20.180.010

A. This chapter is enacted to establish requirements and procedures for the control and approval of the conversion of mobilehome parks to community mobilehome park, mobilehome park condominium, and non-mobilehome park uses. By their nature, mobilehome park conversion projects differ specifically from other types of projects. The unique status of such projects tends to magnify the effects associated with higher urban densities to the point where they may lead to conditions of mismanagement, neglect, and blight that impact upon the public health, safety, welfare, and economic prosperity of the City of San José. Such projects may conflict with the policies of the City of San José to provide a variety of individual choices of tenure, type, price, and location of housing and to maintain the supply of mobilehome housing for low and moderate income persons and families. To ensure that such problems are avoided in both short- and long-term, it is the express intent of the council of the City of San José to treat mobilehome park conversion projects differently from other projects, and to establish rules and standards regulating such projects in the City of San José. B. This chapter is enacted to ensure that approval of proposed conversions is consistent with policies and objectives of the City of San José, particularly the following: 1. To make adequate provision for the housing needs of all economic segments of the community; 2. To facilitate resident ownership of mobilehome parks, while recognizing the need for maintaining an adequate inventory of rental space within mobilehome parks; 3. To provide a reasonable balance between mobilehomes and other types of housing; 4. To inform prospective conversion purchasers regarding the physical conditions of the structures and land offered for purchase; 5. To reduce and avoid the displacement of long-term residents, particularly senior citizens, the handicapped, those who are of low income, and families with school-age children, who may be required to move from the community due to a shortage of replacement mobilehome housing. (Ord. 26248.)