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Camarillo adopts 180-day interim moratorium on mobile-home land rent increases, caps annual hike at CPI+1% (4.2%)
Summary
After months of public testimony and an ad hoc committee review, the Camarillo City Council approved a 180-day interim urgency ordinance that limits mobile-home park land-rent increases to up to 4.2% (Los Angeles-area CPI plus 1%). The measure takes effect immediately and directs staff to return with a permanent proposal.
The Camarillo City Council on Wednesday approved an interim urgency ordinance that temporarily limits increases in mobile-home land rent to a maximum of 4.2% annually — a figure staff described as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim consumer price index (CPI) plus 1% — while the city studies a permanent rent-stabilization policy.
The 4.2% cap was adopted after an initial motion to limit raises to 3.2% failed for lack of the four-fifths vote required for an urgency ordinance. Councilmembers then approved a substitute motion, 5–0, to set the cap at CPI plus 1% for 180 days. The ordinance takes effect immediately and applies only to mobile-home land-rent leases during the moratorium period.
The decision followed more than three hours of public comment on the item, including testimony from several mobile-home residents who said rapid rent…
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