SANTA PAULA : Ballot May Have 2 Mobile Home Items
The Santa Paula City Council on Monday night will consider placing the city’s existing mobile home rent control law on the November ballot alongside a stricter initiative that has already qualified.
Backers of the petition, which calls for the elimination of rent increases on spaces when a coach is sold, have reacted with alarm to the proposal.
City Administrator Arnold Dowdy, in a report to the council, said adding the city’s existing ordinance to the November ballot “would allow the citizens of Santa Paula a choice.”
Like the existing law, the proposed initiative limits annual rent increases in most cases to three-fourths of the year’s Consumer Price Index. But the initiative limits the type of maintenance projects for which park owners may charge their tenants.
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