City to Hold Hearing on Mobile Home Fees
A public hearing will be held today on a proposal by the city of Ventura to charge mobile home owners and mobile home park owners a monthly fee to help pay for a revised and expanded rent-control ordinance.
City staff members recommend that the City Council set a monthly fee of $2.28 per mobile home space. The fee would be shared by park owners and mobile home owners, who would each pay $1.14 a month.
The fee is needed to help offset the cost of administering the new city ordinance, estimated at more than $110,000 a year, officials say. The fee would raise about $50,000, which would pay for legal and financial services.
The City Council adopted the rent-control ordinance in late January. The new law changed and added various sections to the former rent-control plan and will increase administrative work for the city attorney’s office and city financial analysts, officials said.
The public hearing will be held during tonight’s council meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at City Hall.
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