There will be a hearing March 6 at 3:30 p.m. The court is being asked by the local mobile home park owners to do a pre-ballot review of our rent control initiative in an effort to keep it off the ballot.

In truth, I don’t know what the outcome will be. I have been thinking about the legal issues for months, but today, I want to talk about what is really going on, and what is at stake.

Fairgrounds Village Senior Park, my park, had been owned by a woman who occasionally raised the rent small amounts, as was her due. There was, I am told, little grousing among the tenants.

The park was sold and the new owners smelled blood: There is no rent control in Lake County, and, the elderly poor are pretty much defenseless, or so they imagined.

Moreover, the majority of the Board of Supervisors has been openly hostile to rent control, even though over 100 municipalities in California have rent control ordinances for mobile home parks.

And lastly, the tenants are captive: As a practical matter, mobile homes are not mobile. Our homes are on their land and can’t be moved. They raised the rents many times the increase in the cost of living index.

Let me be clear. Most of the park owners have been fair. In fact, unbelievably, a few of them signed our petition to put the initiative on the ballot! And, they will, under the initiative, be entitled to a cost of living increase automatically.

I don’t know how this case will be decided; clearly our initiative is not perfect, but the case law says it does not have to be.

I recently discovered that with 25 signatures I can have the California State Office of Legislative Counsel draw up a new version of the initiative, and, it will be airtight.

So, should we lose in court, like the Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger famously quipped, “I’ll be back.”

As long as you folks continue to show your overwhelming support, I will gather signatures.

And to the sharks swimming out there: You picked the wrong county. We don’t mind you making money, but not by gouging seniors.

Nelson Strasser lives in Lakeport, Calif. He is a member of “Save Our Seniors,” which gathered enough signatures to place senior mobile home park rent control initiatives on the June county ballot and the November Lakeport municipal ballot. The initiatives are being challenged in court by a coalition of Lake County mobile home park owners: http://bit.ly/1bqjVvq .