Here’s another quiz from the Legislative Action Committee to test your Floating Homes IQ: “People on my dock keep talking about AB252 and protections for floating homeowners. Why?” It has not passed the Legislature yet. Protections like rent control and vacancy control could be repealed this year. Protections like rent...
Here’s installment #3 in the Legislative Action Committee’s series of multiple-choice quizzes to test your knowledge about your rights: Question: Where can you find your legal rights as a floating homeowner in Marin? Sausalito Municipal Code Marin County Code California Tenant Protection Act Floating Home Residency Law Look for the...
In advertently, the last paragraph in the suggested letter to legislators was changed from the original. Below is the correct version which should be emailed to each of our elected representatives: Thanks to Stan Barbarich of Liberty Dock for compiling email addresses for each of the local and state representatives...
As we reported last week, harbor owners are opposing the recently enacted rent stabilization ordinance (AB252). Recently, they prevailed upon Stephanie Moulton-Peters, President of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, to propose amendments to the law which would effectively gut it. At the April 20 Board of Supervisors meeting,...
Harbor owners are opposing the recently enacted rent stabilization ordinance (AB252), claiming it is a financial burden, and are collectively seeking to amend the bill. The FHA wants all residents to understand what is in the bill, and how it helps to level the playing field between floating homeowners and...
In our recent report on the passage of rent stabilization (AB252) for floating home marinas in Sausalito and other Bay Area communities, we invited questions. Here are four questions we’ve received so far. The answers below are informational and must not be considered legal advice. If you intend to make...
On September 28, Governor Newsom approved a law that will protect 477 floating home owners from sharp increases in the rents they pay for legal berths on San Francisco Bay. Its two main provisions limit annual berth rent increases in certain San Francisco Bay Area floating home marinas to the...
In a recent Marin IJ op-ed piece, an ex-Sausalito mayor described the city’s working waterfront as “the financial golden goose.” To reinforce that description, she added: “This industrial and maritime area diversifies Sausalito’s economy away from tourism and continued to function at full capacity during the pandemic. It generates 75%...
Residents of the Barnhill Marina floating homes community reached out to the city of Alameda earlier this month after being told their rent could be hiked at least 30% by the harbor’s new owner. The marina had long been owned by the Barnhill family. Its patriarch, Audley Vernon “Barney” Barnhill,...
The City of Sausalito hosted its first of four Housing Element Town Halls on Feb 10. City Consultant Beth Thompson of De Novo Planning explained the Housing Element process and asked for community input. Every local government jurisdiction in the Bay Area, including Sausalito and Marin County, is developing its...