Short Takes (North): Owner to close mobile home park - San Diego Union Tribune
OCEANSIDE: Catalina Mobile Estates, one of Oceanside's older mobile home parks, dating to just after World War II, is closing and will be razed.
Sally Schifman, an assistant city planner, said the Planning Commission will consider owner John Grant's request to shut down the park at Coast Highway and Morse Street next month.
Only eight residents are left in the 57-space park, Schifman said.
Schifman said the property is zoned for residential use but could be changed to permit more commercial development along Coast Highway.
“We have no plans for development of the property,” Grant said in a phone message. “We just plan to shutter it and close the park because it is very unprofitable.”
Grant said the property could remain vacant until the real estate market improves. He blamed his financial woes on the city's rent-control ordinance governing mobile home parks. –L.S.
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