Granat v. Keasler

This appeal raises the issue of the constitutionality of Seattle ordinance 109280 § 3, regulating the eviction of floating home tenants from their moorages. The City of Seattle initially enacted a houseboat ordinance, 107012, in December 1977, prohibiting the eviction of houseboats under certain circumstances and providing for nonbinding arbitration of moorage rents. Section 2(6) of the original ordinance explicitly provided there could be no eviction unless

The floating home owner is directed by the moorage owner to remove his or her home from its moorage site by a written notice given at…