Quiet & Safe San Rafael

Plan Bay Area’s preferred plan advocates targeting and densifying the 5% of the region identified as Priority Development Areas, adding 77% of new housing to these locations.  The area around Civic Center Station has been identified as one of these Priority Development Areas (or PDAs). Development is geared around high density housing – small units in apartment blocks. This development will place burdens on traffic, schools, police, fire and ambulance services; or conversely require commensurate increases in taxes to maintain levels of service.

The Cato Insititute’s Randal O’Toole provides useful perspective to help residents understand Plan Bay Area and what this means for residents like us within the Priority Development Area in his highly readable comment letter on the plan:

Read Randal O’Toole’s Plan Bay Area Comment Letter >>

On May 16th about 70 local residents attended the Plan Bay Area EIR public hearing at Embassy Suites. Of the 30 speakers all but one opposed or had objections to Plan Bay Area.  The following coverage was provided by the press:

Marin IJ Coverage

San Rafael Patch Coverage 

Extract:

“Many questioned the projections for population and job growth on which the plan is based, noting the discrepancy between the numbers and those of the California Department of Finance, which projects that Marin will add just 6,818 new residents by 2040, far shy of the 33,000 new residents predicted by Plan Bay Area.”