Mobile home owners make considerable investments in purchasing, maintaining and improving their mobile homes, but must rent a space for the home in a mobile home park and cannot easily move the mobile home due to the shortage of mobile home spaces and the high cost and risk of damage involved in moving a mobile home. In recognition of the unique situation and vulnerability of mobile home owners created by these facts, the State Mobile Home Residency Law, Cal. Civil Code §§ 798 et seq. and Cal. Gov't Code §§ 65863.7 and 66427.4, limit the grounds on which mobile home owners may be evicted from a mobile home park, protect their right to sell their mobile homes in place in a mobile home park and authorize local jurisdictions to impose reasonable measures to mitigate the adverse impacts on displaced mobile home owners when a mobile home park closes or converts to another use. Pursuant to these state laws, this chapter provides a procedure and standards for reviewing applications for change of use and closure of mobile home parks, determining reasonable mitigation measures and protecting residents from tactics such as intimidation and excessive rent increases, designed to pressure mobile home owners to relocate without receiving assistance pursuant to this chapter. Without such assistance, mobile home owners may lose the investment in their homes, which may be their only asset, and may not be able to relocate to decent, affordable housing.
(`83 Code, § 15.40.010) (Ord. 92-13 § 1 (part), 1992; Ord. 92-13U § 1 (part), 1992)