LOUNSBERY FERGUSON
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January 6, 2025
TO: He
len Holmes Peak, City Attorney
FR:
Punam Prahalad, Deputy City Attorney
RE: Study for Implementation of Senior Only Mobilehome Park Zoning Ordinance Dear
Ms. Peak:
Following the adoption of the Interim Urgency Ordinance Imposing a Temporary City-Wide Moratorium on the Conversion/Change of Any Mobilehome Park Existing in the City Primarily or Exclusively by Residents Aged 55 Years or Older To a Mobilehome Park Allowing Residents of All Ages adopted by City Council on December 2, 2024, City staff met with Deputy City Attorney Paterno and myself on December
17, 2024 to discuss the approach needed to study and
implement a Senior Only Mobilehome Park Zoning Ordinance to preserve existing senior mobilehome housing as generally described in the initial report considered by the City Council.
The following items were discussed:
1. Determine whether an overlay district or a rezone is the proper approach.
2. Determine what type of CEQA review
will be needed.
3. Determine
timeline for bringing forth zoning ordinance amendment to discuss at public workshop(s) and for approval to Planning Commission and City Council.
4. Research needed into General Plan and Housing Element to ensure consistency with proposed zoning ordinance amendment.
5. Compile data regarding numbers of senior-only
mobilehome units in the City.
6. Research on the impact of senior-only zoning mobilehome park s on seniors as well as families living in the City.
7. Evaluate
effectiveness of a zoning action to preserve senior affordable housing stock.
These are the measures taken by the City to date to alleviate the conditions which led to the adoption of the Interim Urgency Ordinance. Since that meeting, staff have begun working on the above items and had planned to resume research and study in the new year after the City’s holiday closure. A public workshop and public hearings before the Planning Commission and the P
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City Council will take place in the upcoming months to consider adoption of a Senior Only M
obilehome Park Zoning Ordinance.
S
incerely,
P
unam P. Prahalad
LOUNSBERY FERGUSON ALTONA & PEAK, LLP