COMPETING INITIATIVES PROPOSED LANDLORD, RENTERS GROUPS SEEKING PLACE ON BALLOT.Byline: Nicholas Nicholas, Russian grand duke Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolayevich) (nyĭkəlī` nyĭkəlī`əvĭch), 1856–1929, Russian grand duke and army officer; first cousin of Czar Alexander III and grandson of Czar Grudin Staff Writer GLENDALE Glendale. 1 City (1990 pop. 148,134), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich agricultural region irrigated by the Salt River project. Glendale has become one of the fastest-growing U.S. - Landlord and tenant groups have notified the city of plans to place dueling The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, due to an earlier quarrel. If death results, the crime is murder. It differs from an affray in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design. initiatives before Glendale voters: one backing rent control and the other barring it. Both sides say they will circulate cir·cu·late v. cir·cu·lat·ed, cir·cu·lat·ing, cir·cu·lates v.intr. 1. To move in or flow through a circle or circuit: blood circulating through the body. 2. petitions seeking the 15,000 signatures needed to put each question on a ballot, with the earliest possible election in April. ``One initiative is generated by one attorney and another generated by another attorney,'' said Herbert Molano, president of the Glendale Apartment Association. ``It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have basically attorney vs. attorney, kind of like Spy vs. Spy Spy vs. Spy is a wordless black and white comic strip that has been published in Mad magazine since 1961. It was created by Cuban Antonio Prohías, who fled to the United States in 1960 (just days before Fidel Castro took over the Cuban free press). .'' Property Owners for Property Rights Protection filed a notice with the city Tuesday Tuesday: see week. of plans to circulate a ``property rights protection measure'' in which the city could not ``limit, restrict, impose or mandate the price'' of real estate in Glendale. The rent control ban effort comes on the heels of an Oct. 1 notice by the Glendale Tenants Association, which proposes a measure to prevent rents from being raised more than 3 percent a year in Glendale. Landlord-tenant attorney Ken Carlson, who heads the Glendale Tenants Association and backs the tenant initiative, said Glendale rents are out of control and need to be regulated. ``People are getting $300 to $600 in rent increases per year,'' Carlson said. ``Something must be done.'' ``The free market has failed to solve the problem because urbanized areas are saturated saturated /sat·u·rat·ed/ (sach´ah-rat?ed) 1. denoting a chemical compound that has only single bonds and no double or triple bonds between atoms. 2. unable to hold in solution any more of a given substance. - there's no more space to build apartments to meet the demand,'' Carlson said. Opponents of rent control, however, contend that it would destroy landlords' incentives to properly maintain housing. ``The quality of life in Glendale will go down if rent control goes in,'' said Ron Yourra, vice president of the Glendale Apartment Association. ``It would be the beginning of the end.'' The Glendale Apartment Association opposes rent control but has not sided with the initiative to ban it. Trevor Grimm, attorney for Property Owners for Property Rights Protection, said Carlson's rent-control initiative is unreasonable and illegal. ``Carlson's initiative is nuts. If he gets on the ballot it will be challenged by any number of people or organizations,'' Grimm said, adding that current law protects commercial landlords from rent control. City Councilman Bob Yousefian agreed, and on Tuesday will try to block Carlson's initiative because ``it is very poorly written and, if passed, would end up costing the city millions in legal fees.'' But he went on to blame landlords for the current tensions, saying if they had been willing to make minor concessions years ago, they would not be facing the prospect of a rent-control initiative. ``They didn't want to get their hands dirty - now they're in it all the way to their neck,'' Yousefian said. Carlson said he would likely make changes in his initiative. Carlson, meanwhile, said Grimm's initiative is a ``dirty tactic'' meant to confuse con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. tenants. ``Their petition is probably designed to defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or advocates of rent control and trick them into signing the wrong petition,'' Carlson said. Yousefian said if both initiatives make the ballot and pass, Glendale would be faced with trying to enforce two contradictory laws. Petitions to get either initiative on the ballot will not be circulated until the city attorney reviews and summarizes the arguments, at which point the organizations will have 200 days to get 15,000 signatures. |
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