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California Coastal Commission causing problems for Laguna Beach mobile home park owner trying to subdivide
August 6, 2010 by parkguy1 · 3 Comments
The owners of the Laguna Terrace Mobile Home Park on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the commission in Orange County Superior Court. The suit asks the court to determine if the commission can exert jurisdiction over the park’s conversion to resident ownership. On July 20, the council approved subdividing the 20-acre ocean-view park developed in [...]
Washington Mobile Home Park Tenants Win Class Action
August 5, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The class action lawsuit settlement requires mobile-home park owners to drop the conversion language from its leases and stop using contracts that allowed them to automatically convert an annual lease to a month-to-month lease. The settlement does not provide reimbursements for class members, but it does allow the tenants to pursue back rent. Read more [...]
As if San Luis Obispo County Mobile Home Park Owners were not regulated enough!
August 5, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors has directed planning staff to begin developing a mobile-home park overlay zone that would contain incentives for park owners to protect and preserve the county’s largest stock of affordable housing — mobile-home parks. Read More here.
Courts rule for Capitola in mobile home park suit; Property owner must partially refund rent after services not kept up
July 27, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
An owner of a rent controlled mobile home park (like that’s not bad enough), now faces having to partially refund tenants rents. Read the article hear.
Guggenheim v. City of Goleta
July 19, 2010 by parkguy1 · 3 Comments
As a follow up to my earlier Guggenheim v. City of Goleta post, the decision now being heard En Banc was argued and submitted on June 22, 2010. This decision is clearly of major importance to all rent control park Owners. The brief submitted to the court by the City of Goleta, arguing to overturn [...]
All-Nude Mobile Home Park still has its followers (and peeping toms)
July 17, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
OK, this is funny / interesting. There’s a very unusual mobile home / RV park near Sacramento. It’s a nudist colony! Located near Wilton, CA, this very large all-nude encampment has hundreds of fans. And approximately 500 RV spaces, and about 50 manufactured homes. Several of the manufactured homes are for sale in the park, and [...]
Wilsonville, OR…Appellate court reverses decision about city’s mobile home park ordinance
March 26, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
In 2005 the city of Wilsonville enacted a more stringent mobile home park closure ordinance then the rest of the state of Oregon. A park owner sued the city over the ordinance and won, with the circuit court ruling that the ordinance is unconstitutional. Two days ago, the Oregon appellate court reversed that decision. Read article here. [...]
Guggenheim v. City of Goleta case will be reviewed en banc by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
March 16, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The major anti rent control ruling of Guggenheim v. City of Goleta may be reversed. The three-judge panel opinion shall not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth Circuit.” En banc review means that a panel of 11 judges will now review and decide the case.
American Canyon (Napa CA) moves to block trailer park conversion
March 15, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Another city tries to block the conversion of a trailer park with some BS self concocted protectionist ordinance. This time trying to prevent the conversion of a trailer park from a “senior 55+” facility to an all age park. It looks like the city was a day late and the park residents aren’t too pleased. [...]
Looks like the residents of “Marina Park” will get to stay a little longer
March 2, 2010 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
The city of Newport Beach cannot afford to move forward with plans to tear down a bay front Mobile Home Community it currently owns and build a city park. Read article here.
