Cotati City Council
Agenda Staff Report
Item type: CONSENT CALENDAR (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: REQUEST FOR SUPPORT OF SB-749 (ALLEN), PROTECTING
MOBILE HOME PARKS FROM CLOSURE
Date: May 27, 2025
Written by: Damien O'Bid, City Manager
Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Council adopt a motion authorizing the Mayor to sign a letter of support for SB 749, to be transmitted to the California legislature.
Background
On May 2, 2025, the representative for the North Bay Division of League of California Cities (Cal Cities) forwarded a request from Legal Aid of Sonoma County, which is attached. Legal Aid requested that the City Council support SB 749, the text of which is also attached.
Cal Cities currently has a “watch” position on this bill. Staff also contacted the Golden State Mobile Home Owners League (GSMOL), the statewide interest group that advocates on behalf of the owners of mobile homes to inquire about GSMOL’s position on this bill. The following response was received from GSMOL, “Yes, we have been following this bill Damien, and GSMOL is in support. We have submitted some amendment language to the author to further clarify and strengthen the bill, which we are told will be submitted shortly”.
As of May 21, 2025, SB 749 is still working its way through the State Senate and still needs to pass to the Assembly and then to the Governor to become law.
Analysis/Discussion
Cal Cities provides the following bill summary, ”The Mobilehome Parks Act provides for the regulation of mobilehomes and related vehicle parks by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The Mobilehome Residency Law governs the terms and conditions of residency in mobilehome parks, and authorizes the management of a mobilehome park to terminate a tenancy for, among other reasons, a change of use of the park or any portion of the park if certain requirements are met. If the change of use does not require any local governmental permits, current law requires the written notice of termination of tenancy to disclose and describe in detail the nature of the change of use, and to be given 12 months or more before the management’s determination that a change of use will occur. The Planning and Zoning Law requires an owner of an assisted housing development, before the termination of a subsidy contract, the expiration of rental restrictions, or prepayment on an assisted housing development, to provide certain notices of the proposed change to each affected tenant household residing in the assisted housing development and affected public entities, as specified.
Current law defines “affected public entities” as the mayor or chair of the board of supervisors, as applicable, in which the assisted housing development is located, the appropriate local public housing authority, if any, and the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would delete the above-described notification requirements applicable to a change of use of a mobilehome park that does not require any local governmental permits, and would revise the Planning and Zoning Law to, instead, require management, at least 12 months and at least 6 months prior to the anticipated date of closure, cessation, or change of use of a mobilehome park, to provide notices of the proposed change to each affected tenant, prospective tenant, and affected public entities, as provided”.
Financial Considerations
There are no financial impacts related to sending a letter of support for SB 749.
Environmental Issues
There are no environmental impacts related to sending a letter of support for SB 749.