Camarillo City Council
AGENDA REPORT
Date: April 22, 2026
To: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
From: Greg Ramirez, City Manager
Submitted by: Bradley Calvert, Director of Community Development Subject: Mobilehome Land Rent Stabilization Ordinance
BACKGROUND
In March of 2025, the City began receiving complaints regarding rent increases in mobilehome parks. The City Council on April 23, 2025, directed staff to research the issue of mobilehome rent stabilization. On May 15, 2025, the City Council voted to establish an Ad-Hoc Committee on the topic of mobilehome rent stabilization. Currently, CMC Chapter
10.50 provides voluntary mediation to assist parties in a rental dispute. Unlike most apartments and certain other residential rentals that are subject to statewide rent control, those state laws do not apply to rental amounts in mobilehome parks.
On October 22, 2025, the Council adopted an urgency ordinance establishing a temporary moratorium on rent increases above 4.2 percent at mobilehome parks in the City for 180 days, expiring April 20, 2026. On March 25, 2026, the City Council reviewed a draft proposed Mobilehome Land Rent Stabilization Ordinance. After review, the Council directed staff and the Ad-Hoc Committee to further refine the ordinance concerning vacancy control and the establishment of an anniversary date for rent increases. Additional detail and analysis can be found in Attachment 3 – the March 25, 2026, Agenda Report concerning the previous draft of the Mobilehome Land Rent Ordinance.
DISCUSSION
At the March 25, 2026, Council meeting, the City Council directed the Ad-Hoc Committee and staff to further refine the ordinance. The primary areas discussed by the Council in need of further refinement were:
Vacancy Control/Decontrol, especially to more closely align with the City of Thousand Oaks ordinance.
An exemption from vacancy increases for family members/blood relatives.
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Adoption of language related to the establishment of an anniversary date in line with what the park owners suggested to prevent a negative impact in the first year of the ordinance.
Staff revised the ordinance based on these points and presented the revised ordinance at the April 8, 2026, Ad-Hoc Committee meeting for the committee member’s feedback.
The draft reviewed by the Ad-Hoc Committee members at their April 8, 2026, meeting would have allowed a ten percent increase upon re-rental of an existing Mobilehome to a new tenant in line with the City of Thousand Oaks. In reviewing, the Ad-Hoc Committee determined a maximum eight percent increase was more protective to the mobilehome owners while still accommodating the park owners, and was prudent in light of the difference in space rents charged between Camarillo and Thousand Oaks. The Ad-Hoc Committee guided staff to change the maximum allowable ten percent increase to eight percent upon re-rental of an existing Mobilehome to a new tenant, and this change is reflected in the attached ordinance.
Additionally, park owners may increase rent to market rate if the space is re-rented to a new tenant who replaces the existing mobilehome, brings a new mobilehome to an empty space, or an existing tenant who has been a resident for less than one year replaces the existing mobilehome. The previous version of the ordinance seen by the full Council allowed only a maximum six percent increase upon space turnover, even if a new coach was brought into the park.
In addition, pursuant to comments made by the Council, an exemption to the increase upon re-rental of an existing Mobilehome to a new tenant was included for “family members”, defined as a “spouse, child, stepchild, sibling, stepsibling, parent, stepparent, or grandparent” only.
Finally, language was included based on Council comments and the request of the park owners related to the establishment of the first anniversary date for rent increases. The language is as follows:
“In establishing an initial annual anniversary date for a Mobilehome Park, the one-time rental adjustment of the Mobilehome Spaces within the Mobilehome Park to establish the first annual increase in Rent pursuant to this Chapter shall be exempt from any provision prohibiting an increase more than once in a 12-month period.” Without the above language, the parks will have to delay increases to ensure all spaces do not receive more than one increase in a twelve-month period since increases have already taken effect on a rolling basis over the previous months.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no immediate budget impact as a result of this action. If the ordinance is approved, and if petitions are received, an arbitrator will need to be selected via the Mobilehome Land Rent Stabilization Ordinance
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procurement process. For reference, the last arbitration agreement the City entered into in 2022 as part of the Landlord-Tenant Mediation Program had a budgeted contract cost of $3,000 annually. It is anticipated that if a petition is filed and an arbitrator is needed that cost will be around $7,000-$15,000 per petition hearing and potentially more if financial consultants are also required.
CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC PLAN FY 2025/26
This ordinance supports the City Council’s Strategic Plan Goal and Objective 2.3 – Community Enrichment - Foster comprehensive community wellness through strategic initiatives that create a foundation of physical, mental, and social health for all residents, ensuring equitable access to resources and opportunities for healthy living. The ordinance will help create a foundation of physical, mental, and social health for affected residents in the mobilehome parks by reducing the stress of uncertain future rent increases.
CEQA DETERMINATIONS
The proposed ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, sections: 15060(c)(2) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonable foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment); 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly). The proposed ordinance establishes mobilehome park land rent stabilization for rental mobilehome parks within Camarillo, and does not propose any development. Because there is no possibility that this proposed ordinance may have a significant adverse effect on the environment, the introduction or adoption of this ordinance is exempt from CEQA.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Find that the proposed Ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) under the State CEQA Guidelines §§ 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3); and
2. Introduce an Ordinance adding Chapter 10.55 to Title 10 of the Camarillo Municipal Code establishing mobilehome park land rent stabilization.
3. Take other actions related to this Ordinance.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Ordinance
2. Ordinance Redlines
3. March 25, 2026 Agenda Report
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REFERENCE MATERIALS – AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT CITY HALL None