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P. Based on the foregoing facts, and the facts presented to the City Council at the meeting at which this ordinance was introduced and adopted, the City Council finds that allowing owners of mobile home parks to have unfettered discretion to increase rents prior to the City's completion of a study of the legality, feasibility, impacts and regulation of mobile home rent increases in an effort to avoid displacing large numbers of elderly Santa Ana residents, would pose a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety or welfare, and that a temporary prohibition of mobile home rent increases, except as allowed herein, is therefore necessary. Q. California Government Code sections 36937(b) and_65858(a), and Santa Ana Charter section 415, allow the City to adopt effective immediately as an urgency measure this interim ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare. The facts,00rfstitnting the urgency are: 1. Housing costs continue to escalate ;in Orange County, and mobile home parks serve as an important affordable housing option for Banta Ana residents; 2. Since a mobile home is ,affixed to the property on which it resides, it is generally not cost effective to move it, resulting in the owner losing the mobile home if he or she cannot pay the rent -imposed by the landlord; 3. Significant mobile home space eent.increases have been proposed in at least two (2) mobile home, parks in Santa Ana, and such increases threaten the economic and social stability of th'd City's elderly and low income residents; 4. Absent the adoption of this ordinand'e;`as a result of the economic conditions and recognized housing shortage"in Southern California, significant rent increases will impact- a substantial number of mobile home residents in Santa ,'Ana and constitute a, %threat to public health, safety and welfare, and a particular hardship for.sen!6r citizens, persons living on fixed incomes, and other vulnerable persons.lfving in mobile home parks in Santa Ana; and, 5. Certain aspects of public health, safety and welfare are not adequately protected due to the lack of mobile home space rent stabilization mechanics or controls in Santa Ana, and it is the interest of the City, the owners and residents of mobile home parks and the community as a whole that the City undertake' a comprehensive study to consider regulations to protect affordable housing with the City, including, but not limited to, rent stabilization regulations applicable to mobile homes. R. The proposed interim urgency ordinance would put in place a forty-five (45) day moratorium on any adjustment of mobile home space rent in Santa Ana in excess of three percent (3%), or the change in the Consumer Price Index, 269 65A-272