After its summer break, the Thousand Oaks City Council was to have public hearings concerning two mobile home parks. Now one hearing will take place, but the other has been postponed.

The City Council is scheduled to conduct a public hearing next week to address an appeal to the planning commission’s decision denying the subdivision of Vallecito Mobile Home Estates in Newbury Park.

The council was also set to hear an appeal by Conejo Mobile Home Park at 1200 Newbury Road, but that public hearing was postponed until a court rules on litigation brought against the city by owners of that mobile home park.

When the council meets Tues., Sept. 8 after a hiatus in August, it will be asked to decide whether to overturn the planning commission’s ruling last June regarding Vallecito. Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the subdivision of 303 mobile home park units at 1251 Old Conejo Road into property that could be sold individually.

The owner of the park brought the appeal to the City Council and litigation against the city after being denied approval to convert the senior park from rental to individual resident ownership.

After the ruling, Planning Commissioner Al Adam said since the majority of the residents didn’t want the conversion and only four residents did, it wasn’t a bona fide resident conversion. He also said the commission was unable to analyze the impact a conversion would have on residents because the owner wouldn’t say how much the parcels would be sold for.

Many of the Vallecito residents are senior citizens who live on fixed incomes.

The property is designated Mobile Home Exclusive and is zoned Trailer Park Development. The park comes under the 1980 Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance that restricts rents. The restrictions on increasing rents would end if the conversion goes through and one of the lots is sold.

The owner of Conejo Mobile Home Park is also appealing to the City Council to overturn a planning commission ruling. Owners of both the Vallecito and Conejo mobile home parks hope to change the affordable housing into something more profitable.

In June, the planning commission voted 32 to deny an application to close Conejo Mobile Home Park and reduce the amount paid to relocate residents. The park’s owner, Joseph Bednar, said he wants to build medical buildings on the property.

The City Council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Scherr Forum Theatre, City Hall, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.

The public is invited to attend and to speak at the hearing.

Anyone challenging the decision of the City Council in court may be limited to the issues raised at the public hearing.