RIA
Unaffordability
This is a follow-on to “Paradigm Shift: Rethinking Housing Affordability” and “Addressing the Infill, Low-Income Housing Challenge with Private Capital & the 103... … more »
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CVP
Dominican Valley Residents are Steaming Mad for Good Reason
Deep in the heart of Dominican Valley sits a unique and spectacular piece of property: one of the last remaining, large parcels of wilderness land in the Black Can... … more »
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HCD
RHNA Quotas, Unfunded Mandates, Buffer Sites, and the CA State Constitution
As more people wake up to the fact that new housing laws have forever changed the way our communities will grow and reduced the say California residents have in th... … more »
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Save Dominican Valley
A Community Effort to Save Dominican Valley
Nestled in the northeast foothills of Black Canyon sits a heavily wooded, almost 20-acre parcel of land filled with a majestic old-growth forest that runs up steep... … more »
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Keith Miner
Moving the goal posts to conceal housing policy failures
Every article we read these days about affordable housing legislation presents formulas about what percentage of new units need to conform to various percentages o... … more »
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Richardson Terrace
Public participation: A thing of the past?
In the past few months, Marin has seen several oversized, multifamily, “urban infill” projects sail through the approval process with little opposition by planning... … more »
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CVP
CVP Appeals Mill Valley Planning Commission Approval of Richardson Terrace
Community Venture Partners, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that works to bring the community’s voice to government decision-making, has filed the follow... … more »
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Richardson Terrace
The Richardson Terrace proposal fails to address Mill Valley's affordable housing needs
The following comments has been submitted to the Mill Valley Planning Commission, regarding the project known as “Richardson Terrace” at 575 E. Blithedale Avenue... … more »
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Cavagnero and Associates
Community Venture Partners challenges the legitimacy of the Richardson Terrace approval process
This is PART 4 in the series, "A Legacy of Flawed Housing Policy." Although its topic is a local project in Mill Valley, the issues discussed are relevant to the ... … more »
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Legacy Part 1
A Legacy of Flawed Housing Policy -- PART 1: The demise of local control
In the late 1990s, in Marin County, we started to hear rumblings about ‘regional governance’ and how the San Francisco Bay Area’s Association of Regional Governm... … more »