Residents and advocates urge Lake County to finish lot-fee stabilization ordinance amid park sales

Residents and housing advocates urged the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 29 to accelerate a rent stabilization ordinance (RSO) and address recent mobile-home park sales that they say have resulted in rapid lot-fee increases.

Maya Lynn, who said she was speaking "for support our seniors, save our seniors, save our housing," listed park counts and recent sale prices, telling the board Willow Pointe Mobile Home Park sold for $4,000,000 in 2024 and Lakeshore sold for $870,000; she estimated roughly 1,000 people were affected by post-Aug. 18 lot-fee increases. Hillary Mosher, volunteer regional manager for the Golden State Manufactured Homeowners League, urged the board to finish the ad hoc committee's RSO draft and lean on Petaluma's experience: "More than a 100 communities have adopted these ordinances successfully and so can Lake County."

Speakers said corporate, out-of-state buyers are buying parks and using tactics that treat homeowners like renters (including insufficient notice for lot-fee increases), creating hardship for low-income and fixed-income residents. The board acknowledged the public comments and earlier Aug. 18 vote not to adopt a moratorium; supervisors said the RSO ad hoc committee's work would be reviewed as part of ongoing housing-policy conversations ahead of the Oct. 1 budget hearing.