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Mountain Valley mobile-home residents ask Carbondale trustees for funding to avoid displacement
Summary
Residents of Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park urged Carbondale trustees for town funding after the park went up for sale and residents face sharp space-rent increases; trustees said the issue will be added to a future agenda and that they are considering a significant contribution.
Residents of the Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park in Carbondale urged the Board of Trustees on Tuesday to help prevent displacement after the park was listed for sale and residents were warned of steep space-rent increases.
At the meeting, residents said the park includes 64 mobile homes, about 250 people and roughly 65 schoolchildren who attend Carbondale schools. Maria Romero, a long-time resident, told trustees that some residents have lived at the park for decades and that one older resident has already put her home up for sale because she cannot afford a potential increase to about $1,600 in space rent.
The residents’ appeal centered on keeping the park as an affordable option for working families and seniors on fixed incomes. “We need funding,” Maria Romero said. “There is a lot of uncertainty. We need this funding for us to be able to stay and be able to afford our rent.” Another resident, who said she grew up in the valley and purchased at Mountain Valley because it was affordable in 2020, thanked the town for ongoing conversations about the park.
Trustees responded that staff and elected officials have been discussing the issue and said it will be added to a future agenda for formal consideration. “We have been discussing it, and we are gonna add it to future agenda items,” a trustee identified in the meeting record as the mayor said. “We are very seriously considering a pretty large contribution.”
Trustees and staff encouraged residents to provide contact information so they would receive advance notices of related agenda items and be able to attend future meetings.
The discussion at Tuesday’s meeting was part of the public-comment portion of the agenda and did not include a formal vote on funding. Trustees indicated they will place the matter on a future agenda and pursue follow-up steps with staff and the residents.
The board did not specify a dollar amount, timeline or funding source at the meeting. Trustees asked staff to prepare future agenda materials and to coordinate with residents so the town can consider options in a public meeting.
