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1 <br />Sargent, Maryann <br />From:Liao, Thomas <br />Sent:Monday, January 14, 2019 12:44 AM <br />To:Smith, Thomas Lloyd; Richard Pio Roda; Sargent, Maryann; Anderson, Kimberly; Miguel, Leticia; <br />Hernandez, Caroline <br />Cc:Kay, Jeff <br />Subject:Fwd: City Council Work Session on January 14 - Comments <br />FYI. <br />Begin forwarded message: <br />From: <br />Date: January 13, 2019 at 9:29:24 PM PST <br />To: PBallew@sanleandro.org, tliao@sanleandro.org, CityCouncil@sanleandro.org <br />Subject: Re: City Council Work Session on January 14 - Comments <br />Dear Councilman Ballew, Mayor Cutter. Mr. Liao and Councilmembers Lopez, Hernandez, Aguilar, <br />Cox and Lee - <br />Your clarification of the date of Monday's Trailer Park Ordinance work session made the last week a <br />busy one for me. Believe it or not, my goal has been to encourage people who live in the San <br />Leandro parks to speak up. I know you don't want to hear from me and am doing what I can to give <br />people the courage to speak to you, so I am doing outreach for the City again. <br />So glad that letters were sent out to park residents via the Post Office because so many people do not <br />have internet access at home. Surely you know that texting and emailing from one's phone does not lend <br />itself to this kind of communication with the City. Do MaryAnn and her staff have the bandwidth to <br />accept phone calls? <br />Having seen Tom's presentation when it became available online on Friday, I am grateful that you have <br />put as much time as I have into reading ordinances enacted by Hayward, other California cities and <br />Alameda County as well as the daunting California Mobilehome Residency Law. <br />I continue to be concerned that you will write an ordinance that protects the people at Mission Bay, but <br />NOT the other 500 families who live in the 8 other smaller parks in town. <br />Speaking with park tenants has been very educational - just going through the parks is a learning <br />experience - so I am going to make some comments here based on that experience. <br />- Abandonment is becoming much more common-place; this creates problems for both mobilehome <br />owners, park owners and the City. <br />The cost of moving a single- or double-wide that has depreciated in value, as well as there not being any <br />place to move it to, means that when tenants can no longer afford space rent, they often just abandon the <br />mobilehome no matter how long, or how much, they paid for it. When an older mobile home is <br />abandoned, there is no in-place transfer - the park owner simply takes it. Sometimes they dismantle or <br />haul it away; but it is cheaper to 'rent' it to someone in 'exchange' for cleaning it up, or to 'sell' it to <br />someone for a few hundred dollars. Rarely are these abandoned homes ever sold according to CA law <br />and registration or ownership is simply ... obscured or 'lost' (as was the case with John Busch).