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Owners of Troubled Capistrano Terrace (Orange County CA) Mobile Home Park File Bankruptcy
July 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By Jonathan Volzke The owners of Capistrano Terrace Mobile Home Park in San Juan Capistrano have filed bankruptcy, the latest twist in the saga of the 60-year-old park where residents already faced the prospect of losing their homes. In a news release issued Friday, owners of the park, Capistrano Terraces Ltd., said they were forced […]
Huntington Beach CA Mobile Home Park – Council strikes down mobile home park’s subdivision plan
June 12, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
A proposal that would have allowed a mobile home park at Huntington Street and Atlanta Avenue to convert from rentals to for-sale units was denied this week by the Huntington Beach City Council. With a 6-1 vote, the council upheld Monday a Planning Commission recommendation to stop the park from subdividing the land. Councilman Devin […]
Capitola CA Mobile Home Park – Council Approves Sale of Castle Mobile Estates
June 11, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Written by Daniel Wootan At Thursday’s meeting, the Capitola City Council approved the sale of Castle Mobile Estates to Millenium Housing for $8.25 million from owner Abraham Keh. Millenium is a nonprofit organization that offers affordable housing to people throughout California by purchasing and rejuvenating mobile home parks and apartment buildings. It owns 17 parks […]
California Mobile Home Park Conversion Bill to watch this week
May 31, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
SB 444 (Evans) – Allow Counties to Stop Mobilehome Park Subdivisions Based on Resident Input
Mobile Home Park Owner Loses Appeal – COLONY COVE PROPERTIES, LLC V. CITY OF CARSON
March 29, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Ninth Circuit affirms lower court ruling. COLONY COVE PROPERTIES, LLC v CITY OF CARSON
Santa Rosa, CA – Proposed Mobile Home Park Condo Conversion
March 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By BRETT WILKISON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Sonoma County government’s latest stance on disputed condo-style conversions of mobile home parks is expected to come today in a Planning Commission vote. For the second time, commissioners will take up a plan to subdivide the 191-unit Sequoia Gardens Mobile Home Park off Fulton Road, a county-controlled area within […]
Monning bill lets cities recover costs of mobile home suits
February 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
By JASON HOPPIN – Santa Cruz Sentinel Assemblyman Bill Monning, D-Carmel, introduced a bill Wednesday that he hopes shifts the balance in frequent and often long-running disputes between mobile home park owners and communities seeking to protect residents from eviction and rent hikes. The bill, AB 579, allows governments that prevail in court to recover […]
Goleta California – Mobile Home Park Owner Hires Ted Olson
February 17, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Ted Olson, former solicitor general under President George W. Bush and certified legal heavyweight, has been hired by landlord Daniel Guggenheim, owner of Rancho Mobile Home Park, to take his anti–rent-control case against the City of Goleta to the U.S. Supreme Court. Guggenheim, who contends Goleta’s mobile-home-park rent-control ordinance constitutes an illegal confiscation of private […]
Judge backs mobile home park conversion – Chino CA
February 7, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
Chino, CA – The city is considering its next step after a judge granted a petition for the Lamplighter Mobilehome Park to convert its rental units into ownership lots. Read the full story here.
Guggenheim: The Regulatory Takings Case That Won’t Die
February 4, 2011 by parkguy1 · Leave a Comment
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 BY Rick Rayl… We thought it was over in 2009 when the Ninth Circuit held that the City of Goleta’s rent control ordinance constituted a taking. We thought it was over in late 2010 when an en banc Ninth Circuit panel ruled the other way, holding that the property owner failed to establish the “investment-backed expectations” necessary […]
