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Two new mobile home park conversion decisions just released. Colony Cove Properties v. City of Carson and Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates v. City of Los Angeles
September 1, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
There are two new mobile home park conversion opinions that came out of the Los Angeles County appellate court yesterday. Both decisions, in my opinion, are bad for mobile home park owners, despite the fact that one, Colony Cove Properties v. City of Carson, was technically a victory.
In Colony Cove Properties v. City of Carson, the appellate court affirmed the lower courts issuance of a writ of mandate which in essence stated that the City, when dealing with a mobile home park subdivision, must act in a strictly ministerial capacity, ruling further that the City of Carson had overstepped its authority in imposing more stringent requirements than that of the State when dealing with park conversions / subdivisions. The bad news….the appellate court went out of it’s way to disagree about City’s not having some discretion when reviewing tenant surveys taken as part of the subdivision application process. Read opinion here.
In Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates v. City of Los Angeles, the appellate court basically made the difficult job of a mobile home park conversion, extremely difficult if the mobile home park is located within a “coastal zone. Read opinion here.
