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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA ORDINANCE NO. 1588 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THECITY OF PLEASANTON ADDING CHAPTER 6.60 TO THE pT~ASANTON MUNICIPAL CODE, ENTITLED "MOBILE HOME SPACE RENTS," TO TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY UPON ADOPTION THEREOF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: Chapter 6.60 is hereby added to the Pleasanton Municipal Code to read as follows: "Chapter 6.60 MOBILE HOME SPACE RENTS Section 6.60.010 Findinqs and Purpose. A. There are four mobile home parks within the City of Pleasanton. There are a limited number of vacant spaces in these parks and there are few additional mobile home park spaces available in the County and adjoining communities. On January 19, 1988, the Mobile Home Park Owners, the City and Mobile Home Owners entered into an Agreement providing for the stabilization of mobile home rents (hereafter "the January 19, 1988 Agreement.") Prior to the January 19, 1988 Agreement, some mobile home space rents had increased at a faster rate than the increase in the rate of inflation. B. Prior to the January 19, 1988 Agreement, the Pleasanton City Council had been petitioned by the Home Owners to establish a rent stabilization ordinance. When the City Council considered the ordinance, representatives of the Park owners suggested that alternatives to the establishment of a rent stabilization ordinance be considered. As a result of that suggestion, the parties negotiated the January 19, 1988 Agreement, which has stabilized rents in the mobile home parks within Pleasanton. c. Due to the lack of a significant vacancy factor and the high cost of moving mobile homes owned by the Home Owners in the parks, the Home Owners do not have an alternative of relocating to other parks in which rents may be more reasonable. Mobile Home Owners, unlike apartment tenants or residents of other rental stock, are in the unique position of having made a substantial investment in a residence for which - 1 -