The Rules and Open Government Committee met on January 21, 2026, at 2:00 PM to review upcoming City Council agendas, approve routine consent items, and discuss two memos: one proposing a development fee framework and another outlining the process for the budget forecast and priority study session. The committee voted unanimously on all items, including a modification to the January 27 council agenda regarding the timing of the mobile home rent ordinance discussion.
All right, it's 2 o'clock, so we will call today's meeting of the Rules and Open Government Committee to order and start with roll call. Candelas. Here. Duan. Here. Foley. Kamei. She's here. And Cohen. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. We will start with the review of next week's agenda for the January 27th City Council meeting. There is an ad sheet with one item on it. We have a 9.30 closed session and a 1.30 regular session. Consent starts on page 5, continues on pages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and ends on 11. In section 3, we have our annual report on city services. In section 8, we have SB79 implementation, downtown residential incentive program expansion for commercial to residential conversion, multifamily housing incentive program update or extension. We have the inclusionary housing ordinance update, soft story seismic retrofit pilot program, and proposed amendment to the mobile home rent ordinance. No land use, and we will start with public comment. Blair? Hi, everyone. Blair Beekman. I've almost, after like five months now, I almost kept my storage locker all cleaned up, and I moved from a larger space to a smaller space. I'll travel back down to San Diego this February, and I'm going to do some whale watching in Hawaii and Maui, so I'll be looking forward to that. Hearing their sounds underwater is quite a thing to hear in one's life. I wanted to speak to the item, eight items. First around, slow, slow, slow, almost there. Senate Bill 79 issues. In being from San Diego these days, they are working diligently on new proposals of housing development in large neighborhood areas. One is in their state college area near, that's more inland, San Diego, and one is near, more near the coast. They're large neighborhoods. They're trying to find new ways to implement Senate Bill 79. They're going to be using different ways to understand it and how it can be applicable and what can work in one place may not fit in the other place and vice versa. They're going through quite an undertaking in this future housing that I think you can probably learn some good lessons from that I thought it would be nice to mention at this time for reference for yourselves in future buildings. They do have construction costs that are way lower than here. Thank you, Barry. Back to the committee. okay we'll start with council member duan