Mobile Home Rent Stabilization and Senior Park Conversion Protections
Santa Maria
Summary
Longtime advocate Gary Hall pressed the council again to adopt mobile home rent stabilization and an ordinance preventing conversion of senior mobile home parks, noting a 2022 council motion that has produced no action.
At a glance
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Last discussed Sep 1, 2026.
Impact analysis
Rent stabilization could cap rent increases for mobile home residents, many of them seniors on fixed incomes.
Mobile home residents, particularly seniors in parks at risk of conversion.
Park owners would face regulated rents under a mandatory stabilization program.
Mentions & discussions (9)
City Council Meeting
New zoning rules create a Senior Mobile Home Park Overlay District, adding protections and definitions for senior mobile home communities on the city's zoning map.
City Council Meeting
The council moved to lock in senior-only status for the city's five mobile home parks, protecting over 1,100 affordable homes for residents 55 and older from conversion to all-ages parks. Residents packed the chamber to support it; a park owners' representative opposed, citing property rights.
City Council Meeting
Seniors from La Maria Mobile Home Park urged the council to keep senior parks senior-only, warning that conversion to all-age parks would destroy their affordability and peace. The overlay ordinance comes back for a public hearing August 4.
City Council Meeting
Gary Hall again asked the council to replace the 2020 model lease with a mandatory rent stabilization program. A senior mobile home park zoning overlay ordinance goes to the Planning Commission July 1.
City Council Meeting
Mobile home residents are still waiting. Nearly four years after the council promised to fix the 2020 model lease, a senior park zoning overlay ordinance is finally headed to a July planning commission study session.
City Council Meeting
Gary Hall again pressed the council to replace the 2020 model lease with a mandatory rent stabilization program and to expedite the senior mobile home park zoning overlay ordinance.
City Council Meeting
A mobile home resident advocate reminded the council it passed a motion in 2022 to improve or replace the 2020 model lease and still hasn't acted, and that a senior park conversion-prevention ordinance remains in internal review.
City Council Meeting
Longtime advocate Gary Hall pressed the council again to adopt mobile home rent stabilization and an ordinance preventing conversion of senior mobile home parks, noting a 2022 council motion that has produced no action.
City Council Meeting
Longtime advocate Gary Hall pressed the council again to replace the ineffective 2020 model lease with a rent stabilization program and adopt a senior park conversion ordinance, three and a half years after a council motion promised action.
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