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| Canalways Information |  Circa 1995 Blowup |
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San Rafael has been and remains Marin's most diversified city. It has provided the most large and small commerce, jobs, affordable workforce housing and ethnic diversity. Marin has become the oldest median aged county in California and one of the wealthiest in the nation. It is woefully short of affordable work force housing. NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) pressure groups have deftly forced fewer and fewer units per acre, thereby driving the price per house higher and higher. ($669,000 average sales price in May of 2001) These politically adept pressure groups have driven the county to an auto dependent suburban sprawl design pattern. In doing so, they have consistently fought the revival of the train on Marin's existing tracks, while ironically calling themselves environmentalists. Canalways is one of the few parcels in San Rafael that can equal 100 or more acres in size. Sitting in East San Rafael near the 580 Freeway and Richmond Bridge, between Home Depot and the Spinnaker on the Bay housing development, it remains the last significantly sized piece of land left to address serious housing, employment and design issues for East San Rafael. East San Rafael is the most culturally diverse and most densely populated area in Marin. it is home to many of the proud, hard working immigrants who do the hard, often thankless jobs that Marinites expect to be done and refuse to do themselves. These workers often live in crowded conditions, sometimes ten per apartment. Their children go to child care, school and after school care in crowded, portable modules. Cutting through this area of workers is the San Rafael Canal, home to some expensive boats. The San Rafael Canal, however, has seen its marine and harbor businesses stumble and boat and property owners' frustrations grow as the once regular Canal dredging has fallen behind, leaving boats and docks mired in mud. How does Canalways play in this? With sufficient land zoned for a mixed use development in this 2001 San Rafael General Plan Update, Canalways could address:
To read a report that touches on some of these issues while the web page is constructed, click Benefits -- of wisely using Canalways. To read report submitted to General Plan Task force in December 2001, click: General Plan Housing Opportunities & Issues The under-construction links to the left will go into more detail on these issues. For a presentation on Canalways, call 415-383-7880 or or contact the webmaster.
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