HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 231 1997 0528ORDINANCE NO. 231
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTED AS
AN URGENCY MEASURE, IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON
RENT INCREASES IN MOSILEHOME PARKS IN THE
CITY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and declares that there are
changing economic conditions impacting the affordability of
mobilehomes that necessitate amendment of Title 5, Business Taxes,
Licenses and Regulations, of the Moorpark Municipal Code to include
modifications to the regulation of mobilehome rents in the City.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby directs the Administrative
Services Department to conduct a study relative to amending Title
5, Business Taxes, Licenses and Regulations, of the Moorpark
Municipal Code to determine fair market mobilehome space rents,
which provide for a just and reasonable return to mobilehome park
owners. The City Council further directs that this study shall
furnish mediation procedures to be available in conjunction with
the regulation of mobilehome rents. In connection with said study,
the City Council contemplates the consideration of an amendment to
Title 5, Business Taxes, Licenses and Regulations, within a
reasonable time
SECTION 3. For the period of time that this Ordinance is in
full force and effect, no application for rent increase shall be
accepted or approved by the City. Any application previously
approved, but not yet effective, shall be exempt from this
moratorium, provided that this exemption shall not pertain to any
application for rent increase not approved by the City as of the
effective date of this ordinance. No increase in space rent shall
occur due to a change in tenancy during the time period that this
Ordinance is in effect, whether the space is vacated voluntarily or
due to an eviction action or a resale of the mobilehome. Nor shall
there be any transfer in responsibility for payment of any utility
fee or maintenance cost between owner and any park resident during
the effective time period of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. Pursuant to Government Code Section 36937, the
City Council hereby finds and declares this Ordinance to be an
urgency ordinance, requiring the immediate enactment thereof,
because there is a current and immediate need to preserve the
public peace, health or safety of the City and its citizens and the
processing and approval of applications for rent increase by
mobilehome park owners would result in that threat to public peace,
health or safety. The facts constituting such urgency and threat
are as set forth it sections ] and 2 of this Ordinance.
Ordinance No. 231
Page 2
SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon
its adoption, and shall expire and be of no further force and
effect as of August 21, 1997, unless sooner extended.
SECTION 6. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase part or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares
that it would have adopted this Ordnance and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be
declared invalid or unconstitutional
SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of
original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the
passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of
the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and
shall, within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark Star,
a daily newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section
6008 of the Government Code, for the -it) of Moorpark, and which is
hereby designated for that purpose
PASSED AND ADOPTED by tlless than a four- fifths vote of the
City Council this 28th day of./N", 1997 7,1 /
of th�ity of Moorpark, California
ATTEST:
Lillian E. Hare
City Clerk
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MOORPARK
799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark, California 93021 (805) 529 -6864
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) SS.
CITY OF MOORPARK 1
I, Lillian E. Hare, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark,
California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 1 ___ was adopted by the
City Council of the City of Moorpark at a meeting held on
the 28th day of __ -__- _MAY _ _ —__, 1997, and that
the same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBRRS EVANS. P-,RI-; TEASLEY, WOZNIAK AND MAYOR
HUNTER
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NOW
ABSTAIN: NONE
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 2nd . __ day -)f —_ - -. __JUNE _ _ _ .. _ . , 1997.
Lillian E. Hare
Cit} Clerk
(So.
PATRICK HUNTER BERNARDO M. PEREZ CHRISTOPHER EVANS
Mayor Mayor Pre Tem Councilmemb?r
DEBBIE RODGERS TEASLEY JOHN E. WOZNIAK
Councilmember Councilmember