PALO ALTO (KRON) — It’s a somber day for many residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.
After two years of trying to fight it, the Palo Alto City Council voted to approve a request to sell the land that the city’s only mobile home park is on.
That decision by the city council means that residents like Tim Wood have only 30 days to find a new place to live.
With the high cost of living in Palo Alto, residents aren’t sure where they will go.
Tim Wood has lived at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park for the past 18 years.
He has no idea where he will move, or well his 400 neighbors will move.
Resident Sandra Tello says she can’t afford to stay in Palo Alto, but she doesn’t want to have to pull her kids out of the highly regarded Palo Alto school district.
The community in the 3900 block of El Camino is reportedly being closed to make way for a luxury apartment complex.
Attorneys for the landlord, the Jisser family, say that they are simply exercising their constitutional rights as property owners.
In the mobile home community, most of the residents own their mobile homes, but rent out space from the Jisser family.
The residents are being bought out, but many say it isn’t enough to stay in Palo Alto, or even the Bay Area.