American Canyon Settles Mobile Home Park Suit
AMERICAN CANYON (CBS/AP) -- The city of American Canyon will pay $575,000 to the owners of a local mobile home park to settle a lawsuit alleging the city violated federal fair housing laws.
The settlement announced Friday was approved by the City Council earlier this week.
The owners of Napa Olympia Mobilodge filed a federal lawsuit last year objecting to a city ordinance that would have prevented them from allowing families to move into the mobile home park, which many residents believed was a seniors-only facility.
On June 6, U.S. District Judge William Alsup found that American Canyon had violated the Fair Housing Act.
City Attorney William Ross tells the Times-Herald of Vallejo that some of the settlement money will serve as a credit toward the city's purchase of the park, if that can be negotiated over the next two years.
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