"If you ask Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash, she doesn't love the idea of a 243-unit apartment building coming to her small Marin County town either. But the state has made such developments inevitabilities after decades of NIMBYism in places like Fairfax. The 7,600-person town of Fairfax is in the midst of a recall fight which could result in the removal next month of Mayor Lisel Blash and Deputy Mayor Stephanie Hellman."
"As the Chronicle reports, under the state's density-bonus rules, the proposed development on School Street grew to six stories and 243 units and many agree that the building would be an eyesore and wildly out of scale with the small downtown. Blash says her hands are tied, and if the city were to try to stop this housing from being built, it could"
A proposed 243-unit, six-story apartment building in Fairfax has ignited intense local opposition and a recall campaign against the mayor and deputy mayor. State density-bonus and housing-mandate rules allowed the project to expand beyond prior local proposals, creating tension between municipal control and state directives. Officials warn that resisting the project could trigger a "builder's remedy" that empowers developers further. The School Street site was once slated for 40 units before a past referendum blocked rezoning, and Fairfax now faces the broader regional reality of state-driven upzoning pressures and community backlash.
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