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Ord 1912 - Urgency Ordinance to Amend Ordinance 1906 Suspending Provisions of Section 14.80.315 of the Town Code Regarding Recent Rent Increases to Pass Through Increased Debt ServiceORDINANCE 1912 URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS TO AMEND ORDINANCE 1906 SUSPENDING PROVISIONS OF SECTION 14.80.315 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING RENT INCREASES TO PASS THROUGH INCREASED DEBT SERVICE The Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos does hereby ordain: SECTION I An urgent need for this ordinance exists in order to preserve the public health and safety in that: 1. A significant number of mobile home park tenants live on a fixed limited income; and 2. The availability of spaces for mobile homes in the Town's two mobile home parks is very limited and zoning requirements allow mobile homes in the Town only in mobile home parks; and 3. Significant expenses and costs are associated with moving mobile home coaches from one location to another; and 4. The supply of low income housing in the Town of Los Gatos is extremely limited; and 5. The Town's current rent control ordinances might be interpreted to permit a new mobile home park owner to increase rents significantly to pass through the increased costs of financing; and CSD08:A: \0RDS \CS081792.001 4- 6. Significant increase in rents in mobile home parks is likely to result in the constructive eviction of mobile home park tenants on fixed and limited incomes in an environment where alternative affordable housing is extremely scarce which would result in a serious threat to their health and safety. SECTION 11 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14.80.315, in order to allow review of the reasonableness of the standards and criteria of the Town's Code and regulations, until December 2, 1992, the hearing officer shall deem that all rent increases in mobile home parks attributable to increased costs of debt service are unreasonable. CSD08:A: \ORDS \CS081792.001 -2- SECTION III This ordinance takes effect immediately and shall be published once within fifteen (15) days in the Los Gatos Weekly- Times, a newspaper of general circulation, published in the Town of Los Gatos. The foregoing ordinance was passed and adopted at a regular meeting Los Gatos Town Council on the 17th day of August, 1992, and adopted by the following vote as an urgency ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos. COUNCIL MEMBERS: AYES: Joanne Benjamin, Steven Blanton, Brent N. Ventura NAYS: None. ABSENT: Randy Attaway ABSTAIN: None. SIGNED: MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA ATTEST: CLERK OF THE TOWN OF OS GATOS LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA CSD08:A: \ORDS \CS081792.001 -3-