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Council introduces ordinance tightening mobile‑home rent increases, directs RHC input on implementation and budgets a fee reduction
Summary
The council unanimously introduced an ordinance to change the mobile‑home rent stabilization formula to 60% of CPI‑U with no floor and a 3% ceiling, and directed staff to implement a previously discussed fee reduction and to return with Rental Housing Committee input on the MNOI/appeals process.
Mountain View’s City Council on March 13 introduced an ordinance to amend the city’s Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance (MHRSO), changing the allowed annual adjustment and directing staff on fee reductions and the appeals process.
At first reading councilmembers approved staff’s recommended changes to the ordinance language that will: replace the current annual adjustment (100% of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, CPI‑U, with a 2% floor and 5% ceiling) with an adjustment equal to 60% of CPI‑U, remove the floor, and set a 3% ceiling. Housing Director Wayne Chen and Rent Stabilization Manager Anki Van Dersing presented the draft amendments; staff said the amendments would return for second reading on March 25 and, if adopted, would take effect 30 days after that final adoption.
Council discussion addressed two implementation issues…
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