The Beverly Hills City Council approved regulations for its rental registry on Tuesday as it continues to piece together components of a revamped rent stabilization ordinance.

The council’s action requires landlords to list the rent they’re charging for each of their rental units, and specifies the appeals process if a resident objects to the rent amount listed by the landlord. It also specifies other information that landlords must provide as part of the registration process, such as the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in each unit.

The rental registry had been a contentious issue because of privacy concerns. But a city staff report states that landlords are not obligated to collect certain information, and state law requires that personal information about the tenants is not disclosable to the public.

Mayor Lili Bosse said there will likely be an update at next month’s City Council meeting about the rent stabilization ordinance, and on plans to hire a consultant to weigh in on unresolved issues such as the permissible annual rent increase.

Tenants favor the 3 percent annual increase currently in effect as part of a set of urgency measures the council approved earlier this year. Tenants have complained of being displaced because of excessively high rent increases, and because of no-cause evictions – in which tenants receive 60-day eviction notices. Landlords have disputed that displacement of renters was a problem widespread enough to necessitate an emergency ordinance.

Before the urgency measures were passed, Beverly Hills landlords were allowed to raise their rents 10 percent each year. Citing expenses of maintaining their buildings, landlords have asked the City Council over the past several months to allow them a higher yearly increase than the temporary 3 percent in place.

Tenants and landlords have participated in a series of mediation sessions, but consensus about what the long term allowable annual rent increase should be remained elusive. Council discussed the idea of bringing in a consultant to help make the determination.

Beverly Hills City Manager Mahdi Aluzri said city staff is evaluating the “level of expertise” and the “scope of services” that the council wants in an expert consultant.