Northgate Mall and Marin Civic Center Neighborhoods to be over run with affordable housing

The Marinwood Priority Development Area is all land east of Las Gallinas.

Editor's Note: It is bad news to be named a Priority Development Area.  This will mean your neighborhood is targeted for complete complete change into an Urban Transit Oriented Development.  Both Marinwood and the Civic Center Mall Area have been named Priority Development Areas. The Northgate Mall is planned to have a "ring of 5 story affordable housing complexs"  Civic center near Autodesk will have many more lowrise blocks of government homes.  Naturally the neighbors are upset. Government actions have already severally impacted their property and home prices have plummeted.   

Our "leaders" are not listening.

 

We must act to demand their attention.

Our neighbors at QASSR are taking action. Below are excerpts from a note that I received today.

Should we be concerned less than our neighbors in San Rafael and Novato?

From QASSR ( Quiet and Safe San Rafael)

 

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE

 

The Civic Center Station area plan will FOREVER change north San Rafael. This area has been designated as a PDA (Priority Development Area) and approved by ABAG. This designation puts a bullseye on Civic Center for massive redevelopment. Over the next 20 to 30 years Civic Center will be rezoned to allow high density stack and pack housing at the highly dense 35+ units per acre. Many of these units will be designated as affordable units, which ranges from very low, low to moderate income based tax payer subsidized housing.

 

The mayor, councilors and town planners and council will tell you that NOTHING will change the look and feel of north San Rafael, but this is likely untrue!!! Lead council candidate Kate Colin made this chilling statement...

              "how when you have a plan like this, and buildings are built, certain compromises have to be made, implying that although our vision of preserving neighborhoods and the environment were all very well and good, they would be unheeded when push comes to shove. "

 

Once this plan goes through and they adopt the One Bay Area Sustainable communities strategy which is a regional blue print from ABAG we will be forced to follow the plan or else...

1.) ABAG will withhold transportation dollars from San Rafael and / or Marin and 2.) We will get sued by Social Justice groups to force very low and low income housing into our communities! Do NOT be fooled.  The city will rezone. The transformation will happen over time and by the time people start objecting it will be too late. As citizens of San Rafael you MUST put a stop to this wreckless planning that doesn't consider our community input. Get your friends to come and oppose this.

 

Come to our next meeting.  Volunteer to distribute fliers. Email everyone you know in town. We need to have a voice in our future!