Chapter 9.76
MOBILEHOME PARK CONVERSION
Sections:
   9.76.010   Purpose and findings.
   9.76.020   Definitions.
   9.76.030   Application and relocation impact report.
   9.76.040   Hearing procedures.
   9.76.050   Acceptance of conditions required.
   9.76.060   Appeals.
   9.76.070   Relocation notice.
   9.76.080   Exceptions to requirement to provide relocation assistance.
   9.76.090   Expiration and extension of approval of conversion.
   9.76.100   Enforcement.
   9.76.110   Provisions to prevent eviction prior to determination of relocation assistance.
   9.76.120   Rent increase review petitions.
   9.76.130   Interpretation.
   9.76.140   Challenges to decisions.
9.76.010   Purpose and findings.
   The mobilehome owners who rent spaces for their homes in mobilehome parks make a considerable investment in purchasing, maintaining and improving their homes and in maintaining the rented space for their homes. If a park closes or is converted to a new use, the mobilehome owners may lose their homes and the investment in them due to the high cost and risk of injury involved in moving a mobilehome, the fact that improvements to a home may not be movable and the lack of vacant mobilehome spaces in parks within a reasonable distance from the closing park that will accept relocating homes. In recognition of the unique situation and vulnerability of mobilehome owners, the State Legislature adopted the Mobilehome Residency Law, Civil Code Section 798, et seq., which protects them from eviction except for specified and limited causes, and Government Code Sections 65863.7 and 66427.4, which authorize the city to require park owners who want to close a park or convert it to another use to provide reasonable relocation assistance as a condition of closing and converting a park.
   This chapter is adopted pursuant to Government Code Sections 65863.7 and 66427.4 and the city's police power to provide a procedure and standards for assessing the adverse impacts of a mobilehome park closure or conversion on the displaced mobilehome owners residing in the park that is being closed and to determine appropriate relocation assistance for those residents.
(Ord. 4696 § 1(part), 2001)
9.76.020   Definitions.
   (a)   "Comparable mobilehome"means a mobilehome that is similar in size, age, condition, number of bedrooms and amenities to a mobilehome that is being displaced by conversion of a mobilehome park.
   (b)   "Comparable mobilehome park"means a mobilehome park that is similar in condition, age, size and amenities to the park that is being closed and is located within a community similar to that in which the park that is being closed is located and has similar access to community amenities such as shopping, medical services, recreational facilities and transportation.
   (c)   "Comparable housing"means housing in an apartment complex or condominium that is similar in size, number of bedrooms and amenities to the mobilehome that is being displaced and is located in a community that has similar access to shopping, medical services, recreational facilities and transportation or a comparable mobilehome in a comparable mobilehome park.
   (d)   "Conversion"means the closure of a mobilehome park and the cessation of holding out spaces in the park for rental even if no new use is planned and conversion of a mobilehome park to another use.
   (e)   "Legal owner"means any person or entity having a legal interest in a mobilehome, such as a lender or mortgagor.
   (f)   "Mobilehome"shall have the meaning set forth in the Mobilehome Residency Law, Civil Code Section 798, et seq. as now in effect or subsequently amended and shall also mean vehicles designed or used for human habitation, including camping trailers, motorhomes, slide-in campers and travel trailers if they have been in the park being closed or converted and used as the occupant's primary residence, as established by nine months' continuous residency prior to the filing of a conversion application.
   (g)   "Mobilehome park"or "park"means an area of land where two or more mobilehome spaces are rented or held out for rent to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation.
   (h)   "Mobilehome resident"or "resident"means a registered owner of a mobilehome who resides in the mobilehome.
   (i)   "Park owner"means a person or entity that owns a mobilehome park or a person or entity authorized to act on behalf of the owner of a mobilehome park.
(Ord. 4696 § 1(part), 2001)
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