Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Supervisor's "Perfect Solution" for Affordable Housing.


Is there really a need to build 71% of all low income housing for Unicorporated Marin in Marinwood-Lucas Valley?

According to Supervisors Kinsey, Sears, Rice, Arnold and Adams,  the answer is "Yes".

Our population in Marinwood-Lucas Valley is 6094 according to the census or approximately 2% of Marin County  .  Our land area is 5.73 square miles or  about .06 of the total land mass of the County of Marin. 

Why do we get stuck with all the low income housing?  Simple.  The NIMBY supervisors want us to have it. 

Although they claim that they also have low income housing in Southern Marin, they conveniently leave out the fact that most of it is very small senior complexes that don't impact the schools and social services like the large family complexes they want to build in our neighborhood.

The Supervisors hope to win millions of dollars in federal and state  grant funds for following the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) housing quotas.

Nice. They sell out Marin County.  Concentrate development in the politically weakest districts like Unincorporated Marin and they win the big dollars. Our guess is much will be spent in Southern Marin on multimillion dollar bike tunnels, SMART improvements, trolley cars, consultants and expensive studies.


Where is our neighbor Supervisor Adams in all this?  For the past ten years she has been serving in ABAG even becoming the Vice President in 2010.   We were even quietly named a "Priority Development Area" for urbanization in 2007.  Can anyone recall of a public announcement heralding this "accomplishment"?

It is clear,  that the Supervisors are in violation of State Housing code 65583 by concentrating so much housing in a single sliver of land known as Marinwood-Lucas Valley. 

Speak up.  It's your home. It's your future.




2 comments:

  1. I heard from a neighbor, while out walking my dog near the Rotary Field, that "plans are underway" to put 66 units at that location off Lucas Valley road between Huckleberry and the Big Rock Deli. My neighbor claimed it was already in the EIR phase. This would indicate that things have moved forward since the October 2012 estimation of 60 proposed units. Does anyone have more information on this?

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  2. Yes there are even more projects in the works that the five low income apartments mentioned. There are two complexes at Big Rock Deli and across the street. The county has been curiously mute about Rotary Field. Either some plan is afoot or some political power may be halting development.

    We live in a democracy. They should not be allowed to get away with steamrolling the community.

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