PROPOSED SANTA MONICA HOTEL ORDINANCE WOULD COST THE CITY MILLIONS AND BE DUPLICATIVE OF EXISTING LAWS, NEW REPORT FINDS
SANTA MONICA, CA. – A proposed hotel ordinance would cost the City of Santa Monica millions of dollars and would be duplicative of existing state law and hotel safety policies, according to a new impact analysis released by Capitol Matrix Consulting (CMC). The report, commissioned by the Hotel Association of Los Angeles (HALA), explored the impacts of an upcoming City ordinance proposal -- modeled after Long Beach’s flawed Measure WW – which would attempt to impose onerous and unnecessary requirements, training that is already required and unconventional housekeeper workload rules on