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)