Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Getting to Know the Local Environmentalists Part 2: Saving the Coast

Subdivisions Averted 1: on display at the San Geronimo
Valley Community Center.

What would West Marin be like if there had not been heroic efforts to save it? It would probably be like the rest of the Bay Area. As you come over White's Hill from Fairfax, instead of traveling on two-lane Sir Francis Drake Blvd, you would be driving on a four-lane superhighway all the way to Limantour Beach. You'd want that superhighway to deal with the congested traffic, since there would be a lot more development and a quarter million people living in West Marin--as many as live in the entire county now. San Geronimo Valley would be built up to the ridges on both sides. The Coho Salmon