Plans are under review for a five-story residential infill at 150 Shoreline Highway in unincorporated Marin County. The project will bring 32 affordable apartments to the vacant lot next to a Freeway 101 overpass and the Mill Valley-Sausalito path. Pacific Companies is responsible for the application.
150 Shoreline Highway, rendering by AO
150 Shoreline Highway, elevation by AO
The 58-foot tall structure is expected to yield around 32,400 square feet for 32 apartments, with 24 one-bedrooms and eight two-bedrooms. Surface parking will be included for seven cars, with additional capacity for 31 bicycles.
Marin County’s Community Development Agency has stated that “the project is being pursued as an alternative location for 32 of the 74 units originally planned at 825 Drake Avenue in Marin City.” Apartments will be designated as affordable to lower-income households.
150 Shoreline Highway elevation view, rendering by AO
150 Shoreline Highway, image via Google Satellite
Orange County-based AO is responsible for the design. Illustrations show the Shoreline Highway project will be a podium-style complex with distinct colors denoting the ground level and top floor. The exterior will be clad with Hardie board fiber cement panels.
The latest development first surfaced in November, employing Senate Bill 330 to streamline the approval process. Construction is expected to last over a year and a half from groundbreaking to completion.
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The Community Development Agency should insist that in cases where affordable units are being built offsite of a previous development, that the entire (in this case 74) affordable allocation be built at once, rather than being piecemealed. Especially if the developer is going to build right next to a Freeway and employ SB 330, also known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, to politically repress interested neighbors who will have to deal with the increased noise and traffic.
Why? If they own the property they should be able to build housing on it. If you don’t like the plan you can offer to buy the property and keep it vacant.
Oh my gosh, that pseudo-Craftsman Extended Stay by Marriott look is so 2003.
Next to a Freeway overpass. Tell me more!!!