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CHAPTER 6.60 MOBILEHOME SPACE RENTS 6.60.010 Findings And Purpose. A. There are four mobilehome parks within the City. There are a limited number of vacant spaces in these parks and there are few additional mobilehome park spaces available in the County and adjoining communities. B. On January 19, 1988, the mobilehome park owners and the City entered into an agreement providing for the stabilization of mobilehome rents (hereafter the January 19, 1988 agreement). Prior to the January 19, 1988 agreement, some mobilehome space rents had increased at a faster rate than the increase in the rote of inflation. C. Prior to the January 19, 1988 agreement, the City Council had been petitioned by the mobilehome residents 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 stabilized rents in the mobilehom¢ parks within Pleasanton. D. During 1991 the park owners and the mobilehome residents expressed to the City that they were interested in negotiating a new agreement. The City sponsored and facilitated extensive negotiations to eliminate the need for the ordinance first adopted in 1992. It was assisted by the Pleasanton Mobilehome Committee consisting of park owner representatives and mobilehome resident representatives. After several months of negotiations, a new rent stabilization agreement ("the March 17, 1992 agreement") was developed and approved by the park owners and the City. However, one of the park owners would not sign the new agreement. Without benefit of an agreement to stabilize mobilehome rents, a park owner could impose whatever rent he or she chose, to the detriment of the mobilehome residents. In fact, the one park owner who would not sign the March 17, 1992 agreement had raised the rents on mobilehome spaces within his park during 1992 at a rate higher than what is p~mdssible under either the January 19, 1988 agreement or the March 17, 1992 agreement. E. Despite the efforts of the City and the Pleasanton Mobilehome Committee, the one park owner refused to enter into the March 17, 1992 agreement and accordingly, the City adopted an ordinance, later modified, to stabilize mobilehomc rents in parks owned by owners who chose not to enter into the March 17, 1992 agreement. F. As to the mobilehome park at 4202 Stanley Boulevard, this Chapter establishes 1992 as the base year for purposes of determining fair return adjustments (Section 6.60.070 of this Chapter) and as pan of that process, looks to the base year gross income; base year gross income is predicated on the base year rents. 3