LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The group that for several months has collected signatures to put a senior mobile home park rent control initiative before county voters plans to submit the signatures to the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office on Friday afternoon.
The Save Our Seniors Committee has collected more than 3,500 signatures, said committee member Heather Powers.
The committee collected a sizable cushion against invalid signatures; they needed a minimum of 2,115 signatures, according to the Registrar of Voters Office.
The proposed measure would define a senior mobile home park as one where 80 percent of the homes have at least one person over age 55; roll back rents to Jan. 1, 2012; and require that rent hikes be based on the percent of Social Security benefit increases.
The proposed county initiative differs slightly in language from a similar measure that has qualified for the ballot in the city of Lakeport.
The Lakeport City Council voted last month to put the Lakeport measure on the ballot for the next municipal election, which occurs in November 2014, as Lake County News has reported.
If it qualifies for the ballot, the county initiative would go before voters in June 2014, Powers said.
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