El Dorado Palm Springs, Ltd. v. Rent Review Commission

This case involves a dispute between the owner/operator of a Palm Springs mobilehome park (the petitioner below and the respondent herein—referred to hereinafter as El Dorado) and the residents of that mobilehome park (the real parties in interest below and the appellants herein—referred to hereinafter as the residents). The gist of the dispute concerns the application of the Palm Springs municipal rent-control laws by the Palm Springs Rent Review Commission (the respondent below—referred to hereinafter as the Commission) to the space rents to be charged in that mobilehome park.

The residents appeal from an order of the trial court, which order granted El Dorado’s petition for a writ of mandate to compel the Commission to approve El Dorado’s application for a hardship rent increase. By their appeal, the residents have called upon us to rework the fertile fields of contention which we first plowed in Palacio de Anza v. Palm Springs Rent Review Com. (1989) 209 Cal.App.3d 116 [ 257 Cal.Rptr. 121 ] (hereinafter Palacio). We conclude that the trial court’s order is correct in all respects, and we consequently affirm the same.

Facts

On April 8, 1980, the citizens of the City…