Is it possible to delete MobileBackups and start over?

I believe that I have inadvertently messed up the classification of my MobileBackups folder. I have a 500 GB SSD that is nearly full when MobileBackups is included. This is true whether the information comes from the Finder, Disk Utility or doing 'df -h' from the terminal. Also, when I look at the storage from System Information, all of the disk space used by MobileBackups is incorrectly classified as 'Other'. I have tried getting rid of MobileBackups by doing 'sudo tmutil disablelocal', and leaving the machine for some time, but this seems to have no effect. One of the additional symptoms that something is wrong is that Carbon Copy Cloner is no longer able to clone my disk because the external disk runs out of space. In reality, I have less than 250 GB used on my disk, but because MobileBackups is being included, it appears that I have 470 GB used. I would appreciate any information on how to safely remove MobileBackups and have it properly classified.
Here is the current storage information:
Filesystem                         Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2                       466G 436G   29G 94% /
localhost:/Sx9aylpulB9Fbuo8AtUDPS 466G 466G     0 100% /Volumes/MobileBackups
My system info:
MacBook Pro, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB RAM
OS X 10.9.4
500 GB SSD
Thanks for any help,
Charles

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