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City of Santa Ana Mobile Home Parks Assessment of Existing Conditions and Policy Options May 21, 2019 Park Conversion to Resident Ownership Since 2014, California state law has supported the conversion of mobile home parks to resident ownership. The Subdivision Map Act requires a subdivider, at the time of filing a tentative or parcel map for a subdivision to be created from the conversion of a rental mobilehome park to resident ownership, to avoid the economic displacement of all nonpurchasing residents by following specified requirements relating to the conversion. A subdivider is also required to obtain a survey of support from the residents of the mobilehome park for the proposed conversion, and that the results of the survey be submitted to the local agency for consideration. The local agency is then required to consider the results of the survey in making its decision to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map. Right of First Refusal When a mobile home park owner decides to put the park up for sale, he or she is not legally required to offer the residents the right -of -first refusal to buy the park. The MRL provides that the park management must give the governing board of the park homeowners association a 30-day written notice of the park owner's intention to offer or list the park for sale, and is only applicable if certain conditions are met. (Civil Code §798.80) In order to receive the notice, residents must form a homeowners association for the purpose of buying the park and register with the Secretary of State. The homeowners association must notify the park each year of the residents' interest in buying the park. The notice requirement does not apply to the sale or transfer of the park to corporate affiliates, partners, or relatives, or transfers triggered by gift, devise, or operation of law, eminent domain, foreclosure, or transfers between joint tenants or tenants in common. 22 65A-25