Friday, October 12, 2012

Goodbye Green, Sustainable Marin. Hello Development


The destruction of our precious Marin protected lands in the name of Smart Growth
 

a Citizen Marin affliate reports:

On October 23rd the Board Of Supervisors plans on approving a resolution to allow the County to approve Affordable Housing Projects within the Bay Lands Corridor, Ridge-line and Green-Belt locations, which are currently prohibited from any development.  
 
This resolution will also allow the County of Marin to approve Affordable Housing projects on site where no water or sewer services have been obtained.  Per my review of the new Marin County Housing Element there are 17 locations within the County being proposed for Future Affordable housing sites. 
 
Some of these sites being designated for future Affordable Housing within the New Housing Element currently do not have water and sewer services available or may have to located within the Bay Lands Corridor, Ridge-line and Green-Belt areas to meet the unit quantities needed to make these developments viable from a development point of view. 

In essence the BOS needs to approve this resolution to allow Affordable Housing into these environmentally protected areas in order to approve the new Marin County Housing Element and the Affordable Housing Projects contained within at the December 10th meeting.  

This October 16th meeting is the initial step necessary to allow for the Future Affordable Housing locations being approved in December. 

YOUR help is needed to oppose these permanent changes to our landscape.  Call your supervisor. Write the IJ. Talk to your neighbors. Vote.

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