JUTTING INTO THE BAY between Tiburon and the Golden Gate is a modest headland with a name that sounds like it was chosen by a little girl — Strawberry.

Across the top of Strawberry’s southern peak is a swath of elevated land crowned with a college campus. Most of the 127-acre property is slated for a large redevelopment, a town within a town, with housing, senior care, childcare, recreation and public parks. With a total of 337 housing units and the potential traffic of a commuter campus, neighbors have fiercely opposed the project, until this month.

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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.