Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 22-2205 ADDING CHAPTER 2 (HOUSING CRISIS ACT OF 2019 AND MOBILEHOMES) TO ARTICLE X OF THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE, DECLARING THAT CERTAIN MOBILEHOMES ARE "PROTECTED UNITS" UNDER SB 330 (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
In 2018 in connection with the adoption of the City's Charter, the City Council commenced a process of considering a mobilehome park zone (see section 207(B)(10) of the Charter). With the backdrop of numerous anticipated possible closures of mobilehome parks within the City of Carson and the affordable housing crisis faced in the state, in or about early 2019, the City Council considered ways to preserve mobilehome parks within the City of Carson and directed staff to pursue avenues to adopt zone changes that will allow for effective preservation of the City's parks.
The City Council directed staff to work on this issue as part of the General Plan update. The General Plan update is at its final stages of its review by staff with a target date of presentation to the Planning Commission in late spring. Separately, staff has commenced working on the necessary zone changes and expects to bring a proposed ordinance to the Planning Commission's initial consideration very soon.
In conjunction with City's plans for zone changes, as an additional measure to further help ensure preservation of mobilehomes within the City, the proposed Ordinance No. 22 - 2205 would serve as a declaration of existing state law and to affirm that to the extent certain mobilehomes within the City of Carson are subject to rent control and to the extent they are occupied by low- or very low-income households, those mobilehomes are "protected units" under the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, commonly known as Senate Bill 330 ("SB 330).
Under SB 330, a city or county shall not approve a housing development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant "pr...
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