2000- 8500 Jobs in Lucas Valley according to Local Affordable Housing Advocates



The Driving Home Economic Recovery report will give us all a bad hair day.

Those darn housing advocates! They created the report Driving Home Economic Recovery
to claim 60% of all workers are forced to commute from other counties to work in Marin.  They massage statistics to create the illusion of "housing crisis" for thousands and it is our responsibility to build them for our workers.

No where do they ever cite how many citizens of Marin work in other counties. It might be embarassing. Over 80% of our citizens travel to other counties for work. Should San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo Counties build housing for OUR commuters?

Why do people who work in Marin live elsewhere?  Probably for the same reasons we live in Marin.  They may want to be close to their family and friends, a home with a backyard, better values elsewhere or other personal reasons.

If it wasn't worth the commute, why would workers want to work in Marin?

For a real laugh, look at the jobs map on page 4 of Driving Home Economic Recovery.  It claims that there are 400-1700 jobs per mile in Marinwood-Lucas Valley.  That means that they are estimating 2000-8500 jobs  for our 5 square miles!  We only have 6000 residents in 2500 homes.

Unless their is a secret underground factory hidden in Big Rock , these housing advocates are lying with statistics to get funding  and political support for low income housing.

Of course we know better. We know that we are a bedroom community and have few jobs.  The housing advocates are selling the lies to the Board of Supervisors and ABAG to  justify the ridiculous housing allocation for Marinwood-Lucas Valley. The Board of Supervisors converted all land east of  Las Gallinas to 101 as Marinwood Priority Development Area for urban style development. Our population is expected to grow by at least 25%.  They have put 83% of all low income housing for all of unincorporated Marin in our backyards.

They hope you won't find out. They hope you won't complain or speak out. They hope to dazzle us with slick pictures, promises of gardens and fountains.  

They won't tell us that our new low income neighbors will be heavily subsidized by us.  We will have to build more schools, fire stations, hire more teachers, police and fire, have more pollution, crime, traffic and other urban problems. 

This is it.  This is your time to protect your home and community.  Get involved. Fight the lies. Stand up for our future.