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
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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.
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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
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