Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Discussion
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDER ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR AN INTERPRETATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CARSON ZONING ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO NONCONFORMING MOBILE HOME PARK USES
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I. SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is for the City Council to consider an Interpretation of the City's Zoning Ordinance that would clarify, confirm and reiterate, consistent with the City's longstanding practices and the Council's expressed desire to preserve mobile home parks, that the City has discretion to allow actual, existing uses of mobile home parks which are located in industrial zones to continue legally and has no duty to abate such uses irrespective of the running of amortization periods.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
TAKE all the following actions:
1. ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 22-173, "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, INTERPRETING THE PROVISIONS OF DIVISION 2 (NONCONFORMITIES) OF PART 8 (IMPLEMENTING PROVISIONS) OF THE CARSON ZONING ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO NONCONFORMING MOBILE HOME PARK USES."
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III. ALTERNATIVES
TAKE any other action the Council deems appropriate, subject to compliance with applicable law.
IV. BACKGROUND
Mobile home parks which are located in industrial zones are prohibited as a planned use under Section 9141.1 of the Carson Municipal Code ("CMC"), but the City has continually opted to allow actual, existing uses of those parks to continue despite the running of the time periods set forth in CMC Section 9182.22, especially in light of the recent state wide housing crisis. If the City ever desires to enforce a change in use, it will follow state and local laws and will start a code enforcement process and will file an application for a relocation impact report as an applicant and will pay relocation benefits to the residents.
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