homes, which are typically two to four bedrooms, and expand them into homes as large as eight to ten bedrooms or more.

These supersized mini dorms are created by adding additional square footage, converting living rooms, garages, dens, patios, and even closets into bedrooms, and by subdividing existing bedrooms.

And the impacts of these extra large mini dorms are exponentially greater than that of student rentals in traditionally sized homes.

The proliferation and its impacts have been more thoroughly documented in the backup materials than I can go into here.

The data shows that 82% of supersized mini dorms have necessitated city involvement, and nearly half have involved the city in two or more ways.

And this is only the ones that have been identified by the community.

The ones shown in blue on this map have been added in the last three years.

Identified mini dorms comprise about 20 percent of all RS1s in the college area, RS1 zoned homes in the college area.

Three to four bedrooms is typical in the college area.

Nationally, only four percent of homes have five or more bedrooms.

The density of mini dorms close to campus is a major factor in the well-known party scene at San Diego State.

With lots of student rentals close together, there is a tendency for what might just be a house party of 50 or more to morph into a street party of 200 to 300 people.

Also, the police have reported that when one house party is shut down, the party goers just move down the street.

The police has have formal programs to address party and noise disturbances along with some informal activities.

Repeat violators may receive an administrative citation or CAP.

As you see in this chart, well over 90% of the capped houses in the Eastern Division are in the college area.

Fifty-four percent of capped houses have five plus bedrooms.

Streets with high concentrations of mini-derms have proportionally greater numbers of capped houses.

Mini dorms and particularly supersized ones have an extraordinary impact on the city's environmental services department.

Additional code enforcement officers are required and enforcement actions necessitated.

For example, in one month in January 2014, 147 trash containers were tagged and notices issued to 103 property owners and tenants.