Mid-Week Links: Divide and Conquer

We intuit it, but we don’t always realize it: a busy street is a pedestrian-dead street.  That’s why you never walk down lower Miller Avenue, or Third Street, or, if you can avoid it, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.

Marin

• A Marin City woman is facing eviction from her public housing for hosting her dying mother without prior approval.
• Food Truck Crush might be a permanent after-work fixture at the Larkspur Ferry.
• The split-lot fee saga continues, which County Supervisors continue to adjudicate on a case-by-case basis.
• Golden Gate Bridge workers are engaged in a rather heated renegotiation of their contract with the District.
• If SMART is repealed, the sales tax that funds the project will remain in place until all outstanding contracts and bonds are paid off.  Dick Spotswood doesn’t think this is such a great deal.
• SMART supporters are reviving to fight the repeal effort.
• There’s a fight afoot to prevent the San Rafael Airport from also hosting a recreation center.
• Plans to expand Ross Valley’s White Hill Middle School have been approved.
• Redhill Shopping Center merchants are taking it in the gut as the beloved San Anselmo strip mall undergoes renovation and beautification.
• Larkspur’s low-density infill development at Niven Nursery near the city’s downtown is proceeding apace.
• Mill Valley loses a hardware store and a bit of its past.
• The Hanna Ranch sprawl project is set to go before the Novato City Council without affordable housing.  At least it has that going for it.
• Novato approved the design of its new city offices, with some caveats.

The Greater Marin

• Local transit agencies are urged to work together more closely ahead of an MTC-led push for a transit gas tax.
• If you commute by bus to the City, no doubt you know that the Transbay Terminal is gone.  What you may not know is that in its place will be a 61-story tower atop the new transit center along with a number of other fine projects.  Have some opinions?  Stop by San Francisco City Hall at 5:30 Thursday evening.
• Highway 101 widening around Rohnert Park will be completed this month, part of a $172 million widening scheme along the thoroughfare’s Sonoma reaches.
• Looks like California High-Speed Rail will cost a helluva lot more than planned.  Atlantic Cities waxes sanguine on the subject, and Alon Levy looks at the cause of the cost overruns: cantankerous residents officials at either end of the line.
• Why do Congressional Republicans hate bikes?

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