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e e . VII. PUBLIC HEARING: ORDINANCE CONCERNING MOBILE HOME PARK CONVERSIONS City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the topic. Robin Johnson, consultant to the Planning and Development Department, gave the staff report. Ms. Johnson explained that the proposed ordinance incorporates recommendations of the Planning Commission which attempt to assist tenants of mobile home parks who may be displaced due to park closures in the future because of a change of use from residential to commercial or industrial. She said that the Holiday Park in Glenwood is the only park contemplating closure at this time. Ms. Johnson said the Planning Commission developed a series of policy statements regarding the issue of the supply of sites for older, smaller, mobile homes. Those policy recommendations are part of the proposed Glenwood Refinement Plan and the general housing policy strategy statement to be presented to the council at a later time by the Planning Commission. Ms. Johnson directed councilors' attention to a map showing mobile parks located in residential and nonresidential zones. Regarding costs to property owners, Ms. Johnson said the State uses a maximum figure of $2,500 per mobile home and she reviewed relocation reimbursements for different residential profiles. Mayor Miller opened the public hearing. John VanLandingham, 1172 West 5th Avenue, spoke as president of the Planning Commission. Mr. Vanlandingham said the proposal before the council represented a conservative compromise whose purpose was not to prevent parks from closing, but to assign some of the costs otherwise born by tenants (whom he described typically as older citizens with lower incomes) to the park owners who would profit from converting their land to other uses. Mr. Van Landingham described mobile homes as a form of low-income housing that constitutes a significant housing resource needing protection. Jean Beachtel, 2825 Miramonti, said she works with elderly people through Legal Services. She concurred with Mr. Van landingham's comments. Ms. Beachtel also raised a concern regarding low-income and elderly residents of mobile homes that cannot be moved. She requested that in addition to the proposed ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission, the council consider adding some protection for this group in the form of a relocation allowance in lieu of the moving expenses. Robert W. Smith, 951 East 36th Avenue, spoke as Legislative Chairman of the Lane County Chapter 447 of the American Association of Retired Persons. Mr. Smith supported the proposed ordinance which he said would help older, low-income mobile home residents. Helen A. Swenson, 04893 Gloria Gayle Way, Florence, Oregon, represented the Coalition for the Protection on the Rights of Mobile Home Park Tenants. She supported the Planning Commission1s recommendations which she said would benefit mobile home park tenants. MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 22, 1989 Page 9