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The Marin Post's Most Read Articles in 2023
These are the most read articles that appeared in the Marin Post in 2023, listed in order of readership.
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Appeal of Planning Commission approval of Treehouse MV Private Club
Posted by: Kenneth Wachtel - October 31, 2023 - 4:09pm
The following Appeal of the Mill Valley Planning Commission's October 24, 2023 approval of Design Review and Conditional Use Permit to convert the former Bank of A... … more »
The Rebirth Of Company Towns: New Solutions Or A Sign of Hard Times?
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - April 12, 2022 - 7:46pm
Company towns have existed for as long as people have built cities. Some of the earliest, notable examples were worker housing villages built by the Egyptian Phara... … more »
Power Players’ Problematic Playbook For Housing
Posted by: Sharon Rushton - May 19, 2023 - 7:27pm
Since 2008 and accelerating in 2016, State lawmakers have been following the same playbook, which has been largely written by the lobbying efforts of Big Real Esta... … more »
Housing Law Failures and YIMBY Bounty Hunters
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - February 11, 2023 - 4:27pm
The State of California’s “the punishments will continue until
morale improves” approach to the affordable housing crisis continues to
be a catastrophic failure....
… more »
Sacramento generates a realistic California population forecast after all!
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - July 26, 2023 - 5:39pm
Within my previous essay, I developed a California population forecast given that Sacramento's population forecast released in July 2021 seemed way too high. Gene... … more »
Huntington Beach v. Newsom, RHNA, HCD, and state housing law
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - March 16, 2023 - 2:22pm
The City of Huntington Beach (the “CITY”) in Southern California
has been in the news recently in its battle to push back on state
housing laws, the Department of ...
… more »
Posted by: Don Schwartz - April 2, 2021 - 8:17am
In March, 2018, Jason Reid and his wife were vacationing in Puerto Vallarta when they got the text and the call. Ryan, the youngest of their four children texted h... … more »
Marin governments' indifference to the hazards of E-bikes
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - September 30, 2022 - 10:15am
Bikes are great. They’re fun to
ride, a great way to get outside and get some exercise, and they provide kids (and parents) cherished
independence. I own a hyb...
… more »
Posted by: John Palmer - March 25, 2022 - 5:29pm
Talk of reconstructing the Alto Tunnel between Mill Valley and
Corte Madera for use as a north/sound multi-use route surfaced nearly 30
years ago, which prompted m...
… more »
Dominican Valley Residents are Steaming Mad for Good Reason
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - December 16, 2023 - 11:12am
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 »
Major Environmental Protection Organizations Oppose SB 423
Posted by: Amy Kalish - July 30, 2023 - 2:17pm
In reaction to legislation being proposed in Sacramento by Senator
Scott Wiener of San Francisco, to remove protections against development
in California's coastal...
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If not for Mt. Tam, MMWD could not support a single water-customer
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - December 26, 2022 - 8:57am
The shocking title says it all. Let me explain our local climate
situation. Mt. Tam is truly a magnificent rain factory. Mt. Tam has a
front row seat at the re...
… more »
Posted by: Brad Sears - April 9, 2023 - 3:49pm
On Tuesday, April 11th, the San Rafael Planning Commission will
meet and likely approve the most consequential project in the last 50
years. Its presentation bef...
… more »
Comments on Fairfax's Programmatic Environmental Impact Report & Housing & Safety Elements
Posted by: Frank Egger - May 6, 2023 - 11:17am
The following comment letter has been submitted to the Town of
Fairfax regarding the Scoping Session for the Notice Of Preparation of
the Programmatic Environmenta...
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The project is the problem, not the neighbors
Posted by: Susan Cluff - August 27, 2023 - 10:51am
With all this talk about "affordability" these days, one would
think a local community group trying to preserve existing affordable
rental housing in Belvedere -...
… more »
RHNA and ABAG demographic projections are way too high
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - January 9, 2023 - 7:25am
California agencies make demographic projections that are way too
high. They result in housing units to be developed that are also way
too high. The sequence o...
… more »
Residents Sue City of Mill Valley over Adoption of Discriminatory Housing Plan
Posted by: Gary Batroff - June 26, 2023 - 12:09pm
Friends of Hauke Park (FOHP), a grassroots association of Mill Valley residents, has filed a Petition For Writ Of Mandate in Marin County Superior Court against ... … more »
Wiener bill would kick elected officials out of critical land-use and housing decisions
Posted by: Zelda Bronstein - February 16, 2023 - 9:47am
If cities don't meet the state's impossible housing goals, unelected bureaucrats could be approving development projects with no oversight. State Sen. Scott Wien... … more »
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - July 13, 2023 - 3:26pm
There’s no lack of fact-denying, anti-science people in the world, bent on holding onto really dumb ideas and resisting all attempts to be educated. But at the... … more »
Fear & Loathing in Fairfax - Rent Control and Council Members Out of Control
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - September 1, 2023 - 12:07am
The Town of Fairfax is embroiled in a heated debate about rent
control in the wake of the Council passing Fairfax Rent Control
Ordinances #870 and #871 without a p...
… more »
PG&E may have found a way of killing residential solar for good
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - April 14, 2023 - 9:09pm
PG&E was floating an earlier proposal to kill residential solar. There was much pushback. And, I gather they abandoned this first proposal. But, PG&E is at i... … more »
Is Marin County a "Blue Zone"? For sure!
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - September 12, 2023 - 4:20pm
Blue Zones caught my attention back in 2002 when I read The Okinawa Program. Recently, I viewed Dan Buettner's excellent Netflix documentary How to Live to 100. ... … more »
Posted by: Gaetan Lion - September 16, 2023 - 4:46pm
I use Jared Diamond’s concept of "Collapse" as defined in his bestseller. Within this book, Diamond states that societies collapse because of eight systemic fai... … more »
A Community Effort to Save Dominican Valley
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - September 8, 2023 - 5:58pm
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 »
RHNA Quotas, Unfunded Mandates, Buffer Sites, and the CA State Constitution
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - December 1, 2023 - 11:21pm
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 »
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - May 8, 2023 - 7:43am
The term “spot zoning” is thrown around a lot in discussions about planning and development and the vast majority of the time the term is misused and misundersto... … more »
Wiener, the Yimbys, and the 50-story tower
Posted by: Zelda Bronstein - April 19, 2023 - 5:32pm
An ambitious politician is backing away from the Yimby position in the face of a project that is going to be deeply unpopular. Up to now, when it comes to devel... … more »
Save Dominican Valley explains the "Builder's Remedy"
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - October 4, 2023 - 2:33pm
In June of 2023, Dominican Valley LLC submitted five SB 330
Preliminary Application proposals to develop on the 20-acres (approx.)
parcel surrounded on three sid...
… more »
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - January 2, 2023 - 9:20am
On June 21, 2021, the Orange County Council of Governments (OCCOG) filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate (“Petition”) in Superior Court, to which the cities of Re... … more »
SMART Marketing -- Spending Your Money to Convince You of the Wonders of SMART Rail
Posted by: Mike Arnold Ph.D. - October 28, 2023 - 1:54pm
Since its inception, the Sonoma-Marin Area Rapid Transit (SMART)
agency has a history of making bold claims about its value proposition
while hiding its costs from...
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The state housing secrecy just keeps getting worse and worse
Posted by: Zelda Bronstein - May 28, 2023 - 10:57am
Crucial planning decisions are made behind closed-doors, with Yimby
stakeholders—and the public can't even get the basic records. Ben
Metcalf directed the Califor...
… more »
Strawberry resident challenges the approval of the Marin County 2023-2031 Housing Element
Posted by:
Bob Silvestri
- October 20, 2023 - 5:32pm
In April of 2023, attorneys for Strawberry resident Bruce Corcoran
filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Declaratory
Relief against the County of ...
… more »
Why you shouldn't trust the NY Times on California housing
Posted by: Michael Barnes - November 9, 2022 - 10:20am
On Oct. 4, this editorial, “California is Actually Making Progress on Building More Housing,” appeared in the online version of the New York Times. The author is... … more »
Posted by: Bob Silvestri - June 15, 2023 - 10:46pm
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” ~ Joseph Goebbels. Last week, I wrote about the dismal track record of California’s state housing laws... … more »