Does Vallejo limit rent increases for mobilehome park spaces?

Vallejo's code: COLA increase is at most 100 percent of the average of the CPI-U and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose CPI increases. (Taken without a hearing; the owner must not have raised rents under this section in the prior 12 months; rounded to the nearest quarter percent.) (§ 5.64.040); A rental agreement for a new tenancy over 12 months is exempt from city rent maximum regulations. (Applies to a new tenancy rental agreement over 12 months.) (§ 5.64.070).

Mobilehome park rent in Vallejo: the local rules

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Annual increase limit	COLA increase is at most 100 percent of the average of the CPI-U and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose CPI increases. Applies: Taken without a hearing; the owner must not have raised rents under this section in the prior 12 months; rounded to the nearest quarter percent. § 5.64.040 · code text The percentage increase in the rent shall not exceed one-hundred percent of the average between: 1) the annual percentage increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U), and 2) the annual percentage increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, within this chapter to be known as the COLA.
Spaces covered	A rental agreement for a new tenancy over 12 months is exempt from city rent maximum regulations. Applies: Applies to a new tenancy rental agreement over 12 months. § 5.64.070 · code text if a rental agreement for a new tenancy is in excess of twelve months (subject to other provisions of the Civil Code), the rental agreement shall be exempt from any ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure adopted by the city which establishes a maximum amount that a landlord may charge for rent.
How often rent can go up	Only one cost of living adjustment (COLA) rent increase is allowed within 12 months. § 5.64.040 · code text A park owner shall be limited to one cost of living adjustment (COLA) rent increase within a twelve-month period pursuant to this chapter.
Petitions and pass-throughs	A park owner may pass through capital improvement and replacement costs as a temporary increase. Applies: Applies if the work finished within 12 months before notice. § 5.64.050 · code text A park owner may pass-through the costs of capital improvements and replacements under this section when the improvements/replacements were completed no more than twelve months prior to the date any notice of a rent increase is given. These pass-through rent increases shall be temporary and have an end date At least 51 percent of spaces may petition the city clerk within 30 days for a capital replacement pass-through hearing. Applies: The increase takes effect only if the hearing officer decides for it. § 5.64.050 · code text If, pursuant to Section 5.64.090 of this chapter, at least fifty-one percent of the spaces in a park file a petition for a hearing on the proposed pass-through with the city clerk within thirty days of the date the park owner gives notice of the pass-through, the proposed increase shall not go into effect unless and until the hearing officer hears the appeal and decides for the increase. A park owner may petition the city clerk for an additional rent increase to obtain a fair return. Applies: Applies to fair return. § 5.64.080 · code text A park owner may request an additional rent increase in order to obtain a fair return by filing a petition with the city clerk. Residents may petition for a hearing on a proposed increase, signed for at least 51 percent of occupied, affected spaces. Applies: Applies to a proposed increase not exempted; petition filed within 30 days of receiving the proposed increase. § 5.64.090 · code text Any residents who will be or have been subjected to a proposed rental or service charge increase not exempted by Section 5.64.060 may petition for a hearing by the hearing officer. The petition must be signed by a representative of at least fifty-one percent of the occupied, affected spaces within the park within thirty days of receipt of the proposed increase. Pass-through costs are averaged per space, amortized over at least 60 months, excluded from future base rent and not COLA-adjusted. Applies: Applies to capital improvement and replacement pass-throughs. § 5.64.050 · code text The costs must be averaged on a per space basis, and amortized over a period of not less than sixty months, and shall be excluded from the rent amount on which calculations of future rent increases are based and shall not be adjusted by the COLA. A pass-through may include interest equal to the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate plus one percent. Applies: Applies to capital improvement and replacement pass-throughs. § 5.64.050 · code text may include an interest rate on the cost of the capital improvement/replacement equal to the average rate for thirty-year fixed rate mortgages plus one percent.
When a home is sold or vacated	Space rent may not exceed 50 percent of the published two bedroom Fair Market Rent for Solano County. Applies: Applies on in-place transfer, or when a sold mobilehome is removed and the space is later occupied by a new tenant. § 5.64.070 · code text the amount of the space rent charged to the new tenant shall not exceed fifty percent of the published Fair Market Rent for a two bedroom unit in Solano County as identified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and as utilized by the Vallejo Housing Authority, in accordance with 24 Code of Federal Regulations § 888. The new tenant may be subject to the COLA on the next anniversary date. Applies: Applies after a mobilehome transfer or later occupancy of a vacated space. § 5.64.070 · code text The new tenant may be subject to the COLA on the next anniversary date unless otherwise prohibited by the lease/rental agreement. The new tenant's rent is not increased and need not be reduced. Applies: Applies if total rent before the sale and transfer exceeded 50 percent of the published Fair Market Rent. § 5.64.070 · code text If the total rent amount prior to the sale and transfer already exceeded fifty percent of the published Fair Market Rent for a two bedroom unit in Solano County, the new tenant's rent shall not be increased, but the rent amount is not required to be reduced.

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