Proposed Urgency and Permanent
Ordinances for Mobile Home Conversion
Permits
City Council
January 8, 2025
Government Code Section
54957.5 SB 343 Item Agenda:
01/08/2025 REG CC Item 15
Background
• Mobile homes are naturally affordable to low-income households; $1600 median monthly rent for a space
• Market Rate Comparison: $1,795 for studios and $2500 for one-bedroom apartments in South San Francisco
• Treasure Island Mobile Home and RV Park’s operating permit with the State’s Housing Department (HCD) is expired
• Violation of State Law, likely City’s Zoning Code as well • Other jurisdictions have enacted legislation to intervene in redevelopment to minimize resident displacement
Mobile Home Park in South San Francisco
Treasure Island Mobile Home and RV Park (1700 El Camino Real) Mobile home residents surveyed by San Mateo Housing Leadership Council Mix of long-term and short-term residents
Policy Goals
• Establish streamlined administrative processes for the City to enforce noticing and relocation benefit requirements for residents displaced if/when this housing type changes use • Provide tenant protections for lower-income individuals vulnerable to displacement
Housing Element
Alignment
• Policy EQ-3: Support residents who are atrisk of being displaced • Policy EQ-8: Protect existing residents
from displacement in areas of lower or
moderate opportunity and concentrated
poverty and preserve housing choices and
affordability
• PRSV-5.2 Assist tenants at risk of
displacement
Research Conducted
• Ordinances passed in 2017
• Includes rent control, establishing a zoning distrct, and a change of use ordinance
• Staff members report policy success—no conversion so far County of San Mateo
• Mobile Home Ordinances passed in 2016
• Hosts 43 mobile home parks comprising of over 10,000 units • Established Mobile Home Park Land Use Designation, Conversion Permitting Process, and Rent Stabilization
• Relocation benefits include right of first refusal
City of San Jose
Conversion Permit Application Process
The application package includes:
• Conversion Permit application form and fee
• Relocation Impact Report
• A list of all tenants who qualify for relocation benefits • Acknowledgement of Owner's obligations to provide written notices and informational meeting
• Any other information that ECD determines is necessary to ensure compliance with this Ordinance and State law
(Nearly) Identical to SRO Ordinance
Nearly all policies of the Mobile Home Ordinances, including:
• Triggering Events
• Qualifying Tenants
• Relocation Benefits
Are identical to those of the SRO Ordinances, EXCEPT FOR….
Relocation Benefits of Mobile Home Owners
Rent space, but own
mobile home (variance)
Payment of costs to move the mobile
home to a new park and rent for six
months
OR
Payment of in-place value of the mobile
home that cannot be moved (based on
the appraised value)
Rent space and mobile
home (same as SRO)
Cash payment of moving costs, rent for
six months, and a security deposit for a
new housing unit
Can request to move to a comparable
mobile home park or to other
comparable housing
*short term RV guests not eligible*
Council Action
Staff recommends Council consider adopting today an urgency ordinance and introducing a permanent ordinance for mobile home parks proposed to be converted, demolished, and/or redeveloped.
Objective: establish streamlined administrative processes for the City to enforce noticing and relocation benefit requirements for residents displaced from mobile homes.
Urgency ordinance: if adopted today, effectively immediately Permanent ordinance: introduced today. If adopted on 1/22, effective 30 days after