Does Moreno Valley limit rent increases for mobilehome park spaces?

Moreno Valley's code: Cap: greater of 5% of base rent, or lesser of 65% of CPI rise or 8% of current rent. (Plus permitted capital replacement and capital improvement pass-throughs.) (§ 13.01.070); Rent can go up no more often than once every 12 months. (§ 13.01.070).

Mobilehome park rent in Moreno Valley: the local rules

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Annual increase limit	Cap: greater of 5% of base rent, or lesser of 65% of CPI rise or 8% of current rent. Applies: Plus permitted capital replacement and capital improvement pass-throughs. § 13.01.070 · code text An amount not to exceed the greater of the following amounts: a. Five percent of the base rent, or b. The lesser of 65% of the percentage increase in the CPI for the 12 month period immediately preceding the notice of rent increase, or eight percent of the then current rent;
How often rent can go up	Rent can go up no more often than once every 12 months. § 13.01.070 · code text No rental adjustment for a mobilehome space shall be noticed or permitted or enforced more frequently than once every 12 months.
Petitions and pass-throughs	A park owner may apply to the city manager for an extraordinary rent adjustment; an arbitrator decides entitlement. Applies: Applies when the owner does not get a just and reasonable return after the maximum permitted increase. § 13.01.040 · code text In the event a park owner is not receiving a just and reasonable rate of return on the park owner's investment in the park after receiving the maximum permissive rent increase otherwise allowed by this chapter, the park owner may file an application with the city manager requesting that a park committee be elected if such a committee is not already in existence, and that an arbitrator be appointed to determine if the park owner is entitled to put into effect an extraordinary rent adjustment. Capital replacement costs pass through only above the park's basic operating cost and the capital expense deductible amount. Applies: Applies to capital replacements. § 13.01.090 · code text Only the amount of excess over the basic operating cost (the excess capital replacement cost) may be passed through to the mobilehome owners. A capital replacement pass-through needs no opposition from a majority of affected mobilehome owners, unless the city manager approves it. Applies: Applies to capital replacements. § 13.01.090 · code text Capital replacements expenditures may be passed-through only if the pass-through is not opposed by a vote of the owners of a majority of the affected mobilehomes located within the park in an election conducted by the residents committee to consider the question. The city manager may approve a pass-through despite majority disapproval, for legal, court-ordered, health or safety needs. Applies: Applies to a pass-through opposed by a majority of owners; it cannot exceed what is otherwise permitted, and owner negligence does not qualify. § 13.01.090 · code text The city manager may exercise this right of approval only after determining that the capital replacement to which the pass-through is related is required by applicable law, by order of a court or a regulatory officer or agency of competent jurisdiction, or for health or safety reasons; A capital improvement pass-through needs owner-resident committee agreement and approval by 60% or more of registered mobilehome owners. Applies: Applies to capital improvements. § 13.01.080 · code text Expenditures by the park owner for capital improvements may be passed-through to the mobilehome owners only if the amount of the pass-through and the exact specification of the capital improvement are agreed upon between the park owner and the resident committee, and subsequently approved by 60% or more of the registered owners of all mobilehomes located within the park in an election called to consider such matter.
When a home is sold or vacated	The park owner may adjust the space rent without regard to the chapter. Applies: Applies when a space becomes vacant with no mobilehome in place. § 13.01.120 · code text In the event that a space becomes vacant, that is, with no mobilehome in place, a park owner may adjust the space rent without regard to the provisions of this chapter. Rent may rise to the greater of CPI-adjusted rent since 1987 or the park average, plus any special rent benefit. Applies: Applies when a mobilehome changes ownership but stays on the same space; CPI base is January 1, 1987; the average is for a similar space. § 13.01.120 · code text If the prior owner of such mobilehome had been receiving special rent benefits for such mobilehome from the park owner at and prior to the change of ownership, the rent may, in addition, be increased in the amount of such benefit.

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