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Supporters garner enough votes to get initiative on ballot
Supporters of a proposed initiative that seeks to strengthen mobile home park protections in Thousand Oaks have garnered more than 10,000 signatures on their petitions to place it on the November ballot.
Members of the all-volunteer signature gathering team will submit the petitions to qualify "Erickson's Law" for the ballot to the City Clerk tomorrow morning.
"We have so many signatures, we are over the top and beyond," Brenda Mohr Feldman, a resident of the Vallecito Mobile Home Park said. "That is what a bunch of people, a bunch of seniors, united can do." The measure calls for the landowner to pay a lump sum equal to the in-place market value of each mobile home in its current location if the park is going to be closed, a lump sum equal to the cost of moving the displaced residents and a lump sum equal to first and last months' rent and any security deposit for a new rental home.
It also calls for the creation of a new land-use designation for mobile home parks, gives residents a chance to buy the land under their homes and guarantees a specific level of compensation for tenants should their park close.
Posted by imp9824 on May 15, 2008 at 5:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I think the first line states that this is in Thousand Oaks.
Posted by Old_Fart on May 15, 2008 at 5:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It would be nice to have the headline say what initiative it was.
Posted by carefulnow on May 15, 2008 at 6:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
They don't call them the greatest generation for nothing. Congratulations!
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