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G. Many residents of mobile home parks could become homeless if mobile home park owners were to impose significant rent increases. H. Increasing the number of homeless residents in Santa Ana, particularly elderly residents who may be in need of medical or other care, could create a public health and safety risk. I. The economic conditions and recognized housing shortage in Southern California has the potential to detrimentally impact a ;substantial number of mobile home residents in Santa Ana, and impose a particitlar„,hardship on senior citizens, persons living on fixed incomes, and other vulnerable persons living in mobile home parks in Santa Ana. J. Santa Ana is working diligently to care for, and,, assist its homeless population, and has opened and funded its own homeless shelter in the past'several months to meet the needs of its homeless residents. K. The Mobilehome Residency Law ("MRL"), California Civil Code sections 798, et seq., expressly authorizes cities to regulate the setting and/or increasing of rents for the use and occupancy, of a mobile home, space, subject to certain exceptions. L. Santa Ana Municipal Code ("SA standards for the development of rr1i residential developmenk,,and provide in areas throughout" tree, City that permitted uses in the district, consh General Plan. Chapter 40, Article X, establishes come (larks as a type of multiple -family the establishment of said development ensure their compatibility with other yith the Housing Element of the City's M. The City has not previously regulated the setting and increasing of rents for mobile home spaces. N. With the lack of current local regulation, some owners of mobile home parks in the 'City,may seek'�to! significantly increase existing rents, which rent increases could exacerbate the current housing and economic conditions and impose a hardship on ,individual mobile home residents, many of whom are elderly and/or living on low or moderate incomes. O. Pursuant to the City's police power, as granted broadly under Article XI, section 7 of the California Constitution, and Santa Ana Charter section 200, the Santa Ana City Council has the authority to enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the public peace, health and welfare of the City and its residents. P. Based on the foregoing facts, and the facts presented to the City Council at the meetings at which this ordinance was introduced and adopted, the City Council finds that, based on the unique characteristics of mobile home tenancies, and the Ordinance No. NS - _ Page 2 of 8 277 65A-280