VOTE SET ON RENT CONTROL; MOBILE-HOME DECISION TO CAP MONTHS OF DEBATE.Byline: Gloria Gonzales / Daily News Staff Writer After months of deliberations and contentious meetings with residents, owners and city officials, the City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on a rent control 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 for mobile-home parks. The vote comes a day before the expiration EXPIRATION. Cessation; end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute. 2. In general, the expiration of a contract puts an end to all the engagements of the parties, except to those which arise from the non- fulfillment of obligations created of a 90-day 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. on rent increases, imposed after residents of the Vista del Arroyo Mobile Home Park complained about rate hikes. Mobile-home residents may own the home they live in, and the concrete foundation the home rests on, but they must rent space in mobile-home parks. In eastern Ventura County, those rents range from about $200 to $650, depending on the size of the space and the amenities provided by the park. At Vista del Arroyo, 240 residents pay $397 to $541 a month. Currently, the city ordinance allows park owners to raise rents by 4 percent each year, or by the Consumer Price Index, whichever is higher. The city law also allows owners to raise rents on new tenants on the anniversary of the former tenant's rent increase. ``The current ordinance allows the owner to automatically raise rents, and he doesn't need to open his books to prove that he raising it to generate a `fair and just return,' '' 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 member of the committee that researched options for a new or revised ordinance. ``The `Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. option' restricts an owner's ability to raise rents and would also allow us to create a mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, board that could allow to seek a reduction in rent if we experience a reduction in amenities.'' Owners and managers of the Vista del Arroyo initially argued that the current system should be retained, but then suggested revising the current law to limit increases to 3 percent or the Consumer Price Index and allowing a tenant 12 months of tenancy A situation that arises when one individual conveys real property to another individual by way of a lease. The relation of an individual to the land he or she holds that designates the extent of that person's estate in real property. before the first increase. That plan is one of three options before the council tonight. The park owners noted their approval for this option in a July 28 letter to the Ordinance Review Committee, but did not return phone calls Tuesday. And a third option restricts the amount by which rent can be raised between tenants. The Simi Valley option, which would allow for a mediation board, is another. Under the Simi Valley option, modeled on that city's law, the owner must open his books to justify rent increases, Rowan said. |
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