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Residents urge protections for mobile-home homeowners and call for street-safety review after fatal crash
Summary
During public comment, Tri Park Committee coordinator Lynn Marie De Vincent urged the council to adopt strong closure-and-conversion protections after private-equity purchases threatened mobile-home residents; another speaker urged improved lighting and safety on Broadway following a fatal crash.
At the start of the Feb. 18 meeting, residents used the public-comment period to press the council on housing stability and street safety.
Lynn Marie De Vincent, Tri Park Committee coordinator for Sonoma's three mobile-home parks, told the council that those parks represent roughly 488 mobile homes—about 8.5% of the city's housing stock—and warned that recent private-equity purchases in neighboring jurisdictions have created a pattern of closures or conversions that put homeowners at risk. "If we mobile home park homeowners lose our homes,…
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