City of Mountain View  
Agenda  
Rental Housing Committee  
Council Chambers and Video Conference, 500 Castro St.,  
Mountain View, CA 94041  
Thursday, November 20, 2025  
6:00 PM  
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This meeting is being conducted with a virtual component. Anyone wishing to address the Committee virtually may  
Webinar ID: 937 7306 8363. When the Chair announces the item on which you wish to speak, click the “raise hand”  
feature in Zoom or dial *9 on your phone. When the Chair calls your name to provide public comment, if you are  
participating via phone, please press *6 to unmute yourself.  
1. CALL TO ORDER  
2. ROLL CALL  
Chair Kevin Ma, Vice-Chair Robert Cox, Committee Members Alexander Brown, Edie Keating, Emily Staats  
Hislop, and Alternate Mark Balch.  
3. CONSENT CALENDAR  
These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the Rental Housing Committee wishes  
to remove an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of ordinances and resolutions will be waived  
unless a Committee Member requests otherwise.  
3.1  
3.2  
Recommendation:  
Approve the Rental Housing Committee meeting minutes. Copies of the minutes for  
the above noted meeting have been delivered to Committee Members and copies are  
available online.  
Attachments:  
Recommendation:  
Receive an overview of Financial Expenditures for Quarter 1 of Fiscal Year 2025-26, for  
the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act (Attachment 1) and the Mobile Home  
Rent Stabilization Ordinance (Attachment 2).  
Attachments:  
3.3  
Recommendation:  
Receive an overview of the Rent Stabilization Division Activity Report for Quarter 1 of  
Fiscal Year 2025-26.  
Attachments:  
4. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC  
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the Committee on any matter not  
on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for one three-minute period during this  
section. State law prohibits the Committee from acting on non-agenda items.  
5. APPEAL HEARINGS  
5.1  
Recommendation:  
To consider the Tentative Appeal Decision and either accept the Tentative Appeal  
Decision or modify the Tentative Appeal Decision with instructions to staff citing  
appropriate evidence in the Hearing Record to support the changes.  
Attachments:  
6. NEW BUSINESS  
6.1  
Recommendation:  
Adopt the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act (CSFRA) and Mobile Home Rent  
Stabilization Ordinance (MHRSO) regulations, which provide protections against  
tenant retaliation and harassment, by amending the existing CSFRA and MHRSO  
Regulations, Chapter 2 - Definitions, and incorporating new regulations, specifically  
CSFRA Regulations, Chapter 14, and MHRSO Regulations, Chapter 13, Anti-Retaliation  
and Anti-Harassment.  
Attachments:  
7. COMMITTEE/STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, REQUESTS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS  
No action will be taken on any questions raised by the Committee at this time.  
7.1  
7.2  
8. ADJOURNMENT  
Email comments to RHC@mountainview.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the meeting date. Emails will be received directly by the Rental Housing Committee.  
Please identify the Agenda item number in the subject line of your email. Requests to show an audio or video presentation during a Committee  
meeting should be directed to mvrent@mountainview.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the meeting date.  
Anyone wishing to address the Committee in person must complete a speaker card indicating the name you would like to be called by when it is  
your turn to speak and the item number on which you wish to speak. Please complete one speaker card for each item on which you wish to speak.  
Virtual and in-person speakers will be called in order as determined by the Chair.  
Pursuant to Regulation Chapter 3, an individual speaker shall have up to 3 minutes to address the Committee. For any agenda item or for Oral  
Communications on nonagenda items, if there appears to be a large number of speakers, the Chair may reduce speaking time to no less than 2  
minutes per speaker unless there is an objection from the Committee by majority vote.  
If requested in advance of the public input portion of the agenda item to the Committee, a speaker who represents five or more members of the  
public in attendance may have up to 10 minutes to address the Committee, if the Chair determines that such extension will reduce the total number  
of speakers who planned to speak.  
The presiding officer may remove or cause the removal of any individual(s) for disrupting a meeting in accordance with California Government Code  
section 54957.95, as may be amended from time to time. In accordance with California Government Code section 54957.9, as may be amended from  
time to time, the Committee may order a meeting room cleared and continue in session in the event a meeting is willfully interrupted by a group or  
groups of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of the meeting impossible, and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who  
are disrupting the meeting.  
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.3(b)(1), at least twice the allotted speaking time will be provided to a member of the public who  
utilizes a translator.