OXNARD : New Farm Worker Housing OKd
Offering farm worker families hope of escape from a run-down trailer camp, the Oxnard City Council agreed Tuesday to move forward with plans to help relocate members of the cramped community to a new mobile home park on the city’s northeast side.
Council members unanimously voted to pursue acquisition of a 20-acre patch of farmland for a replacement park within the Northeast Community, a sprawling commercial and residential development proposed for a site east of Oxnard Boulevard.
“We’re pleased,” said Eileen McCarthy, an attorney representing tenants of the Oxnard Mobilehome Lodge, which has a history of health and safety code violations. “We hope this is the first in a series of steps that have to be taken to make this park a reality within the next year or two.”
City officials tentatively agreed last year to move the 140-unit trailer camp to a field near the south Oxnard neighborhood of Tierra Vista but reversed that decision after neighbors complained.
As a result, the City Council established an 11-member committee late last year to search for alternative sites.
The estimated price tag for the new mobile home park is $11 million.
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