GSMOL News
Senior mobile home park debate continues as county ordinance takes effect
By Crystal Bermudez | Source Residents at Del Cielo Mobile Estates in Orcutt are speaking out about changes at their mobile home park following its purchase by a new owner. The concerns come as Santa Barbara County passed a new ordinance aimed at protecting...
Soquel mobile home park owners seek 100 apartment redevelopment
By Jesse Kathan | Source At least 10 mobile-home residents have been displaced from Soquel Gardens RV Park in the past five years, and at least six more residents could be forced to move if county officials allow its closure and accept a redevelopment plan for 100 to...
Long-troubled Soquel RV [actually mobilehome] park faces uncertain future under controversial new owner
By Max Chun | Source | A long-troubled mobile home park just up the hill from Soquel Village is facing an uncertain future after it was purchased out of bankruptcy earlier this year by a company with a history of hiking rents and attempting to close parks, raising...
Santa Barbara County Planning Commission supports new zoning to protect 11 senior mobile home parks
By Caleb Wiseblood | Source Six months after issuing an urgency order to stop mobile home parks for seniors from broadening to welcome all ages, Santa Barbara County is one step closer to something more permanent. Adopted last November by the Board of Supervisors, the...
Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks Clear [Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission
The proposed changes would establish requirements for ages and add greater protections for parks in unincorporated areas By Daniel Green | Source | Proposed protections for senior mobile home parks have passed the first hurdle and will now make their way to the next...
AB 806 Passes Assembly Housing Committee – 4/30/25
PEOPLE POWER!! These GSMOL members and other advocates testified and did "Me Toos" at the Capitol to support AB 806, a GSMOL-sponsored bill authored by Damon Connolly. Assemblymember Connolly is in the back row, second from right. The badges with hearts denote...
[Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission Will Consider Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks
The proposed ordinance would prevent owners from changing senior parks to all ages and provide more protection from development By Daniel Green | Source The County of Santa Barbara is moving closer to protecting senior mobile home parks. On Wednesday, the County...
Petaluma countersues mobile home park operator, continuing dispute over who can live there
By Jennifer Sawhney | Source The city’s lawsuit seeks to enforce Youngstown Mobile Home Park’s designation as a seniors-only residential area. Park operators claim the city’s ordinance regulating that designation is unlawful and discriminatory. They say they will...
San Jose says mobile home park owner can’t raise rent
by Vicente Vera | Source A San Jose mobile home park with hundreds of spaces has failed to get city approval for a proposed rent increase. Officials with the San Jose Rent Stabilization Program have denied the Golden Wheel Mobile Home Park owner’s request to raise...
[State Assemblymember] Connolly proposes protections for mobile home residents
By Cameron Macdonald | Source Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced two bills that aim to strengthen protections for mobile home residents. AB 456 would stop mobile home park managers from requiring residents to repair their homes’ interiors before the...
