Mobile home park closure proposed

The owner of the Oaks, a 14-space mobile home park at 171 Siesta Way, proposes to close the park.
Eight tenants currently live in the park and they’ll be given a 6-month notice to vacate as well as up to $3,000 in moving expenses and an additional $500 for telephone hook-up fees, transportation expenses, and a security deposit, said a letter and documents filed with Sonoma County’s Permit and Resource Management Department by Novato attorney David Kenyon, who represents the park’s owner, Shashikant Singapuri.
The current tenants are paying about $178 per month to rent spaces in the park, with one long-term tenant paying $155 per month, according to a closure impact report filed with the county agency.
The 1.25-acre lot on which the mobile home park sits is zoned residential. The owner wants to close the park so it will be ready to be put to some future use, but the owner hasn’t decided what that use may be, his attorney wrote.
The Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission had the matter on its agenda for its meeting Wednesday evening at the Sonoma Valley Veterans Memorial Building.