Does Fontana limit rent increases for mobilehome park spaces?

Fontana's code: Annual rent increases are limited to up to 100 percent of CPI. (§ 14-65); A park is exempt when 60 percent of spaces have long-term leases exempt from rent control under state law. (Applies when 60 percent of the spaces have entered exempt long-term leases.) (§ 14-66).

Mobilehome park rent in Fontana: the local rules

Fontana code What Fontana's code adds
Annual increase limit	Annual rent increases are limited to up to 100 percent of CPI. § 14-65 · code text The rent for a mobile home space may be increased by up to 100 percent of CPI once each calendar year, provided that the rent for that space has not been increased during the preceding 12 months, except as permitted by subsections (e), (f), (g) and (h)
Spaces covered	A park is exempt when 60 percent of spaces have long-term leases exempt from rent control under state law. Applies: Applies when 60 percent of the spaces have entered exempt long-term leases. § 14-66 · code text (2) A mobile home park where 60 percent of the spaces in the park have entered long-term leases exempt from rent control pursuant to the California Mobile Home Residency Law, Civil Code § 798 et seq.
How often rent can go up	Rent can go up once each calendar year, if that space's rent did not rise in the previous 12 months. § 14-65 · code text The rent for a mobile home space may be increased by up to 100 percent of CPI once each calendar year, provided that the rent for that space has not been increased during the preceding 12 months, except as permitted by subsections (e), (f), (g) and (h)
Petitions and pass-throughs	An owner may apply to pass through higher owner-paid utility costs, property tax, or reasonable completed capital improvement costs. Applies: Applies to utility costs, property tax, or completed capital improvement costs. § 14-65 · code text An owner may obtain an increase equal to the amount of any increase in the cost of the utilities paid for by the owner, and any increase in property tax or the cost reasonably incurred in installing a completed capital improvement by application to the rent administrator. An owner may apply to the rent administrator for arbitration within 10 days after the meet-and-confer procedures fail. Applies: Applies when the meet-and-confer procedures reach no agreement. § 14-65 · code text If the meet and confer procedures set forth in subsection (g) of this section do not result in agreement, an owner may apply for arbitration of the requested rent increase by filing an application with the rent administrator within ten days after the meet and confer meeting. An arbitrator must grant an increase when the maximum rent otherwise allowed is not a just and reasonable return. Applies: Applies in arbitration. § 14-67 · code text An arbitrator shall grant a rent increase when the maximum rent otherwise provided by this article is not sufficient to permit the owner to receive a just and reasonable return.
When a home is sold or vacated	One unregulated rent increase per space is allowed on vacancy. After it takes effect, the space returns to rent control. Applies: Applies when the mobile home is sold and vacated or removed by the previous owners. § 14-65 · code text Each owner shall be entitled to one unregulated increase per space upon vacancy. A vacancy should be defined as the time during which the mobile home is sold and vacated or removed by the previous owners. A change of title because of a death and inheritance of the mobile home is not a vacancy. Applies: Applies to a change of title due to death and inheritance. § 14-65 · code text A vacancy should not be defined as a change of title due to the death of one party and the subsequent inheritance of the mobile home by another party.

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