Yee

In previous appeals (Yee v. Mobilehome Park Rental Review Bd. (1993) 17 Cal.App.4th 1097 [ 23 Cal.Rptr.2d 1 ] and Yee v. Mobilehome Park Rental Review Bd. (July 12, 1995) D022341 [nonpub. opn.]), plaintiffs John and Irene Yee, owners of two contiguous mobilehome parks in the City of Escondido which are subject to rent control, successfully argued in this court (after having petitions for mandate denied in the superior court) that rent control decisions made by the Escondido Mobilehome Park Rental Review Board (Board) were not adequately supported by the evidence which had been received in hearings before the Board.

In the first appeal, we reversed the board’s decision to permit only a $27.50 increase in monthly rent per space, finding it was not supported by substantial evidence (Yee v. Mobilehome Park Rental Review Bd., supra, 17 Cal.App.4th at p. 1105 ), and we remanded the matter, directing that the superior court mandate the Board to conduct a new rent increase hearing. (Id. at p. 1111.)

In Yee v. Mobilehome Park Rental Review Bd., supra, D022341, we reversed the Board’s decision to permit only a $40 monthly rental increase, and because the Board had twice failed to…