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AGENDA DATE:
11/2/2021
ACTION REQUESTED:
Discuss and decide next steps regarding Shady Acres Mobile Home Park
BACKGROUND:
Kittitas County is the landlord for the Shady Acres Mobile Home Park. The written leases it has (many
tenants have refused to sign written leases and so are month-to-month tenants) will be expiring in December
of 2021. RCW 59.20.050 requires the County to offer a written lease of at least a year's term at the date of
these lease expirations. Pursuant to RCW 59.20.090, should a tenant with a written five-year lease refuse to
sign the offered one-year lease, their five-year lease would renew automatically. RCW 59.20.080 prohibits
not renewing leases unless (among other possibilities not applicable here) the landlord is going to close the
park. Under (1)(e) of that RCW a closure requires a one-year notice prior to the closure. (1)(e)(iii) of that
RCW provides that, after providing said closure notice, the landlord may compensate the tenant for the
assessed value of their mobile home and give them not less than 90 days to vacate. The tenant is still
obligated to pay rent until such vacation.
INTERACTION:
Options:
1. Renew leases for ___ number of years.
2. Decide to close the park, issue a closure notice of at least one year.
3. After issuance of closure notice, compensate tenants for assessed value of mobile homes and issue
written notice of at least 90 days to vacate.
The county could to 1, 1 and 2, or 1, 2, and 3.
It is possible that NWJP will re-file their lawsuit claiming fair housing act violations.
RECOMMENDATION:
None.
HANDLING:
None
LEAD STAFF:
Neil Caulkins