By Larry Salzman in The Orange County Register

April 22, 2016

It shouldn’t require a team of lawyers and tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses just to replace an aging mobile home with a new, substantially identical one in a mobile home park. But that has become the reality for individuals with mobile homes on the California coast, where they must first get a permit from an aggressive and increasingly unlawful California Coastal Commission.

Among the victims are Eric Wills and his family, who have enjoyed the Capistrano Shores Mobile Home Park in San Clemente as a second home for more than a decade. It’s an enviable spot: They have an unobstructed ocean view and a beach that lies just beyond the seawall that protects theirs’ and their neighbors’ mobile homes. That seawall, protecting the mobile home park since 1960, has become a battlefield.

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