Mobile home park owners in San Jose have new rules restricting how their properties may be converted for other uses.
SAN JOSE -- San Jose has an estimated 10,836 mobile homes with about 35,000 residents living in 59 mobile home parks. That's the largest number of mobile home households in any city in California.Mobile home owners purchase the dwelling but they do not own the property it sits on. Mobile home owners pay a property lease to the park owners.'Gives you a lot of anxiety.
'What am I going to do? Where am I going to go? How am I going to move everybody?'The San Jose city council unanimously approved new rules that focus on developers or property owners who want to convert mobile home parks into other developments, including apartments. Developers or property owners must get approval from city council to change zoning rules. https://sanjoseca.primegov.
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