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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MarinCourt.org
CVP v Goliath and “friends”
Having challenged the County of Marin in a number of legal proceedings over the past five years, we’ve come to expect that there are apparently no tactics too lo... … more »
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CVP
A Crack in the dam? County cures flawed Sir Francis Drake Boulevard FEIR in 11th hour
Since December of 2017, when the Marin County Department of Public Works released the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Rehabil... … more »
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R.Tong
County attempts to avoid analysis of traffic congestion on Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
In the summer of 2014, Marin County planners began investigating a proposal to rehabilitate Sir Francis Drake Boulevard from the Highway 101 interchange to Kentfie... … more »
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Marin County
Keynote address at the California Grand Jurors' Association Annual Luncheon
The following is an expanded version of a recent presentation before the California Grand Jurors' Association. The Marin County Grand Jury does a great job of ex... … more »
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CVP
Marin 2016 - Part X: Endgame
I began this series by talking about how the failures of local representative government lead directly to bad decision-making and unsustainable community impacts. ... … more »
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CVP
Marin 2016 - Part IX: Regionalism
"A man who hasn't decided what is enough is lost forever." As the pressure to “grow our way out of our problems” builds, the consequences of our government’s head... … more »
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CVP
Marin 2016 - Part VIII: Hide the ball
Perhaps, the greatest planning failure in Marin is the conscious decision by staff and elected representatives to ignore the cumulative impacts of development proj... … more »
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CVP
Marin 2016 - Part VII: What will you do when Marin is no longer Marin?
With the June elections in Marin behind us and with community-advocate candidates, who challenged incumbents, having been defeated citizen organizations and watchd... … more »
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CVP
Marin 2016 – Part VI: Dispatches from the front – Marin County Government
Sometimes, when all other remedies have been exhausted, residents are forced to take legal action to ensure that local government is functioning properly. However,... … more »