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County chips in $1.35M to help San Rafael buy property for future Canal Boatyard Park

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News September 23, 2025September 22, 2025

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Empty dry storage racks remain at a former boatyard at 620 Canal St. in San Rafael on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. The 1.65-acre site located along the southern edge of San Rafael Creek is being purchased by the city of San Rafael as a potential site for a waterfront park. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

To better connect the Canal community to the rest of the city, San Rafael was recently awarded a grant from the county to help buy a 1.65-acre boatyard on the south side of the canal and convert it into a public park.

Last week, the Marin County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.35 million grant toward the purchase of a 1.65-acre boatyard at 620 Canal Street.

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Tagged: bridges, Canal Alliance, Canal Boatyard Park, Canal district, Canal neighborhood, Community engagement, equity, Featured, Featured News, funding, grant, Land acquisition, Latino community, Marin County, Measure A, Montecito Plaza, open space, parks, recreation, sales tax, San Rafael, San Rafael High School, Trust for Public Land, underserved communities, Urban parks, waterfront

Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

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.

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