Just to elaborate. Bolinas is a town in Western Marin County. It's a significant drive on winding, hard to maintain roads (highway 1 and others) from any location even in wealthy, isolated Marin County. It was once a hippy town but is now, naturally, a preserve of the very wealthy but regardless of cost, with no jobs in the area, only tourists and the wealth would buy development there.
It seems like the State and YIMBY or whoever should push housing near transportation as well as denser housing. This is obviously not that.
If you read the GP's post, you'll notice they're complaining about not being able to build on an irregular parcel in Marin that's advertised for $12K. Of course, the parcel is that cheap because you can't build on it. The GP should save their complaints for problems that make sense. Complaints about not being able to build in Mountain View make sense, this doesn't.
Altogether, the problems of US housing comes from too much low density housing and too little high density. Given this, keeping people from building on marginal locations is not the worse sin, to say the least.
Thanks for posting this explanation. Bolinas is also pretty infamous as the only town in California that Caltrans can't post a sign pointing too.
It does hit on the fundamental Bay Area issue that almost all water is imported, and there are significant restrictions on development because of that. Almost all of the land surrounding the populated bay is part of a public & ngo "green belt". In the Bay Area, there really is not just some new amazing new places to build. We must build up.
in Contra Costa county (many affluent suburbs and converted acreage) the home-owners marched en masse to a County Supervisors meeting where a tiered pricing of water was on the table.. with One Thousand Gallons a DAY being at the top.. and, huge resistance from "home" owners.. the Supervisors caved, and the measure failed.. this is pre-drought 1990s California Bay Area.. absolutely true
It seems like the State and YIMBY or whoever should push housing near transportation as well as denser housing. This is obviously not that.
If you read the GP's post, you'll notice they're complaining about not being able to build on an irregular parcel in Marin that's advertised for $12K. Of course, the parcel is that cheap because you can't build on it. The GP should save their complaints for problems that make sense. Complaints about not being able to build in Mountain View make sense, this doesn't.
Altogether, the problems of US housing comes from too much low density housing and too little high density. Given this, keeping people from building on marginal locations is not the worse sin, to say the least.