MOBILE-HOME RENT ORDINANCE EXPIRES; MOORPARK COUNCIL DELAYS VOTE ON CONTROLLING SPACE COSTS.Byline: Gloria Gonzales / Daily News Staff Writer A 90-day urgency ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been that prevented mobile-home park owners from raising space rents expired ex·pire v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires v.intr. 1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired. 2. Thursday, despite residents' pleas for the council to extend the ban. The council also postponed voting on a new mobile-home park rent control law, saying more time was needed to craft a compromise. ``There was no way for us to legally extend the urgency ordinance,'' said council member Chris Evans Ev·ans , Herbert McLean 1882-1971. American anatomist who isolated four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1922). , who also worked with a committee that attempted to draft a new ordinance. ``It's very simple, an urgency ordinance can only be used if it affects the public peace, safety or health. We would be on shaky ground Shaky Ground was a TV sitcom which starred Matt Frewer as Bob Moody, a hapless, but supportive and caring father. Robin Riker played his wife and Jennifer Love Hewitt as his daughter. The show aired on FOX for the 1992-1993 season. if we pushed this.'' The Wednesday night decision was made after the park owners again threatened to sue the city if the ordinance was extended, Evans said, and just a few hours after angry residents picketed City Hall. The council voted for the urgency ordinance in April, after residents in Moorpark's largest mobile-home park, Villa del Arroyo, complained about rent hikes. Residents demanded a review of the city's existing law, which allows park owners to raise rents by 4 percent each year, or by the Consumer Price Index, depending on which is higher. The law also allowed owners to raise rents each time a new tenant occupied a space. Mobile-home residents may own the structure they live in, but they pay rent for space in parks. In eastern Ventura County, those rents are from about $200 to $650, depending on the size of the space and amenities provided by the park. Evans added that given the contentiousness con·ten·tious adj. 1. Given to contention; quarrelsome. See Synonyms at argumentative, belligerent. 2. Involving or likely to cause contention; controversial: of the issue, he would try to craft a compromise through working with city officials and park managers, and would likely not work further with a committee of residents. Since the rent hike moratorium A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it may be authorized or imposed by operation of law. in April, a committee of residents, city officials and park managers have met to discuss a new ordinance. ``The committee has done a great job thus far,'' Evans said Thursday. ``But they are also their own worst enemy because there are such drastic differences among the members, and some of them have no desire to reach middle ground. ``But I credit the residents with keeping the pressure on and coming forward to ask for some sort of relief.'' Not all residents are happy with the council decision, which will allow owners to raise rents between now and the time any new ordinance is completed and voted on. ``Even the old ordinance says part of its purpose is to protect mobile-home owners,'' said Alice Rowan rowan ash tree which guards against fairies and witches. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 344] See : Protection , a resident of Vista del Arroyo and a committee member. ``And the city has been negligent negligent adj., adv. careless in not fulfilling responsibility. (See: negligence) in protecting us. And now with this decision to dump the committee, we're out of the picture. We are now looking at taking legal action against the city.'' |
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