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Petition to the Marin County Supervisors — Vote to save Community Plans!
TO SAVE COMMUNITY PLANS, WE NEED TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD AGAIN — FAST!
Please sign the Petition to ask our County Supervisors to simply follow the Court Order and ignore extraneous language added by County Staff, as their Planning Commission is recommending.
The Board of Supervisors meeting is October 29th - petition open until October 28th.
THE PETITION REQUEST LETTER:
To the Marin County Board of Supervisors: President Dennis Rodoni, Katie Rice, Mary Sackett, Eric Lucan, and Stephanie Moulton-Peters,
We, the undersigned, strongly support the Planning Commission’s reasoning and decision that simply restores the relevance of community plans, as per court order, without staff’s unnecessary language that further complicates interpretation of our Countywide Plan. We ask you to end this contentious chapter by following the recommendation of your expert Planning Commission, and simply remove the precedence clauses.
Amy Kalish,
Director, Citizen Marin
Chair, Tam Design Review Board (signing as an individual)
CLICK THIS LINK to sign the Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/urgent-save-community-plans-please-sign-asap
MORE INFORMATION:
How our Supervisors vote on October 29th will determine the future of community plans.
We rallied with Sharon Rushton to preserve community plans almost two years ago, and it’s time to speak up again! In spite of our efforts — and 1580 signatures — language from staff that “eviscerated” community plans was approved in our Housing Element, even though staff knew at the time it was unlawful.
This action gave rise to a lawsuit which the County predictably lost, and the Court has ordered “precedence clauses” to be removed from our County documents NOW!
On 9/23/24 the Planning Commission took the first step, followed the Court order directly, and voted 5-2 to remove the precedence clauses.
Though staff presented contentious, extra language that would actually further weaken community plans, the Planning Commission correctly focused only on the Court ordered restoration of community plan relevance in the Housing Element. We are asking the Board of Supervisors to do the same.
SHOW UP IN PERSON: October 29th, BOS Chambers: Room 330 at the Marin County Civic Center. — time of meeting TBA
WRITE YOUR OWN LETTER TO: BOS@marincounty.org
EASY INSTRUCTIONS HERE : https://citizenmarin.org/home/f/write-a-letter-to-our-supervisors-about-saving-community-plans
For more information on how the situation has unfolded:
Why this is an urgent issue for all Marin resident:
https://citizenmarin.org/home/f/urgent-marin-issue
Here’s the petition we signed in January 2023:
https://www.change.org/p/reverse-the-needless-destruction-of-community-plans-in-marin-county
OUR MESSAGE TO THE MARIN COUNTY SUPERVISORS IS SIMPLE:
On October 29th,
VOTE TO FOLLOW THE COURT ORDER and the Planning Commission's Recommendation
FIX THE ERROR made in the original housing element document that subjugated community plans unlawfully and gave rise to a lawsuit.
ELIMINATE UNLAWFUL PRECEDENCE CLAUSES as the Court ordered, and restore relevance to community plans!
FOCUS ON THE COURT ORDER! Though other language was presented to the Commissioners, they found it extraneous, vague and unnecessary.
PUT THIS CHAPTER TO REST! Don’t add unnecessary language to our Housing Element and Countywide Plan that will further complicate our County documents!
Amy Kalish is an activist fighting against overblown state housing mandates, following Marin-specific and statewide issues as they relate to housing policy. Her organization, Citizen Marin, alerts members to current issues and actions they can take. The citizenmarin.org site is a growing resource for all cities regarding issues related to state housing policy. To contact / sign up for updates, email: 1citizenmarin@gmail.com