The owners received permission from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development Agency that oversees all the MHCs in the state, and the city of Pacifica signed off on it in 2013.
However, the Coastal Commission, saying the exemption should not have been given, and that the owners are going beyond repairing and maintaining development because they are installing all new MH and replacing some of the infrastructure. “The commission’s regulations state that replacement of 50 percent or more of a structure is not repair and maintenance, but instead constitutes replacement requiring a CDP,” the Coastal Commission’s Nancy Cave wrote to the city in November. Pacifica officials say the Commission has no authority to override its exemption determination.
Rents in the community have been below market rate, but the new manufactured homes will rent for about double the current rate. Community owners intend on renting the homes instead of renting the home sites to home owners. ##
(Photo credit: MHVillage–Pacific Skies Estates)
