An ongoing battle between the landlord of a California mobile home park and its residents includes a bankruptcy filing, and now a stalled multi-million dollar failure-to-maintain lawsuit, according to the Orange County Register.
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A state hearing on a complaint by Thermal-area mobile home park residents that they were overcharged for their water — which already had hazardous levels of arsenic — wrapped Tuesday in Indio.
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The owners of Capistrano Terrace Mobile Home Park in San Juan Capistrano have filed bankruptcy, the latest twist in the saga of the 60-year-old park where residents already faced the prospect of losing their homes.
In a news release issued Friday, owners of the park, Capistrano Terraces Ltd., said they were forced into bankruptcy protection by the city's rent control ordinance, lawsuits by residents and other issues.
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Residents in the Laguna Terrace Park Assn. will meet Friday to discuss the June 29 court decision that has left them in limbo.
Judge Ronald L. Bauer ruled last month that the California Coastal Commission has final say over Laguna Terrace owner Steve Esslinger's proposed subdivision of the property to convert it into a resident-owned mobile home park.
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Aging gas pipelines in mobile home parks are a growing problem in California - especially for older parks that are responsible for maintaining the network of pipes under their properties.
"There is a lot of deteriorating infrastructure in mobile home parks throughout the state," said Christopher Anderson, field operations manager for the California Department of Housing and Community Development. "Sewer and electrical as well as gas.
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t has been two months since a mobile home fire in Bakersfield killed four people.
The State Department of Housing promised 17 News it would come inspect the mobile home park for violations. On Tuesday, they followed through.
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Taying they have waited long enough, and that mobile home owners are becoming more vulnerable as the economy improves, Santa Barbara County leaders on Tuesday decided to move forward quickly with an ordinance to protect those owners from a park’s closure or conversion to another use.
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Her 16-year-old daughter, Cheyenne, wrote about how the family, facing a March 30 deadline to leave the Olivehurst mobile home park where they live, hopes to help her mom and find a new home.
"I almost cried," Tosha LeVally said Tuesday at The Gardens off Feather River Boulevard.
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The city is considering its next step after a judge recently granted a petition for the Lamplighter Mobilehome Park to convert its rental units into ownership lots. Judge Joseph Brisco, in San Bernardino County Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga in late January, said he intended to allow the park owner to subdivide the park, according to city officials.
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Carson mobile home residents have been living in a state of nail-biting uncertainty for years while the city has defended its rent-control restrictions in a series of ongoing legal battles.
That anxiety over whether tenants in the city's 23 mobile home parks will face huge rent increases may settle after a recent court ruling that is expected to set a precedent affecting Carson.
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Terri Pohrman of American Canyon said PG&E has not been keeping up its gas pipeline inspections in the mobile home park where she lives, and she worries about it every day.
A PG&E spokesman said, however, that the company is responsible for only one area mobile home park -- the Trade Winds RV Park in Vallejo -- which is not where Pohrman lives.
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