LA County Supervisors Want to Keep It Chill Indoors, Pass Ordinance Setting 82-Degree Max for Rental Units

Go touch that dial: County passes AC ordinance

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a series of changes to keep things cooler for residents in rental units of the unincorporated areas after nearly four hours of discussion Tuesday.  The idea was to use the county’s health and safety code to implement a phased approach at a single maximum indoor temperature threshold, requiring all landlords to make sure all habitable rooms can be cooled to 82 degrees. There also were “displacement pr…

Rental units in unincorporated L.A. County must stay cool under new law

Supervisors said Tuesday that the law was necessary to protect vulnerable tenants as climate change fueled an increase in heat-related deaths across the nation.

LA County Supervisors want to keep it chill indoors, pass ordinance setting 82-degree max for rental units

A new ordinance requires the temperature inside rental units in unincorporated Los Angeles County to never go above 82 degrees Fahrenheit, a measure intending to ward off health impacts caused by extreme heat. The county ordinance, developed over nearly three years, received approval by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, Aug. 5 and will come back for a final vote Aug. 12. The supervisors agreed to carve out an amendme…

LA County Supervisors pass ordinance setting 82-degree max for inside rental units

Too much heat? LA County Supervisors passed an ordinance that sets a maximum temperature in rental units in county areas.

82 Degrees Max! New LACo Ordinance Mandates Regulated Indoor Temperatures

All rental housing units in unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County will soon be required to have a maximum indoor temperature of 82 degrees under an ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. “The proposed ordinance will enhance and strengthen the health and safety of occupants residing in rental housing units by ensuring indoor temperatures do not reach levels that are dangerous to health,” according to a letter sent to the boa…

County OKs ordinance on rental units temps

LOS ANGELES — All rental housing units in unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County will soon be required to have a maximum indoor temperature of 82 degrees under an ordinance approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.