San Jose Ca.Gov
File #: ROGC 25-094    Version: 1
Type: Rules Committee Reviews, Recommendations and Approvals Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/6/2025 In control: City Clerk's Office
On agenda: 3/12/2025 Final action:
Title: Addressing Vanlording and Ensuring Safe, Regulated Housing in Public Right-Of-Way: A Proposal for Increased Enforcement in San José. (Mayor, Doan, Mulcahy, and Cohen)
Attachments: 1. Memorandum from Mayor, Doan, Mulcahy, and Cohen

...Title

Addressing Vanlording and Ensuring Safe, Regulated Housing in Public Right-Of-Way: A Proposal for Increased Enforcement in San José. (Mayor, Doan, Mulcahy, and Cohen)

...Recommendations

1.  Direct the City Manager, in collaboration with the City Attorney and other relevant departments, to report back to the City Council within 90 days with an analysis and recommendations for a proposed City ordinance to curtail the leasing, renting, let out, or otherwise loan of recreational vehicles in the public right of way in exchange for money, goods, or services. Include the following items within the scope of work: 

                     a.  Any relevant existing ordinances or codes that may be enforced.

                     b.  The feasibility of adopting new ordinances that place restrictions on the sale, trade, and/or auctioning of recreational vehicles in the public right of way. 

                     c.  Explore the prevention of the trade or sale of recreational vehicles between tow yards, salvage yards and vanlords.

                     d.  Research similar ordinances in other municipalities and gather relevant data on effectiveness in order to produce a staff recommendation.

                     e.  Explore enforcement mechanisms that can be potentially executed by Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, Parking Control Officers, or any other relevant departments.