Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS. : CITIES : Fullerton Apartment Complex Is Sued Over Occupancy Limits
In a lawsuit that is among the first in California to charge that bedroom-occupancy limits discriminate against children, a family of four last week sued a Fullerton apartment complex.
The suit, filed in Orange County Superior Court, challenges Fullerton Island Village’s policy of one person per bedroom. It was filed by Robert Anderson and his family, the Orange County Fair Housing Council and the Fair Housing for Children Coalition Inc.
A spokesman for the Sacramento-based California Apartment Assn. said that bedroom-occupancy limits “absolutely do not discriminate. . . . The owner has a perfect right to establish the number of persons he will rent to in a given space so long as he applies it uniformly.”
But Anderson’s attorney, Walter Cochran-Bond, said such limits have “very severe exclusionary effects on families with children.”
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