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Sonoma residents, mobile-home groups push city to update park closure, conversion rules; council to consider item in November
Summary
Representatives of Sonoma mobile-home parks and statewide homeowner groups urged the City Council to update a 2004 closure-and-conversion ordinance. City staff said a draft revision has been submitted and the item will return to the council in November for direction.
Representatives of Sonoma’s three mobile-home parks and countywide homeowner organizations asked the City Council on Sept. 17 to update Sonoma’s closure-and-conversion ordinance, saying the city’s 2004 rules are outdated and leave homeowners vulnerable to park closure threats.
The Tri Park Committee, representing residents of Pueblo Sereno, De Anza Moon Valley and Sonoma Oaks, told the council the three parks house more than 1,000 residents — including seniors, working families and veterans — and urged the city to adopt stronger protections. John Kyle, president of the Sonoma County Mobile Homeowners Association, said the current ordinance leaves homeowners exposed to “extortion” by park owners…
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