The five-story apartment building planned for 825 Drake Ave. in Marin City was too tall. It blocked the view for low-income seniors living in a group home behind it. It was on the site of a Baptist church at the center of an historically Black community. It was approved during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the neighborhood was distracted by the health crisis. It was the subject of two lawsuits and years of protests, but on Tuesday, a compromise that split the project in two moved forward. 

The 74-unit project on Drake Avenue will now have 42 units and the remaining 32 units will be built at a second site in Tamalpais Valley located at 150 Shoreline Highway.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.