Chino, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Control (2026)

Chino Municipal Code Chapter 2.68, Mobilehome Park Rent Regulation, traces to a 1978 voter-adopted rent stabilization ordinance and was substantially rewritten by Ord. 2001-07 in 2001. Section 2.68.010 recites the residents' findings behind it: a shortage of mobilehome spaces, no new parks built in the prior twenty years, rising space rents, and the high cost and difficulty of relocating a mobilehome once installed. The chapter's core limit is in Section 2.68.090(A): space rents may be increased annually by 'no more than sixty-six percent of the total percentage change in the CPI for the applicable CPI adjustment period,' calculated each calendar year from January 1 to December 31, with formula increases applied either to all rent-controlled spaces in a park or none.

Park owners or mobilehome owners who dispute a formula increase must file an appeal with the director of community development within thirty days, referred to the Mobilehome Park Rent Stabilization Commission for a final hearing under Section 2.68.100(C). Section 2.68.090(B) allows an additional vacancy increase of up to 20% of the then-current maximum rent when a space turns over voluntarily; if the prior tenant was evicted by court order or abandoned the space, the rent may instead be raised one time to the level charged on spaces exempt from rent control under Section 2.68.030.

Park owners may also apply under Section 2.68.090(C) for a 'fair return on investment' adjustment, evaluated under the multi-factor standards in Section 2.68.120, and may pass through the increased cost of new government-required services under Section 2.68.090(D) after 90 days' written notice, or add a 10% sublease surcharge under Section 2.68.090(D)(2). Section 2.68.030 exempts nonresidential spaces, parks run by federal, state, county or city government, short tenancies of 20 days or less, and spaces covered by a qualifying long-term lease under Civil Code § 798.17, though all spaces, exempt or not, must still be registered under Sections 2.68.040 and 2.68.050.

Before renting to a new mobilehome owner, Section 2.68.140 requires the park owner to hand over a copy of the ordinance, the Mobilehome Residency Law, a sample lease and rental agreement, park rules, and the prior occupant's rent history, and Section 2.68.140(C) bars any lease clause that purports to waive rent control. Section 2.68.160 creates a rebuttable presumption that an eviction filed within one year of a resident's rent-control complaint or petition is retaliatory.