Welcome to your New Family Home at Wonderful Marinwood Village!

The Toxic Avenger from the film The Toxic Avenger

For years and years, it is alleged that the dry cleaner who leased at Marinwood Plaza, dumped toxic waste down his drain and over the fence behind his store.   The Marinwood Plaza site is now contaminated at unacceptable levels according to state laws.  Although some mitigation measures have taken place the toxic waste site is far from clean. According to State regulators the damage is much greater than previously reported.

The "brownfield" contaminated site now extends under the freeway on ramp and clear across to the east side next to the Silveira ranch.  To properly clean the site,  hundreds of cubic yards of soil will need to be cleaned, replaced and sealed to prevent further environmental damage and to make it safe for human habitation. The containment is PCE which breaks down into multiple toxic compounds. It is now illegal for use in California.

The site is also home to two high power microwave transmission towers

on the southeast corner of the property. 

Microwaves are also a known health hazard

All hidden behind a 16 foot soundwall barrier that will reduce traffic noise

but still subject inhabitants to roadway pollutants.

Would you choose to move your family to Marinwood Village?

We MUST insist that Bridge Housing do a full Environmental Review and treat toxic waste to the highest levels of safety.  We will not allow a "negative declaration" to avoid rigorous review.

If you care about the community, you will care about the health of the residents, the quality of Dixie schools and the financial integrity of the Marinwood Village proposal

Speak up for your rights and your community!

NEW and IMPROVED Microwave Towers blast Marinwood Village Residents!

October 1, 2014- Sprint has just recently applied to place MORE MICROWAVE transmission facilities next to the Marinwood Village property at 190 Marinwood Avenue.  This tower will be literally yards away from living units housing pregnant women and small children.  Where is the outrage from Susan Adams, Nursing PHD or the housing activists?  Do they actually care for the health of the future residents  of Marinwood Village!?   see THIS

Families living in proposed Marinwood Plaza will have two high powered microwave antennas literally yards away from their home.  Would you want to live here?



High powered Microwave transmissions are a known health risk.

The FCC has strict safety warnings for workers and people close to microwave transmission towers.

 Two microwave towers on the property, the one on the right is disguised as a redwood tree

 

 

There are actually TWO HIGH POWERED MICROWAVE transmission towers on the South end of the Marinwood Plaza property that will be literally yards away from bedrooms of small children and pregnant woman.  Any cell phone user is aware of microwave interference with radio waves. We are asked to turn off our cellphones on airplanes and in hospitals.  People with pacemakers are asked to avoid being too close microwave ovens.

If you wouldn't move your family next to these towers, why would you allow Bridge Housing to develop here?

For more information on potentional health risks from microwave radiation: Cell Tower Dangers

If we truly care about our new neighbors, why would we ask them to live so close to the dangers of the pollution near the freeway and microwave towers?

Clearly, some people have different agendas than "helping" the working poor.

If the doublespeak,  the distortions,  the hidden agendas,  and  secret meetings concerning the Marinwood Village development proposal upset you,  please join us to Save Mariwood. Come to our meetings on Mondays .

We can have a better future for our community.

Life is Good in Marinwood/Lucas Valley

 

Candidate Debates "Microwave Towers at Marinwood Village and Health Risks "

For more on Toxic Waste, Politics and Greed go HERE

Ten Reasons why the Marinwood Village plan should be rejected

"Nah! Nah!  I'm not listening!"

 "The enemies of reason have a certain blind look."-from the film the Duelists

1.) The Dixie schools are at capacity and the affordable housing project pays almost no taxes to pay for the 60-150 school children at $10,000 per child per year from K to 12.  We receive little state funding and cannot afford the increase. We Dixie school district taxpayers will be forced to pay for an additional $600,000 to $1,500,000 annually.

2.) Bridge housing will not contribute  a fair share of costs of the impacts to Dixie Schools. They will be required to pay only $200,000 for new building, yet schools will need 3-6 portable classrooms which will cost anywhere from $300,000 to $900,000. The new portables will steal space from parking and play areas.

3.)  Marinwood Ave will have to be narrowed at taxpayer expense of $1,000,000 plus.  The narrow road will render the Dixie school bus yard impractical and may need to be moved at additional taxpayer expense. Residents will undoubtedly need to park in the neighborhoods and surrounding streets.

4.) Marinwood Market will have difficulty surviving with crowded parking especially on weekend shopping days when residents will be home.  The market receives a generous subsidy now but is under no long term obligation to stay.  The market must be profitable to survive or the community will lose the it's ONLY grocery store.

5.) More police, fire and government services will be required.  Hamilton has seen a substantial increase in crime with similar high density housing which is 100% affordable.  Lower density housing with  a maximum 20% affordable housing tends to promote social stability. Large affordable housing projects were abandoned in the 1960s as failures because they tended to become islands of poverty with negative social results.  Why should we repeat a failed affordable housing scheme? For a comparison of crime rates in Marin see www.crimereports.com . 

6.) The location next to a busy freeway and two high powered microwave antennas is unhealthful and unsuitable for families with pregnant woman and young children. Major university studies on the effects of pollution and microwave transmission indicate higher rates of autism, cancer and other disease. If we truly care for people in need, we should care where we house them.  More suitable locations away from the freeway should be chosen.

7.) Marinwood / Lucas Valley will permanently lose the only viable location for a successful retail center to supply the community with fresh food.  It abuts the 101 freeway where 8 million tourists and commuters travel yearly to Sonoma and Napa counties.  West Marin tourism is largely undeveloped yet shows great promise.  Thousands of bicycle trips start in Marinwood each year. The "cheese road" has become a popular destination for weekend travelers.  Marinwood Plaza could become the family friendly"gateway to West Marin" with organic foods, cycling shop, restaurants and farmers market much like www.oxbowmarket.com . The county could invest the tax revenue to support affordable housing.

8.)  Our taxes will surely increase across the board.  Taxpayers will subsidize the Marinwood Village affordable housing project  during its 55 year tax free existence.  Millions of dollars will needed from their middle class neighbors who are currently reeling from a declining real estate market,  increases in Federal, State and local taxes.  We cannot afford this "affordable housing scheme"

9.) The Marinwood Village scheme has not received meaningful input from the community. Political insiders or so-called "neighborhood leaders" met secretly behind closed doors to discuss the proposal for the fake "public process" .  The wider community is largely unaware of the projects existence or the effects on the community. Fewer still are aware that Marinwood Village is only the first of five projects plus the rezoning of the community into an urban style "Transit Village".

10) A successful affordable housing project can win public support if and only when meaningful public dialogue, wise land use, environmental, financial and social concerns are met. If the supervisors approve this project without community support, it can expect a strong political backlash and full rejection of the housing scheme in its entirety.

"If you are not angry

then you are not paying attention"

 Marinwood Village is the first of five housing projects that will grow our community 25%.  One in five  Marinwood/Lucas Valley residents will be living in government supported projects if the projects are built as planned.  Additional rezoning for high density housing for private development will transform Marinwood/Lusas Valley into a Transit Oriented Village into "Daly City North".

Is this the future you want?

Save Marinwood/Lucas Valley!