Mobility to Cost
In a first for the Southland, Monrovia’s City Council has adopted an ordinance requiring owners of mobile home parks who convert the parks to other uses to pay displaced tenants up to $5,000 each, or buy their homes.
Sunnyvale and San Jose in Northern California have adopted similar ordinances in the past three years, according to City Atty. Richard Morillo. Monrovia has three mobile home parks.
The ordinance has drawn fire from the Western Mobilehome Assn., a trade group of mobile home park owners that singled out the provision requiring park owners to buy the unit of relocation is not viable.
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