Alternative A is the only way to go to keep the City of Menlo Park safe from lawsuit after lawsuit based on the proposals in Alternative B being in conflict with Costa Hawkins AND way too many ‘loose ends’ in Alternative B that attorneys will have a field day with.
Also, Alternative B does not help the people it is supposed to help - specifically, tenants will have to hire their own attorneys to wok through the issues. NO enforcement through the city!
Whereas, Alternative A is enforced on an administrative level in the cities through Commissions already set up.

The rental relocation assistance is confiscatory in nature and will only lead to egregious examples of the law of unintended consequence coming into play.
For example: take an apartment or a granny unit renting for $2000 per month for simplicity of calculation. Using the data in the article a 10% or $200 per month rent increase could trigger 4 months of "relocation assistance" or $8000 or much more depending on what "markett rate" is. This would take at a minimum 40 months of the increased rental rate to recover the "assistance" payout.
If ever there was a better motivation for a property owner to not adequately maintain a rental unit or simply take it off the market, imposing such poorly thought out penalties would certainly rank the MP at the top of the class for acting without first thinking.

Rent control has not worked out well in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere. Requiring owners to subsidize tenants (and their moving expenses) will result in what's happening now: Small owners will keep their units off of the market rather than having the government set their rates. Tenants will stay in their rent-controlled units for the long term. Both of these actions result in less available housing, which drives up demand, which drives up rent.

With rent control and tenant relocation package, "Menlo Park" will become "TRASH PARK". The city of Menlo Park has no shame to increase property tax but wants to punish landlords. The Menlo park city should build affordable housing by charging tax to Hightech companies like Facebook etc. who are the cause of this problem. There are many nice landlords out there who are charging very low rents but the property maintenance costs are increasing as minimum wage, material costs are also increasing. How will the landlords be able to maintain the properties? There should not be any tenants relocation package at least up to 4 units properties and there should not be any rent control for the properties where the rent is lower than the amount that section 8 allows. In the case of properties with low rents and old tenants, the landlord will not be able to maintain the properties with lower rent and that can destroy the whole neighborhood. Property price will go down. Rent control in San Francisco increased the rents for all new tenants and also increase the homeless population and became "SHIT-HOLE" and with this tenant relocation and rent control proposal, "Menlo Park" will become "SHIT-PARK".