The County of Marin held a public workshop with the Community Development Agency (CDA), Planning Commission, and Board of Supervisors on August 9th to review the Draft Housing Element proposal that was submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for review.

The CDA presented a problematic plan that would make overly broad and sweeping amendments to the Countywide Plan to accommodate potential housing locations to meet the State's Regional Housing Needs Allocation by changing the Countywide Plan environmental corridor boundaries and density zoning rules.

This approach fails to consider the decades of public engagement and the County’s track record of robust community planning. Housing is a balance of people and place that requires careful planning and community participation to ensure appropriate development that is not harmful to our environment, does not displace residents, and retains unincorporated village's rural values. For decades, residents in unincorporated Marin County have worked to develop community plans that balance all of these needs.