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Planning Commission adopts procedures for mobile home 'just and reasonable return' hearings
Summary
The commission adopted a resolution setting public hearing policies and time limits for mobile home rent adjustment hearings and accepted staff clarifications to the proposed language; the motion passed 4-0 with one commissioner absent.
Community Development Analyst Lynn Oshita presented proposed policies and procedures for conducting public hearings on "just and reasonable return" rent-adjustment applications under the City's Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Program (Title 5, Chapter 25).
Oshita said the program, established in 1980, regulates eight mobile home parks in Thousand Oaks and that City Council dissolved the Rent Adjustment Commission in 2021, delegating hearing responsibilities to the Planning Commission. She explained that capital improvement applications are reviewed administratively, whereas just and reasonable return applications require a Planning Commission public hearing and a written determination that may be appealed to City Council.
Oshita described the proposed hearing policies: staff recommended a standard time allotment of no more than 15 minutes for the applicant group (owner, attorneys, consultants), 15 minutes for the tenant group (mobile homeowners, attorneys, consultants), and a 10-minute rebuttal for the applicant, with flexibility to extend or reduce questioning based on case complexity. She told the commission staff proposes minor edits to the resolution language to add "relevant to the case" to section 7 and to revise the second sentence to begin "Factors considered may include, but are not limited to."
An unnamed staff speaker acknowledged the difficulty and complexity of rent-adjustment hearings and reminded the commission that appeals to City Council are possible. Commissioner McMahon moved to find the action not a project under CEQA (citing section 15378(b)(5)) and to adopt the resolution, as corrected. The motion carried 4-0 (Commissioner Lanson absent). The minutes show the Planning Commission will apply the adopted hearing time limits and the clarified language when it hears a just and reasonable return application.
