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Health & Fitness

Fighting High Density On Our Terrain - A Force Multiplier

"Use terrain when possible, it is a force-multiplier" - Sun Tzu (544-496BC)

Maybe the supervisors are thinking that voters have memories like goldfish - given their actions perhaps the reverse is true. Looking back, elected officials backing high density have rapidly started to disappear - in the Marinwood CSD election they were completely displaced. In Corte Madera David Kunhardt failed to win a seat.

In San Rafael Greg Brockbank, a well known name and former vice mayor lost. Meanwhile a complete unknown who opposed high density, Randy Warren, came out of nowhere to nearly winning a council seat. For each dollar spent Randy won almost double the votes of other candidates (detailed analysis in my article here). Opposing high density is a FORCE MULTIPLIER in any election capable of DOUBLING the effect of campaign funds.

Fighting in High Density Terrain When Ill Equipped with the Facts

The supervisors seem to be unaware of the facts of either transit oriented development (which doesn't reduce CO2 emissions or solve transportation issues) or that they will be fighting on our terrain for this election. This coming supervisor election will be all about high density housing that they are pushing on voters completely disenfranchised by Wall Street and special interests. To oppose this here's what we all must do:

1. Donate to the Marin Community Alliance Lawsuit
By far our best shot at stopping the supervisors who are pushing for WinCup densities in Strawberry, St Vincents, Grady Ranch - and maybe your neighborhood next...
http://www.alliancemarin.org/

2. Sign Up for the Citizen Marin Mailing List
Find out the facts, find out if your neighborhood is already targeted (many are waking up to this surprise) or what's next on the list for a Win Cup:
http://citizenmarin.org/mailsignup/

3. Donate to & Vote For Damon Connolly for Supervisor
While supervisors Adams has been doing a dance when asked any direct question about high density housing, meanwhile progressing a high density agenda Damon has been doing the opposite and actually representing residents. On the San Rafael city council he stuck his neck out multiple times opposing 33 N San Pedro and the soccer complex. 

We've taken out Marinwood CSD's high density brigade, almost succeeded in San Rafael - time to take down a supervisor with this agenda - donate and vote for Damon:
http://www.damonconnolly.com/

4. Donate to & Vote for Toni Shroyer for Supervisor
If you're in Novato then you need to support Tony. She's someone firmly against the high density housing agenda progressed by incumbent supervisor Judy Arnold:
http://www.tonishroyer.com/

A Message to the Supervisors
This battle will be fought on the terrain of facts, and high-density. This is a FORCE MULTIPLIER. To have a chance of winning a supervisor pushing a high density housing agenda like Supervisor Adams or Arnold will need to raise at least double what was previously thought to be necessary. $200k is not going to cut it anymore. Think half a million and even then you may still lose...

Better yet, cut your losses now AND START REPRESENTING US. An apology could work wonders... better yet:
- fix the Housing Element
- rescind the Strawberry PDA
- and re-write AB 1537 the right way this time so instead of upzoning to 20 units per acre (which really means 30 with density bonuses) it genuinely protects Marin.

Won't get fooled again

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