Protect our Parks
Measure K asks residents to overturn existing laws and sacrifice a community park for a potentially massive development. Keep the existing laws in place, avoid this unnecessary risk, and meet our housing goals.
Keep big development out.
If Measure K is passed, it would cast aside the existing laws protecting parks and permanently open the door for developers to override local zoning regulations. Pacific West Communities, a developer already interested in the MLK site, has a track record of doing this. In Mill Valley, they used state density laws to force approval of a building more than double the local height limit with drastically insufficient parking, despite strong community and county opposition.
If MLK Park is approved for housing, builders can override local size, height, and parking requirements. Even the amount of land given for the project is subject to change based on an “approved overlay”.
Keep parks accessible.
Measure K would limit access to community recreation areas, including pickleball, field, tennis, baseball, and basketball courts. Development would reduce parking and crowd out families, youth, and senior activities that rely on these spaces.
No Partner, No Feasibility.
The city’s claims of a unique partnership with Rotary for integrated, modest-scale affordable housing are not substantiated. Rotary stated there had been no meaningful conversations about the project when the MLK site was selected. Furthermore, Rotary is currently dedicated to costly emergency infrastructure work—including replumbing—at their existing senior housing, raising doubts about their capacity to take on a new partnership.
Image: Rotary Village repairs
Keep MLK lease revenue.
MLK tenants provide one of the city’s largest revenue streams. Limiting access and parking would threaten this much-needed revenue and could cause the city to buy out the leases.
Avoid 10x overruns.
Given the city’s history of cost overruns at this site, like the field repair that cost nearly 10 times its estimate. City-led development here could put taxpayers on the hook for millions in infrastructure costs.
Reject scare tactics, protect parks.
Protecting our parks does not mean Sausalito will be subject to “builder’s remedy” or fines, the city’s own attorney confirmed this. The city has already identified an existing Marinship site that can accommodate the proposed MLK housing.