City Council
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February 10, 2026
The Honorable Dr. Aisha Wahab
Chair, Senate Housing Committee
1021 O Street, Suite 3330
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 722 (Wahab): Mobile Home Park Protection Act - SUPPORT
Dear Chair Wahab,
On behalf of the City of San Marcos, we want to express our strong support for Senate Bill (SB) 722, which ensures residents of mobile home, recreational vehicle (RV), and special occupancy parks are as equally protected as subsidized affordable housing by adding the respective governing codes to the list of sites exempted from SB 79, consistent with other land use bills passed by the Legislature. We also want to express the urgent need for this legislative clean up to ensure mobile home park residents are protected from any potential evictions.
When SB 79 passed the legislature, it left mobile home park residents vulnerable to displacement by failing to extend the anti-demolition protections to mobile home parks. This omission is inconsistent with other land use bills such as Assembly Bill 2011 (Wicks, 2022) that exempted application for mobile home, RV, and special occupancy parks.
Allowing these communities to be displaced through transit-oriented redevelopment would undermine both housing security and the State’s broader affordability and equity goals. SB 722 provides a necessary and timely fix to an unintended gap created through the passage of SB 79 by extending anti-demolition protections to mobile home parks, RV parks, and special occupancy parks. The remedy in SB 722 prohibits an SB 79 development from being located on a parcel of land or site governed by the Mobilehome Residency Law, the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, or the Special Occupancy Parks Act to align the protections extended in other state land use bills. SB 722 ensures that mobile home residents receive protections equivalent to those provided to subsidized affordable housing residents, without undermining the core objectives of transit-oriented housing production.
For these reasons the City of San Marcos supports SB 722.
Sincerely,
Rebecca D. Jones
Mayor