Waterville city councilors unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on lot rent increases for mobile home park residents.

City officials said the ordinance is in response to a 20% rent increase at two parks that was set to go into effect in October, after lot rent went up 22% the year before.

Joe Lemieux lives in Countryside Park, where he said the rent was supposed to reach $600 a month this fall.

"The majority of the people who live in these trailer parks are in the lower end of the income, working people," he told Waterville city councilors at a meeting earlier this week. "Several of us are retirees on a fixed income. Several of us that are on a fixed income had to go take a second job to pay for these things."

Waterville officials say the moratorium is intended to protect reside

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