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Sausalito considers merging Marinship restrictions with general plan - Marin Independent Journal

Sausalito residents are raising concerns about plans to retire the “Marinship Specific Plan” without proper protections for artists, maritime and industrial workers.

The Marinship plan, a zoning ordinance that dates back to 1989, sets restrictions on certain types of development in different zones throughout the historic World War II shipbuilding neighborhood.

A resolution spelling out the city’s intention to sunset the plan and incorporate protections for Marinship into the city’s general plan was pulled from the City Council consent calendar on Tuesday for discussion.

The issue will be brought to the General Plan Working Group for further discussion. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the conference room at City Hall, 420 Litho St.

Sandra Bushmaker, a former councilwoman, said the resolution is vague and unenforceable, and should not have appeared as a consent item.

“I am concerned this highly controversial issue is being buried to a point where the public, unless they study your agendas and look at the attachments, will have an unclear position on what is happening in Sausalito in regard to the plan,” Bushmaker said.

She said the General Plan Advisory Committee and the Planning Commission have not had enough time to review which restrictions in the Marinship plan should be incorporated in the general plan.

Nora Sawyer, a Sausalito resident, said she is concerned the council and M Group, an urban planning consultant firm hired by the city, may not add protections for artists.

She said she is glad that the vision statement mentions the thriving art community, but the omission of the art community in the resolution raises concern.

“By not including art and artists in the resolution alongside light industrial, maritime and the working waterfront,” she said, “I worry that the city may unintentionally signal that the arts are not a vital part of the Marinship.”

Vice Mayor Ray Withy said that the council is fully focused on the process.

“Quite frankly I’m really upset that folks accuse of us of not listening,” Withy said. “If you go to the vision statement of the Marinship that we put in place, it agrees with nearly all public comments we received. I would suggest perhaps it is other people who are not listening. This council does not deserve that.”

The vision statement includes adding more live-work, aging in place and industrial workforce housing, a bike path that goes through the Marinship, reducing environmental contamination and mitigating sea level rise. It also states economic sustainability will be incorporated into all aspects of the plan.

Specific zoning regulations and restrictions from the Marinship plan have not yet been identified in the general plan vision statement. Some restrictions in the Marinship plan include prohibiting commercial retail, banning residential use in the industrial zone, no new land-based residential use in the water zone, and that applied arts, such as architecture firms, cannot exceed 50% of all art use on a parcel.

The Sausalito Working Waterfront Coalition submitted a letter to the council expressing its concern that the council will retire the plan without including specific restrictions.

“Rather than a targeted location for Sausalito’s new economic development plan, the Marinship Community should be imagined as a three-legged stool, with the legs being the three sectors: maritime, light-industry and artist,” the letter reads. “The loss of any one leg will destroy the cultural fabric and economic well-being of the Marinship.”

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