The process here was to present it to the city council to approve the sale.

It seems that zoning and COs have some gray areas and I've read that in some cities people are constructing new apartment complexes but calling them extended stays in order to get them past City council.

The icing on the cake is continuing to support well-needed smaller, independently owned resorts and towns over the soul-sucking corporate behemoths of Ikon and Epic, which a terrible financial deal anyway next to the regional ski councils and the amazing upstart IndySkiPass.com anyway. 

I don't know the whole story of course but this is one less rental unit on the market in seattle most likely;   there is no way that house will rent for an amount that would cover the mortgage at the given asking price,  so it will probably sell to an owner occ.In seattle over the last 3-5 years when most of these new ordinance passed what has been going on is a couple of our council members who have very active renter / advocacy organizations backing them have been creating very one sided rule changes.   

Downtown SF has gotten worse to the point homeless everywhere, tents, drug usage, SF city council and police doing nothing or can't do anything, shoplifting, etc.

https://caanet.org/inglewood-city-council-imposes-temporary-rent-cap-just-cause-policies/be careful and fight rent controlhttps://www.globest.com/2019/03/25/will-rent-control-stall-inglewood-investment/?

As it stands right now, they refuse to escalate the matter to the city council since the neighbors both already said no to anyone parking in the alley.

James, the city council voted it in, but the mayor hasn't signed it yet.

Seattle leads the way City Council President M.

So far I have an accountant (myself) and legal council in the form of my partner who is a lawyer in the area.