The homebuyer, perhaps your kid or you if you are home hunting, pay that cost.

Consider how  your business would be doing if it had a 30 year time line to deliver product:  Bahia Time Line

Consider all the work, time, money and resources that went into that history portrayed in the Bahia Excutive Summary.

Consider the successful political tactic Marin's myopic environmentalists use every step of the way as espoused by one of their more approachable followers.  

Sitting in the chair occupied by his boss just a few minutes earlier, Kress' assistant, Rick Fraites, offered advice to the group. He served on the steering committee for the Citizens to Save Bahia, the group that last month successfully blocked expansion of the Bahia subdivision project in Novato.

"Anything you can conjure up to get the developer to look at and spend money, throw it out there," Fraites said. "That's my advice, having just gone through this with Bahia."

"That's one of the reasons housing is so expensive in Marin County," Schwartz said about Fraites' comment. "If frivolous studies are asked for by the community and included in the environmental impact report, the cost of those studies get reflected in the cost of each home."

Of Fraites' comment, Leland added, "That's probably good advice if your objective is to stop it. The classic paradigm in Marin County is an antagonistic one and we are going to do our best to make it a collaborative one, to work with the residents there."

 Source Marin IJ of June 11, 2001. For the whole story on a Santa Venetia development fight against 28 houses on 30 acres, click Development fight in Santa Venetia.