Kudos to Arcata City Council I wish to recognize and thank Arcata City Council members for voting unanimously to authorize Mayor Ornelas to send a letter of support in concept for SB 562, The Healthy California Act, to the bill’s authors, senators Lara and Atkins (Sept. 20 City Council meeting). Arcata joins other California cities…
Arcata incumbents hold seats; rent control OK’d
Click here for the full election results: election-night-final-report-11-7-16pdf Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – Arcata City Council incumbents were re-elected, mobile home park rent control was passed and school bonds were approved in Tuesday’s election. But all these down ballot choices were overshadowed by the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.…
Measure V gets major endorsement; opponents go after Mosher
UPDATED AT 1:35 P.M. with press release from League of Women Voters. Press release from League of Women Voters: Eureka, CA – Upon consideration of the League’s positions derived from careful study, the League of Women Voters of Humboldt County (LWVHC) supports Measure V on the November 8th ballot. The proposed initiative would adopt an…
Extortion? Email becomes fodder in rent control fight
UPDATE 10.25.16: According to an article in today’s Times-Standard, Hilary Mosher confirmed that she did, in fact, write the email. This contradicts statements made by Mosher to the Union in which she denied writing the email and suggests that the email was just a campaign dirty trick. UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after this article was…
Rents rise as election looms
Jack Durham Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – Some Humboldt County mobile home park owners are jacking up their rents ahead of the Nov. 8 election, in which voters will decide whether to approve a rent control ordinance. Measure V would limit rent increases to once a year and tie increases to the Consumer Price Index,…
Rent control goes to voters
Daniel Mintz Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors has approved placement of a mobile home park rent control ordinance on this November’s election ballot. Along with that action at their Aug. 9 meeting, supervisors directed county staff to analyze what the county’s administrative costs will be if the ordinance is approved…
Letters To The Ed through Jan. 13, 2015
Media ignoring a huge Humboldt story We are facing the largest story of decades and I am stunned at how little media interest there has been. The Humboldt Board of Supervisors is considering the ordinance for commercial grows. They are considering then the economic future of our entire county. This is huge! For example: if…
Arcata takes first step toward rent control
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union CITY HALL – The Arcata City Council last week directed staff to shape up some potential policy options for mobile home rent stabilization, aka rent control, in Arcata. The preliminary action followed a request from the Lazy J Home Owners Association for the council to take up the matter. Residents…
Mary Ella Anderson: A management letter terrorizes old hearts
For the past two years, residents of the Lazy J Senior Mobile Home Park have received a notice of a $20 rent increase in their April space rent and utility bill, so when the bill came near the end of March and there was no notice of an increase, everyone breathed a sigh of great…
McKMAC says no, not now, to dispute committee
Jack Durham Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – Members of Mack Town’s advisory committee seem to agree in concept with the idea of having a special committee to mediate disputes in mobile home parks, but there’s disagreement as to the timing of its formation. At its meeting March 25, the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee (McKMAC) voted…
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