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Citizen Marin Announces the First Annual Marin Town Hall Meeting
Citizen Marin Announces the First Annual Marin Town Hall Meeting: "Our Planning and Affordable Housing Challenges in Marin."
Our Planning and Affordable Housing Challenges in Marin
Date: March 20, 2013; 6:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M.
Location:
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The Al Boro / Pickleweed Community Center at 50 Canal Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
Overflow Parking at Bahia Vista School 125 Bahia Way, San Rafael, CA 94901.
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This event is free and open to the general public. Parking will be available at the Community Center but may fill up quickly. Overflow parking has been arranged at Bahia Vista Elementary School: 125 Bahia Way, San Rafael, California 94901.
Citizen Marin, a Task Force of the Social Justice Center of Marin, will be hosting an open Town Hall meeting to discuss better ways or solving our planning and affordable housing development challenges in Marin County.
The evening will examine the facts and fallacies of Plan Bay Area and the Sustainable Communities Strategies currently being promoted by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC).
Bob Silvestri, author of “The Best Laid Plans: Our Planning and Affordable Housing Challenges in Marin,” will make the keynote presentation addressing the history of planning and affordable housing, the need to create a truly sustainable future and the consequences of the loss of local government input and control. The keynote will be followed by an “open mic” town hall discussion that will invite everyone to speak on issues of general concern.
Participating organizations include: the North San Rafael Coalition of Residents, Sustainable TamAlmonte, Friends of Mill Valley, San Marin Compatible Housing Coalition, Novato Homeowners Association and Novato Community Alliance.
About Citizen Marin:
The mission of Citizen Marin (formerly known as The Marin Communities Coalition for Local Control / MCC4LC) is to inform and educate neighborhood & community organizations about housing, the environment, and local control under the challenges of SB375, OneBayArea, and the Sustainable Communities Strategies. The group was formed in response to the recent legislation that effect local control of planning and zoning.
Citizen Marin is an organization of community organizations. It meets monthly to share information, consider policy and support local efforts. For further information please contact Susan Kirsch at (415) 383-3999 or mcc4lc@gmail.com
