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The Gaslighting of Single Family Zoning

What now?

Party on to the apocalypse

The County's sudden change of heart compounds the County's violations

Marin County scrambles to  correct its illegal Community Service Contracts Program

When the housing "crisis" meets a financial crisis, who will pick up the tab?

The Dow Jones, CalPERS, and Us

The 1980's S&L Crisis Redux?

Rethinking Fire Safety Solutions

Governor Newsom sends back AB 1516 regarding wildfire risk in the WUI files

CVP files Amicus Letter in CA Supreme Court requesting review of Appeal Court's Incentive Zoning Decision

CVP Complaint to DA Regarding Illegal Acts and Regulatory Violations by Marin County

How over-leveraged college students pose a financial threat

Running Faster: Losing Ground: The "Crisis"of Middle Class Affordability

Audacity and ignorance are as lethal as a firestorm

The City of Mill Valley is avoiding its firefigthing responsibilities

Corte Madera sets a precedent for community engagement

CVP / LC v ABAG in San Francisco Superior Court - Round Two

CVP / LC v ABAG in San Francisco Superior Court - Round One

Just one tech billionaire could save our democracy

The Marin County "Community Service Contracts" Program - Investigative Report - Part I through IV

Cupertino up-ends a half century of local government policy about growth

The Marin County Grand Jury confirms community opposition to the narrowing of Miller Avenue Parkway

CVP and Livable CA file a Petition for Writ of Mandate against ABAG for Brown Act violations

When did California politics lose its common sense?

Oblivious to reality, Senator Wiener trips over American's third rail

And the hits just keep on coming: MTC and CASA want the power to tax you!

CVP and Livable California prevail in challenge to BART's illegal endorsement of SB 50

CVP submits Respondent's Answer to Amicus Briefs in CVP v MCOSD

Senator Mike McGuire bows to Wiener's SB 50 plan to outlaw single family zoning

Livable California and CVP file Cease & Desist letter with ABAG Board for Brown Act violations

Livable California and CVP send BART cease & desist letter for Brown Act violation

The League of California Cities oversteps their organization's mandate

            CVP v Goliath and "friends"

       Putting Urbanism In Perspective

The Miller Avenue Streetscape Parkway Plan - Coda

The Mill Valley City Council debates fire safety

CVP vs MCOSD goes to the California State Court of Appeals

New Suburbanism 2.0 - A new way to look at planning, growth and the greening of our world

Opportunity Zones: Opportunities Wasted

California cities and counties need to support the constitutional challenge to SB35

Mill Valley lacks the ability to deal with a catastrophic event

Affordable housing solutions: more government, less government, or smart government?

The Mill Valley City Council is ignoring the lessons of the Paradise fire

The CASA Housing Compact - Part III - We need a better way forward

The CASA Housing Compact - Part II - The socialist system that made America great, but won't work in CA

CASA's Housing Compact - How ideologically-driven policies will make housing less affordable

The City of Mill Valley must honor its commitment to an open public process

The Mill Valley City Council continues to carelessly endanger the lives of residents

China has over 50 million vacant new homes and why you should care

Elections, climate change, and the colonization of Mars

You can't push a river - Housing starts continue to fall

The IPCC Report on Climate Change in the Age of Entitlement, Growth Addiction and Urbanism

The Committee to House the Bay Area and the coming tax tsunami

Comments on the RVSD parcel at Larkspur Landing Circle

CVP technical comments on the 500 Miller Avenue development proposal

The Marin County Board of Supervisors Vote to Appeal the Marin Superior Court ruling on the Bob Middagh Trail

TAM's ballot measure to extend Measure A taxes for 30 years.

MAPE's attempt to extort Marin County Taxpayers

Marin Economic Council says County's housing shortage is bad, but are clueless how to fix it

A crack in the dam? County cures flawed Sir Francis Drake Boulevard FEIR in 11th hour

The Last Subsidy - Your Property Rights

Desperately Seeking Solutions... in a soundbite world

Court rules on CVP v MCOSD: NO BIKES allowed on Bob Middagh Trail

The Marin County Counsel's assault on the public's right to know

Mr. Wiener's Whimsical World: The "Madman" Theory of Zoning

Snowflakes in my backyard: San Francisco Planning comments on SB 827

CVP Yuppies in my backyard: SB 827 & deconstructing community

CVP v MCSOD: Opening Brief & Statement of Issues: Alto Bowl Preserve

Marin Count Superior Court Throws Out Frivolous Lawsuit Against FWTV Attorney Edward Yates

State Housing Laws: Questioning the Constitutionality of Recent Legislation

The CVP challenges the Draft EIR for the Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Rehab Project

The State of Marin 2017: The Empire Strikes Back

The hijacking of the Miller Avenue Streetscape plan

Marin County's Retaliatory Cross Complaint to Limit Access to Public Records

Marin County Supervisors want to restrict access to public records by raising the cost.

The Mill Valley City Council must honor the approved Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan

CVP files Petition for Writ of Mandate v MCOSD

Housing Issues in Marin: Marin Coalition Luncheon: Part I 

Keynote at the California Grand Jury Association's Anuual Luncheon 

CVP President Bob Silvestri addresses

the Marin Board of Supervisors.

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