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DEI & Housing Headlines
- IJ Editorial: The County wants to lease 2,713 sq. feet at the Manzanita Rec Center, but the owner, the Marin City Community Services District, wants to be able terminate the lease if funding becomes available to rebuild the center.
- SMART outlines 5-year agenda, but tax uncertainty looms
- Marin completes process for $18M homelessness grant
- Marin boosts minimum pay for contractors, caregivers
- Northgate theater closes, raising questions about housing plan
- Marin altruist helps furnish homes of newly housed veterans
- Prop 6: California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor
- San Rafael approves contracts for homelessness funding
- Bay Area allotted $170M in homelessness funds
- San Rafael planners release final mall redevelopment EIR
- Marin Housing Authority moves closer to Golden Gate Village revamp
- Marin transportation agency considers $12M in project outlays
- San Rafael planning effort looks to elevate Latino voices
- Bay Area job gains in September produce nearly half of state’s growth
- Editorial: As funding paths emerge, SMART must continue to build public support
- Marin student scores mostly flat overall in latest state test results
- Marin exhibit highlights artistic visions of inmates
- Marin schools prioritize AI literacy ahead of state mandate
- Marin lawsuit over supermarket prices settles for $4M
- Marin Jewish community commemorates Hamas attack on Israel
- Marin County issues final report on homeless count
- San Rafael opens authorized camp for homeless
- MacKenzie Scott donates $30 million to Bay Area affordable housing nonprofit
- California’s housing policies haven’t always been very effective. Could these new laws give them teeth?
- Marin City protesters rally against housing construction
- Marin Transit prepares for Clipper transfer discount program in April
- California Will Formally Apologize for Being Complicit in Slavery
- Marin, Sonoma agencies prepare to start bike-share program
- Marin supervisors outline stances on state propositions
- Costs balloon for Marin workforce housing projects
- ‘Insulting’: Marin commissioners rebuke planners over housing control
- San Rafael nears pivotal votes on mall housing plan
- Strawberry housing development EIR faulted by project critics
- Marin supervisors add $5M to workforce housing outlay
- Editorial: Prop. 2 fails to fix broken California school bond program. Vote no.
- This wealthy Bay Area community just blew past its housing mandate
- California gives schools homework assignment: Build housing for teachers
- Marin supervisors approve financing for senior housing complex
- Developer proposes 240-unit senior housing
- Dick Spotwood: Marin needs more ‘alternative’ housing like mobile-home parks
- Marin history: Vivalon celebrates 70 years
- Tamalpais Union school district adds support for students of color
- Sausalito Marin City School District marks ‘joyful’ 1st day
- Santa Venetia property eyed for 62-townhome development
- San Rafael housing plan size rattles Dominican University
- New Marin music nonprofit aims to boost after-school programs
- Marin Voice: Compassion, collaboration needed for encampments
- Marin City songwriting workshop explores inclusion
- Marin planners release Strawberry development study
- San Rafael apartment plan switches to seniors’ housing
- Costco’s bold new plan for the California housing crisis
- Marin Voice: Affordable housing is basic human right, economic imperative
- Are tiny homes a cost-effective solution for homelessness? A Bay Area nonprofit thinks so
- Marin revises building limits on environmentally sensitive areas
- New Marin partnership aims to break barriers to homeownership
- Not (officially) in my backyard: Illegal California ADUs outpacing permitted ones
- Dick Spotswood: ‘Local control’ housing groups eye developers’ market-rate equation
- Editorial: Marin bike advocates’ push for North-South Greenway is paying off
- Dick Spotswood: ‘Local control’ housing groups eye developers’ market-rate equation
- One of every five new homes built in California last year was an ADU
- Marin homeless population decreases nearly 3% in new count
- Upcoming state audit targets California’s housing mandates –Cities say state regulators are slow to review required housing plans, leading to potential penalties
- Marin Voice: County needs strategy to stop older-adult homelessness
- California housing developers win first ‘builders remedy’ battles in fight to bypass local zoning
- San Rafael OKs urgency law to halt evictions in Canal area
- Tamalpais High School investigates students over bigoted photo
- California pro-housing bills clash with coastal protections — again
Mill Valley police: Swastikas sprayed on Ukraine flags
- Editorial: San Rafael gets clearer idea on needs for those living in encampments
- San Rafael mall submits expanded redevelopment proposal
- Belvedere board advances alternative plan for housing complex
- A developer proposing a four-story, 117-apartment residential care center in Strawberry has taken another step forward in the process to launch his project.
- Libraries are a good place to narrow Marin’s digital divide
- Marin zoning changes could significantly increase housing density
- Bill From Damon Connolly would boost housing-focused community land trusts
- San Quentin’s $240M Revamp to Focus on Rehabilitation, End Death Row in California
- If done correctly, all can save on utility bills by creating income-based charges
- SF Yimby: Affordable Housing Approved For One Hamilton Drive
- Marin Voice: ‘Opportunity zones’ paving the way for displacement, not prosperity
- Mill Valley commission begins rezoning for housing influx
- Dick Spotswood: Bay Area public transit agencies should be consolidated by mode
- Marin jurisdictions face rezoning deadline for housing edict
- Marin short-term rental ordinance heads to California Coastal Commission
- Newsom OK’d a minimum wage increase for health care workers. Now he wants to delay it
- Marin property owners to get ADU planning aid
- Higher utility bills coming — again — after new PG&E rate request
- Marin Voice: West Marin vacation rentals are tied to funds promoting affordable housing
- Californians’ PG&E bills to rise nearly $400 a year in 2024
- Marin allocates $1M toward land trust for housing
- Marin County on track to streamline ADUs
- Marin Voice: Mill Valley’s 1 Hamilton would further fair housing commitment
- Marin Voice: Apparent bias fuels East Mill Valley group’s housing lawsuit against city
- Marin Voice: Residents of Marin City continue to be left out of housing discussions
- Has Alameda’s new deal hacked the opposition to Bay Area housing construction?
- You can earn $100,000 a year in these Bay Area counties and still be ‘low-income’
- Marin Voice: Mill Valley needs affordable housing now, wherever it fits
- California has 11 of largest housing shortages in US, study says
- Editorial: In order for Marin to see how well they work, ADU hurdles must be cleared
- Helping San Quentin inmates get an education – and a future
- Mill Valley developer seeks ‘builder’s remedy’ project in Fairfax
- Marin jurisdictions might alter inclusionary zoning housing policies
- Marin’s mandated housing: Much planned, little ‘affordable’ Marin cities risk ‘builder’s remedy’ over housing plan delays
- California Voice: The next phase of housing reforms is climate-safe ownership
COVID-19 & Impacts
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Trump presidency casts shadow over Marin health care, social services
- Tiburon eyes $1.4M grant for shoreline project
- PG&E says power shutoffs likely as Bay Area braces for critical fire weather conditions
- Regional transportation committee eyes 2026 ballot measure for Bay Area transit funding, but safety concerns remain
- Bay Area Voice: California law could shut down the market for stolen retail goods
- Marin homeowners grapple with fire insurance cancellations
- Marin COVID-19 count swells for summer
- Marin health leaders say COVID-19 helped fortify system
- Marin loosens COVID-19 quarantine restrictions
- Marin health officials report spread of JN.1 coronavirus variant
- Dick Spotswood: Marin should be removed from Bay Area transportation tax proposal
- Napa, Marin, Sonoma counties retain pandemic-era ‘parklets’ as permanent fixtures
- Spotswood: San Francisco commute numbers aren’t bouncing back so far
- San Rafael advances new outdoor dining regulations
- Spotswood: With some adjustments, dining parklets should be permanent
- San Rafael approves outdoor dining program
- Tiburon businesses seek downtown modifications
- Novato looks to allow more downtown parklets
- Tiburon takes deeper look at downtown street closure program
- IJ Columnist: Future Should Be About People, Not Cars
- Dick Spotswood: Voters just gave everyone at MMWD a clear message
- Fairfax approves fees for parklet program
- Marin group spawned from COVID mandates backs school board, municipal candidates
- Vicki Larson: We are living in the worst-case scenario
- Marin reckons with state law removing racial covenants
- Marin County struggling to recruit, retain employees
- Larkspur council to consider design standards for parklets
- How San Francisco North Bay restaurants are tackling inflation pressures
- Sausalito extends Caledonia Street outdoor dining program
Wildfires, Health & Climate Change
- PG&E wants another hike in residential rates, this time to help the investor-owned utility meet demand for new housing, commercial real estate and healthcare projects
- SMART completes key San Rafael path segment
- Marin environmental leaders brace for Trump restoration
- How Democrats are making a billion-dollar push to decarbonize California’s ports amid Trump’s return
- Bay Area inflation eases up — but electricity and gas utility costs soar
- MMWD orders environmental studies for spillway project
- Marin City marks beginning of flood-control project
- A Marin County judge issued a tentative ruling that would prevent the MMWD from launching pilot programs expanding bike access on Mount Tamalpais because of environmental concerns
- Governor hopes order curbs soaring bills from PG&E, other utilities – PG&E bills are rising three times as fast as Bay Area inflation rate
- Marin reservoirs remain above average headed into winter
- MMWD seeks state grants for dam upgrades
- Marin Voice: It’s time for California to go all-in on fully electric vehicles
- Mill Valley tax program faces rising fire-prevention costs
- California Democrats want to slash gas prices, a state climate policy will raise them
- Gov. Newsom signs new laws cracking down on oil industry in California
- Marin fire inspectors use new ‘scoring’ system for risk assessment
- Editorial: California’s $10 billion Prop. 4 favors politics over sound policy
- California Voice: Don’t add $10B to state’s debt for a climate bond
- Inflation starts to ease in Bay Area — finally — after years of painful prices
- Marin City to receive up to $10M in federal flood aid
- Newsom lifts drought declaration for Marin, 18 other counties
- Response to Marin sea levels ‘too little, too late’, grand jury says
- MMWD digests ‘breathtaking’ costs of water pipeline options
- Plan aims to protect California coast against rising ocean — and doesn’t require sea walls
- Marin Municipal Water District proposes tighter lawn limits
- Marin City slated to receive portable flood pumps
- Dick Spotswood: Recently active MMWD needs to keep pushing projects
- PG&E strives to slow pace of increases in electric and gas bills: company CEO
- MMWD takes step toward expanded bike access trial
- Biden administration allots $20M for Highway 37 project
- California Voice: Cement could be part of the solution to carbon problem
- Marin water district partners with firefighters for land management
- Connolly bill proposes boost in residential solar incentives
- Marin sea-level defense costs estimated at $17B
- ‘This is an outrage’: MMWD water bill surge stuns some ratepayers
- Marin Voice: We must approach recycled water solution with open mind
- Dick Spotswood: Bay Area needs large-scale solutions to sea level rise
- Photos from the king tides show what permanent sea level rise could look like in San Francisco Bay Area by 2050
- Marin Voice: Focus on climate solutions Marin can implement in the next 5 years