THE MARIN COUNTY Board of Supervisors this week approved the expansion of an existing financing package to accommodate the construction of a multifamily affordable housing project in Mill Valley. It constitutes about half of the units originally planned for a single 74-unit building in Marin City.  

After residents of Marin City protested the scale and placement of the original development at 825 Drake Ave., an alternative agreement was made in early 2025 between the developer, Caleb Roope of The Pacific Companies, and the county. The project was split in half — 42 units in Marin City, and 32 units would go to a site at 156 Shoreline Highway in Mill Valley. 

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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.