ALAMEDA — Tenants at an condominium on Bay Farm Island are facing a 133 percent rent increase, a jump that the city’s rent committee found too high and that now will be reviewed by the City Council.

But the proposed increase — from $1,500 to $3,500 in the monthly rent at 3315 Willis Lane — may end up standing because decisions over rent increases at that type of property by both the rent committee and the council are non-binding under the city’s rent ordinance.

The council will consider the case on Tuesday.

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The dispute is among the first cases from the Rent Review Advisory Commitee that the council has been asked to review since the council adopted a rent stabilization ordinance in March 2016.

The ordinance, which came after weeks of sometimes raucous debate, was adopted as a way to offer tenants protections in the face of the region’s high housing and cost of living costs.

The ordinance does not limit the amount that a landlord can raise rent. But it does require a landlord to notify the city’s rent committee, which mediates disputes between tenants and property owners, if the rent will increase more than 5 percent.

It also requires landlords to provide money to help with a tenant’s moving expenses under some evictions.

The three-bedroom condominium on Bay Farm Island is owned by the Pereira Survivor’s Trust under the Raymond W. and Mildred L. Pereria Living Trust and operated by trustee Alan Statman.

On Nov. 1, Statman notified the city that a rental increase of $2,000 was planned, which prompted tenants Mikk Teeveer and Ingrit Suurhallik to respond, saying they thought a $750 rent increase was reasonable if they were provided with a two-year lease.

Statman told the committee when it considered the case Dec. 4 that as the trustee he has a duty to ensure that the property is productive, while Teeveer took issue with the amount of the increase and said his family needed time to absorb the increase, according to the committee’s minutes.

It was not immediately available how long Teeveer and Suurhallik have lived with their child at the property.

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The committee voted 4-1 that the rent increase should be $750. A few days later Statman told the city that although he did not agree with the decision, he would not appeal it since the decision was non-binding.

The original rent increase of $2,000 has now been implemented, city officials said.

On Dec. 11, the tenants asked the City Council to review the committees’s decision, which will happen Tuesday.

Under the city’s rent ordinance, however, the council’s actions are limited to just reviewing the committee’s determination and, if it finds it’s appropriate, authorizing Mayor Trish Spencer to send a letter to the owners with another non-binding recommendation regarding the increase, according to Edwin Gato, the city’s acting finance director.

The council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda.