Does Pismo Beach limit rent increases for mobilehome park spaces?

Pismo Beach's code: Increase is 75 percent of the prior-year CPI increase (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area), applied to the base rent. (Larger increases are allowed only through the net operating income, capital expense or capital improvement provisions.) (§ 5.20.031); Increases above 75 percent of CPI are allowed only for net operating income, capital expense or capital improvement charges. (Applies to increases exceeding 75 percent of CPI.) (§ 5.20.031).

Mobilehome park rent in Pismo Beach: the local rules

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Annual increase limit	Increase is 75 percent of the prior-year CPI increase (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area), applied to the base rent. Applies: Larger increases are allowed only through the net operating income, capital expense or capital improvement provisions. § 5.20.031 · code text Once a year, management may notice a "seventy-five percent of CPI increase," to be calculated as the product of (a) base rent then in effect, multiplied by (b) seventy-five percent of the increase in the most recently published Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, All Items, in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area ("CPI"), over the CPI one year earlier. Increases above 75 percent of CPI are allowed only for net operating income, capital expense or capital improvement charges. Applies: Applies to increases exceeding 75 percent of CPI. § 5.20.031 · code text The park owner may notice and receive an annual increase in rent in excess of seventy-five percent of CPI only if such increase in rent is calculated in compliance with Section 5.20.031 C (increases in base rent to maintain net operating income), Section 5.20.031 D (rent increases for capital expense charges) and Section 5.20.031 E (rent increases for capital improvement charges).
Spaces covered	Rent control applies to any mobilehome park where 2 or more sites are rented or held out for rent. § 5.20.020 · code text The rent control provisions of this chapter shall apply to any mobilehome park where two or more mobilehome sites are rented or held out for rent, subject to the following exemptions set forth in subsection C below. Rental agreements longer than 12 months are exempt from rent control during the agreement and its uninterrupted extensions. Applies: Resident has at least 30 days to accept the agreement and may void it in writing within 72 hours. § 5.20.020 · code text Rental agreements meeting the criteria of subdivision b shall be exempt from the rent control provisions of this chapter. The terms of a rental agreement meeting the criteria of subdivision b shall be exempted from coverage under this chapter restricting rents in mobilehome parks, only during the term of the rental agreement or one or more uninterrupted, continuous extensions thereof. Exempt: a space that is not the occupant's principal residence. Applies: Applies only if the occupant has not rented the mobilehome to another party. § 5.20.020 · code text Notwithstanding any other section in this chapter, if a mobilehome space within a mobilehome park is not the principal residence of the occupant and the occupant has not rented the mobilehome to another party, it shall be exempt from the rent control provisions of this chapter.
How often rent can go up	Rent may increase once a year. § 5.20.031 · code text Once a year, management may notice a "seventy-five percent of CPI increase,"
Petitions and pass-throughs	A majority of homeowners may petition for a rent hearing when the increase exceeds 75 percent of the CPI increase. Applies: Applies when the annual increase exceeds the 75 percent of CPI increase. § 5.20.033 · code text If management complies with the meet and confer process set forth in Section 5.20.034, then management shall be entitled to receive the rent increase in excess of the seventy-five percent of CPI rent increase as of the effective date of increase specified in the notice, unless either (a) a homeowner majority has validly petitioned for a rent hearing in accordance with the rules or (b) management and homeowner representatives have entered into a settlement agreement through the meet and confer process.
When a home is sold or vacated	Management may negotiate a new base rent for a space lawfully reverting to management; that rent falls under the chapter. Applies: Applies when a space reverts to management through lawful means: voluntary termination, lawful tenancy termination or abandonment. § 5.20.030 · code text When a mobilehome space reverts to management control through lawful means, for example, by voluntary action taken by the occupant (i.e., the occupant voluntarily terminates his or her right to occupy the space regardless of whether the mobilehome is removed from the space) or when a tenancy is terminated as allowed by law, or when there has been an abandonment, management may negotiate a new base rent for the reverted space notwithstanding the maximum rent allowed under this chapter.

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