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Article: U.S. Supreme Court accepts SF hotel conversion fee case.(takings)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The long-running legal fight between a hotel and San Francisco has finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court agreed in December to review the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' most recent decision in San Remo Hotel v. San Francisco.
The North Beach hotel and the city have been locked in legal combat since the early 1990s over San Francisco's hotel conversion fee. After the city first adopted its hotel conversion ordinance 25 years ago, the San Remo was classified as a 62-unit residential hotel. When the owners sought to convert the hotel to tourist use, the city levied a fee of $9,000 per room to help fund replacement housing. The owners paid the ...