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ATTY/ORD.0011/CC ORD TENANT PROTECTION ORDINANCE REV: 10-07-25 LF Page 5 of 23 F. “Property.” All rental units, and the common areas serving those rental units, on a parcel or lot or contiguous parcel or contiguous lots under common ownership. G. “Rent.” The consideration, including any bonus, benefit, or gratuity demanded or received by a landlord or for the benefit of a landlord in connection with the use or occupancy of a rental unit. H. “Rental unit.” A habitable structure offered for rent and used as a place of permanent or customary and usual abode of a residential household. Rental units include a building, a group of buildings or a portion of a building used and/or designed as dwellings. A rental unit for purposes of this Chapter shall not include: 1. Transient and tourist hotel occupancy as defined in Civil Code Section 1940(b). 2. Housing accommodations in a nonprofit hospital, religious facility, extended care facility, licensed residential care facility for the elderly, as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 1569.2, or an adult residential facility, as defined in Chapter 6 of Division 6 of Title 22 of the Manual of Policies and Procedures published by the State Department of Social Services. 3. Dormitories owned and operated by an institution of higher education or a kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, school. 4. Housing accommodations in which the tenant shares bathroom or kitchen facilities with the owner who maintains their primary residence at the rental unit. 5. Single-family owner-occupied residences, including both of the following: a. A residence in which the owner-occupant rents or leases no more than two units or bedrooms, including, but not limited to, an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit. b. A mobilehome. 6. A property containing two separate dwelling units within a single structure in which the owner occupied one of the units as the owner’s primary residence at the beginning of the tenancy, so long as the owner continues in occupancy, and neither unit is an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit.