SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 29
SECTION A
APRIL 19, 2019
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COURTS: City can take steps
to protect mobile home owners
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
In the weeks since Keizertimes
last reported on the plight of
rent-burdened residents in a
manufactured home park, the
underlying issues involving
predatory park owners made
national headlines.
In a recent episode of Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver,
the titular host spent 15 minutes
exposing the double-talk of one
park owner, but the program
also suggested a solution to
the matter: granting the home
owners in manufactured home
parks the fi rst right-of-refusal
when a park comes up for sale.
The question is: which
government entity has the
power to grant such protections?
The answer might be closer
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Keizer
City
Attorney
Shannon Johnson declined to
offer an offi cial opinion on
the matter, but pointed the
paper in the direction of a
2010 decision from the Oregon
Court of Appeals, Thunderbird
Mobile Club, LLC. v. City of
Wilsonville.
The dispute at the heart of
the lawsuit involved the city’s
attempt to impose closure and
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sale requirements on the owner
of Thunderbird Mobile Home
Club as the owner attempted
to sell it for a different type
development.
The city passed ordinances
that required any owner of a
manufactured home park to
provide 180 days notice of a
park closure, a plan for where
the park tenants could move
their homes and a payment
toward moving expenses.
The
Wilsonville
City
Council based the action on
a desire to preserve affordable
housing and lessen the resulting
losses for homeowners when a
park is closed.
The owner of Thunderbird
countered that the ordinances
were in confl ict with state
regulations and amounted
to an unconstitutional, and
uncompensated, taking of
property and money.
The opinion of the court,
authored by former Justice
Anthony Sercombe found in
favor of the city, a decision that
would seem to grant authority
to the Keizer City Council to
enact something along the lines
of a fi rst right-of-refusal.
“We conclude that the
adoption of the city’s authority
was within the city’s authority
… and that the ordinances were
not preempted by state statutes,”
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
An issue that arose at a
Keizer Parks Advisory Board
meeting rocketed to the top
of the Keizer City Council’s
agenda six days later.
Members of the Parks
Board recommended the
council reassess a decision
to turn a caretaker’s home
in Keizer Rapids Park into a
rental home. The choice to
end the caretaker program
didn’t sit well with Richard
Walsh, a former city council-
or and attorney, who warned
the council against getting
involved with a renter given
recent action in the Oregon
Legislature to enact protec-
tions against evictions.
“There’s four named rea-
sons to kick somebody out …
It’s like fi ring a city employee.
It’s a big process,” Walsh told
the council. However, Walsh
said, a park caretaker or host
would be exempt from those
eviction protections.
The reasons landlords can
evict under the new protec-
tions include: plans to demol-
ish a unit and convert it to
non-residential use; planning
to repair an unsafe property;
the landlords’ family plans to
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McNary grad, double amputee
celebrates release of memoir
he was ran over by a semi-truck. But despite
BY MATT RAWLINGS
being a double-amputee for the majority of his
Of the Keizertimes
As a double-amputee, Kacey McCallister has life, it never has stopped the former McNary
endured challenges of all kinds over the course athlete from living to the fullest.
In high school, McCallister won a district
of his life, and he has tackled them all with a
title in cross country and two district titles in
fi ghting and resilient spirit that is rare to fi nd.
wrestling. He also placed fourth
Now, he can add the chal-
at state in the 103-pound divi-
lenge of writing a book to his
sion.
list of incredible accomplish-
In 2011, McCallister was
ments.
inducted into the National
The book is called When Life
Wrestling Hall of Fame and
Gets You Down, RISE UP, and
was a recipient of the Medal of
on April 1, McCallister’s fi n-
Courage — which is an honor
ished product hit the shelves at
presented annually to a wres-
Barnes & Noble.
tler or former wrestler who has
“I wanted to share my life
overcome what appears to be
and my experiences, but more
insurmountable challenges and
than anything, I wanted to in-
provides inspiration to others.
fl uence people’s lives through
But the 32-year old wasn’t
this book,” McCallister said.
done conquering the physical
“But the book really isn’t about
me. It’s about what other people
— Kacby McCallistbr world quite yet. After success-
fully completing several mara-
can do regardless of their cir-
thons, McCallister decided to
cumstances and rising up when
get into Spartan racing — which is a series of
stuff gets hard.”
It’s hard to look at McCallister’s life and see races that feature different obstacle courses that
it as nothing less than an inspiration. He lost his vary in length and diffi culty.
legs at the age of six after a car accident where
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through this
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