Amador County – The Jackson Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, April 4, to discuss an application to subdivide the Rollingwood Estates mobile home park, and many of its residents are looking for a chance to have their say.
A majority of the Rollingwood residents reportedly oppose the splitting of the park’s property into smaller lots, including Shirley Dajnowski, who requested Jackson City Council’s support on two pieces of legislation, Senate Bill 444, and Assembly Bill 579 regarding mobile home parks. The council approved its support Monday, seeking to clarify state law regarding the subdividing of mobile home parks into individual lots, which can then be sold to the mobile home unit owners who rent there.
Dajnowski, president of a mobile home owners’ association, said residents “will have their first hearing” on the issue Monday. She said she understands state law to say that park owners need tenant support in order to have their application deemed complete, though the courts have made different rulings around California.
“I’m not an attorney, I’m an 88-year-old woman fighting for the people out here,” Dajnowski said Tuesday. “The ramifications of losing the rent control is what has people so worried out there.” She said “a great deal of people who reside in Rollingwood have severe medical problems” and very little income.
The price range mentioned by the owners to sell the small lots is said to be $85,000 to $100,000, Dajnowski said, and “the elderly can’t go out and get a loan.” And even if they could, she said they would not want to leave the debt to their relatives.
She said: “I’m right in the middle of it as far as finances and age is concerned.”
At the Council meeting Monday, she said that a “Tenant Impact Report” survey conducted at Rollingwood showed 112 people that live there are either widows or widowers. There are 74 couples and 186 homes, and the total of 206 people she assumed made up 7 percent of Jackson registered voters. She said it found that 135 of its respondents were against the individual subdividing of Rollingwood, while 16 responded that they supported it.
Rollingwoood is owned by three partners, with Joe Chirco the primary partner, along with Hing Belila and Richard Farr. The group has offices in Victorville. The application with the city to divide the parcels of Rollingwood was made by C&L Investment Company, represented by Joe Chirco.
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