Chapter 24.360 — SENIORS MOBILE HOME PARK (MHP-S) OVERLAY ZONE

Sections:

• 24.360.010 Chapter description.

• 24.360.020 Applicability.

• 24.360.030 Land use regulations.

• 24.360.040 Limitations on converting seniors mobile home park.

• 24.360.050 Limitations on rentals.

• 24.360.060 Minimum design and performance standards – Annual certiKcation.

This chapter establishes the seniors mobile home park (MHP-S) overlay zone in order to preserve a variety and balance of housing types within the city, and to provide assurances that mobile home parks within the mobile home park overlay zone will remain available to senior households. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)

The provisions of this chapter shall apply within the boundaries of any area in which mobile home park developments are permitted pursuant to Chapter 24.220 or 24.236 and that has been designated as a seniors mobile home park (MHP-S) overlay zone by the city council pursuant to Chapter 24.540. Such areas may be designated as MHP-S on the o[cial zoning district map. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)

The San Buenaventura Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 2026-005, passed February 17, 2026.

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At least 80 percent of the spaces in any mobile home park designated seniors mobile home park overlay zone shall be occupied by at least one person 55 years of age or older. If an existing mobile home park met this qualiYcation on October 14, 2013, and fell below the 80 percent requirement between that date and the e]ective date of the ordinance codiYed in this section, the seniors mobile home park overlay zone shall be applied to that mobile home park and that park shall be required to operate as a seniors mobile home park by complying with the occupancy and rental limitations set forth in Section 24.360.050 for any new space of mobile home rental that becomes available. The signage, advertising, park rules, regulations, rental agreements, and leases for spaces in a seniors mobile home park in the MHP-S overlay zone shall state that the park is a seniors park. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)

No seniors mobile home park located within the MHP-S overlay zone shall convert to a mobile home park allowing occupancy by persons of all ages. “Convert” or “conversion” means changing from a seniors mobile home park to a mobile home park that could not qualify as a seniors mobile home park. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)

Spaces and mobile homes in a mobile home park in the seniors mobile home park overlay zone (MHP-S) shall be rented to and/or occupied only by residents who meet the age requirement set forth in Section 24.360.030; provided, however, that if the occupants of a space or mobile home who do not meet this requirement rented the space or mobile home before the e]ective date of the ordinance codiYed in this section, they shall be allowed to remain; and provided further, that when such occupants cease to occupy a space or mobile home, the mobile home and space cannot thereafter be rented except to occupants who meet that age requirement. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)

The signage, advertising, leases, rental agreements, and park rules and regulations for spaces in a mobile home park in the seniors mobile home park overlay zone (MHP-S) shall state that the park is a seniors residential park. Each seniors mobile home park shall have procedures for verifying that it qualiYes as a seniors facility under applicable federal and/or state law, including documentation establishing that at least 80 percent of the mobile homes or spaces in the mobile home park are occupied by at least one resident who is 55 years of age or older, or that 100 percent of the residents are 62 years of age or older. These procedures shall provide for regular updates, through surveys, a[davits, or other means of initial information supplied by the occupants of the mobile home

The San Buenaventura Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 2026-005, passed February 17, 2026.

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park. Such updates must take place at least once every two years. A summary of this occupancy veriYcation documentation shall be available for inspection upon reasonable notice and request by city o[cials.

The operator of each mobile home park in the seniors mobile home park overlay zone shall on an annual basis, provide to the city’s mobile home park rent administrator a certiYcation that the subject mobile home park is in compliance with the age qualiYcation requirements, substantially in the following form:

I [name] hereby certify that there is at least one occupant 55 years of age or older in [number of units] units of the total [number of units in the park] units in the [name of the seniors mobile home park] seniors mobile home park. This certiYcation is based on my personal knowledge of the residents, evidence provided to me in the form of o[cial government documents containing speciYc information about the current age of the residents, resident a[davits, or age certiYcations made by residents in their current lease agreements.

The mobile home park rent administrator shall establish the deadline for Yling the annual certiYcation, which, to the extent possible, should be coordinated with the timing of Ylings as may be required pursuant to the city’s rent stabilization program. (Ord. No. 2015-010, § 5, 9-21-15)