County of Marin
Marin Voice: Cost of Housing in our County has Become Obscene
I have met a number of Marin residents facing homelessness. One works full-time while also caring for her developmentally disabled son. Another pays more in rent than her entire monthly income, watching her savings shrink monthly. These residents are in their 70s. They are scared, angry and feel betrayed by their community. They do not match the stereotypes of the homeless.
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of October 21
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Read MoreMarin IJ’s Jeff Burkhart: Meet the Man Behind the Smash Hit Corner Bar – Jason Sims
The partners’ ultimate vision for Corner Bar is to “blend the authentic charm of a neighborhood bar with the sultriness of a cocktail lounge. We want to celebrate the best of both worlds and infuse a new late night energy to downtown Mill Valley.” Corner Bar’s central location near Sweetwater Music Hall, the Throckmorton Theatre, and Mill Valley Film Festival makes it the ideal destination for pre-show or post-show drinks and bites.
Read MoreRotary Club of MV Hosted an Informative City Council Candidate Forum, Featuring Five Candidates Seeking One of 3 Seats on the Council – MV Chamber and League of Women Voters Provided Support
Rotary Club of MV Hosted an Informative City Council Candidate Forum, Feat. Five Candidates Seeking One of 3 Seats on the Council – MV Chamber and League of Women Voters Provided Support
Read MoreBarely a Year Since Safeway Debuted a Beautifully Remodeled Store in Strawberry Village, It Did So Again this Month at Safeway @ Camino Alto – With a $3,000 Donation to Kiddo!
Safeway at Camino Alto made a $3,000 donation to Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of October 14
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Read MoreCounty’s Hopes for an Innovative Proposal to Split Marin City Affordable Housing Between 150 Shoreline Hwy. in Tam Junction & 825 Drake Ave. in Marin City Hits a Legal Hurdle
What remains murky, however, is what the practical effect will be on the project, if Freccero sticks with his tentative ruling. “I had lots of questions before, and I still have them,” Freccero said. “I’m trying to understand what happens next.” Over $30 million dollars in tax-exempt bonds to finance the project have already been sold. Save Our City, an advocacy group, filed suit in May 2023 to void the Marin County Board of Supervisors’ 3-2 decision in March 2023 to approve the issuance of up to $40 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds for use in underwriting the planned building at 825 Drake Ave.
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of October 7
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Read MoreSacramento Bee: With a 7.40 Rating, Marin Would be the 7th Happiest Nation in the World, Between the Netherlands and Canada, if it Were its Own Country
“We find that happiness is aligned with specific quality of life ratings. In particular, jobs, leisure, and housing,” Baldassare said, according to the report. “In our polling, we also looked at personal finance. But the biggest change we’ve seen over time has been satisfaction with jobs, which went from 52% saying they were very satisfied in our first polling to 31% today.” Other polling, by Gallup, asked Californians to rate their satisfaction of life from 1 to 10. A research team from the University of Oxford then compiled all 215,801 responses into a map of the state, broken down by county.
Read MoreDick Spotswood: Marin Must Face Change as Housing, Traffic Challenges Persist
“There are benefits to a workforce that isn’t compelled to commute daily from East Bay counties with lower housing prices. Having grocery store cashiers, teachers, police officers and firefighters who live and work in the towns they serve outweighs any conceived downsides. Traffic is a plague common to all prosperous suburbs. We’re in fantasyland if we believe that congestion on Highway 101 and Marin’s east-west boulevards will ever evaporate.”
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