19.32.020 Definitions.

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

"Commercial coach" means a structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped for human occupancy for industrial, professional or commercial uses and shall include a trailer coach as defined in Section 635 of the Vehicle Code.

"Comparable housing" means housing that is comparable in floor area and number of bedrooms to the mobilehome to which comparison is being made, which housing meets the minimum standards of the state Uniform Housing Code.

"Comparable mobilehome park" means any other mobilehome park substantially equivalent in terms of park conditions, amenities and other relevant factors.

"Conversion" means changing the use of a mobilehome park for a purpose other than the rental, or the holding out for rent, of two or more mobilehome sites to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation. Such a conversion may affect an entire mobilehome park or any portion thereof. A conversion shall include, but is not limited to, a change of any existing mobilehome park or any portion thereof to condominium, stock cooperative, planned unit development, or any form of ownership wherein spaces within the mobilehome park are to be sold, and the cessation of use of all or a portion of the park as a mobilehome park, whether immediately or on a gradual basis, or the closure of the park. "Conversion" shall not include the purchase of the park by its existing residents.

"Date of application for change of use" means the date of filing of an application for a rezoning, general plan amendment, use permit, subdivision, planned unit development plan, design permit, or any other discretionary land use application approval under Title 18, the Subdivision Code, and/or Title 19, the Zoning Code, of the city of American

Canyon Municipal Code, which application seeks approval of a change of use of or at a mobilehome park.

"Eligible mobilehome owner" means a mobilehome owner whose mobilehome was located in a mobilehome park on the date of application for a change of use.

"Home owner" means the registered owner or owners of a mobilehome, who has a tenancy in a mobilehome park under a rental or lease agreement.

"Mobilehome" means a structure designed for human habitation and for being transportable on a street or highway under permit pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 35790, and as defined in Section 18008 of the Health and Safety Code. "Mobilehome" does not include a recreational vehicle, as defined in Civil Code Section 799.24, or a commercial coach, as defined herein and in Section 18001.8 of the Health and Safety Code.

"Mobilehome park" means an area of land where two or more mobilehome sites are rented, or held out for rent, to accommodate mobilehomes used for habitation. For purposes of this chapter, "mobilehome park" shall not include a mobilehome subdivision, stock cooperative, or any park where there is any combination of common ownership of the entire park or individual mobilehome sites.

"Mobilehome space" means any area, tract of land, site, lot, pad, or portion of a mobilehome park designated or used for the occupancy of one mobilehome.

"Mobilehome tenant" means a person who occupies a mobilehome within a mobilehome park pursuant to a bona fide lease or rental agreement with the mobilehome owner and who, during his or her tenancy, was not the owner or member of the immediate household of the mobilehome owner.

"Resident" means a person lawfully residing in a mobilehome park, and includes a mobilehome owner, mobilehome tenant or member of the immediate household of the mobilehome owner or mobilehome tenant.