Amador County – Jackson City Council tonight will consider a request by a Rollingwood Estates resident to support California Senate and Assembly bills related mobile home parks subdividing and ordinances.

Shirley Dajnowski, president of Chapter 1605 of the Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League, at the March 14 council meeting said there were two bills introduced to help stop attacks on rent stabilization ordinances. She requested that the city council write a letter of support for Senate Bill 444, and Assembly Bill 579. Dajnowski said she would be contacting Assemblywoman Alyson Huber about the issue, and Vice Mayor Keith Sweet said he could assist in that.

City Manager Mike Daly in a memo to the council for today’s meeting listed text from the SB 444, quoted from the Legislative Counsel’s Digest. It said the “Subdivision Map Act requires a subdivider, at the time of filing a tentative or parcel map for a subdivision to be created from the conversion of a rental mobilehome park to resident owner ship, to avoid the economic displacement of all nonpurchasing residents by following specified requirements relating to the conversion, including the requirement that the subdivider obtain a survey of support of residents of the mobilehome park.”

It also would require that the “results of the survey be submitted to the local agency for consideration.” SB 444 “would clarify that the local agency is required to consider the results of the survey in making its decision to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map.” It would also authorize a city “to disapprove the map if it finds that the results of the survey have not demonstrated adequate resident support.”

Daly in the memo said that “particular section of the Subdivision Map Act has come to light in Jackson over the past few months during the processing of the Rollingwood Estates subdivision application currently pending and scheduled for hearing with the Planning Commission on Monday, April 4.”

Daly said the “open ended nature of the language pertaining to the importance of the resident survey as it exists today has left this important part of the subdivision processing up in the air.” He said “court decisions have both emphasized and de-emphasized the importance of this survey.”

He said “this bill would clarify that the local agency is required to consider the results of the survey.”

Daly in the memo said AB 579 “is proposed to provide cost recovery abilities to public entities when defending actions brought by a mobile home park owner to challenge a local ordinance that regulates space rent or is intended to benefit or protect residents of a mobile home park, if the public entity prevails.”

The city council meets at 7 p.m. today.

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