The owner of the Eden Gardens park, Preston Cook of Corte Madera, represented by Carlsbad law firm The Loftin Group, sued the city last year after the council imposed a one-year moratorium prohibiting the conversion of the parks to resident ownership.

That moratorium was set to end May 8. City officials said they had needed a year's time to study how their own longstanding mobile home protections fit into the state's rapidly changing laws on the same issues.

They came back recently with a plan that pleases most mobile home advocates, but irritates park owners because it forces them to provide each resident extensive information about a park property before asking the park's population if they agree to convert.

The additional information on inspection reports, rental rate history and other costs, city officials say, helps residents analyze the "true impacts of the conversion" before they are asked to make a decision on it. But park owners say some of the price information is not relevant and can't really be known at the early part of the conversion process.

A crowd of mobile home residents clapped and cheered at the end of the meeting when the council voted to uphold the proposed new ordinance. Further litigation from park owners is expected to follow.