Mobile Home Parks Ventura County

The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday decided to limit long-term stays at the Ventura Beach RV Resort because it sits at the mouth of the Ventura River, which is in a flood plain. The state regulatory agency overruled a decision by the Ventura City Council last year to allow campers to stay up to nine months a year. The commission voted to restrict campers to a total of 90 days a year. Campers must leave every 30 days and are not allowed to return to the park for a minimum of 48 hours.

What began two years ago as a city effort to move farm workers out of an Oxnard slum may soon end with the $2.6-million purchase of a low-income housing parcel--but the torturous route to closing the deal has been littered with disputed claims of improper behavior by officials, sweetheart deals and betrayal.

What began two years ago as a city effort to move farm workers out of an Oxnard slum may soon end with the $2.6-million purchase of a low-income housing parcel--but the torturous route to closing the deal has been littered with disputed claims of improper behavior by officials, sweetheart deals and betrayal.

The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday decided to limit long-term stays at the Ventura Beach RV Resort because it sits at the mouth of the Ventura River, which is in a flood plain. The state regulatory agency overruled a decision by the Ventura City Council last year to allow campers to stay up to nine months a year. The commission voted to restrict campers to a total of 90 days a year. Campers must leave every 30 days and are not allowed to return to the park for a minimum of 48 hours.

A majority of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors said Friday that they will support a proposal to restore mobile home rent control in unincorporated areas after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold local rent control laws. In a letter dated Thursday, Supervisor Susan K. Lacey asked her fellow supervisors to direct county staff to prepare an ordinance reinstating rent control upon sale or transfer of existing mobile homes.

When 62-year-old Gilbert Hoscheit moved into the 400 Mobilestates mobile home park in Santa Paula five years ago, he looked forward to spending his retirement years in a community of people over the age of 55. Hoscheit, with six grown children of his own, chose a park that did not allow families. He said he wanted a place where children would not be "underfoot all the time." But that is not how things worked out.