Our Work

Campaigns

What we’re working on now — and what we’ve done.

Rendering of the proposed MLK Park senior housing

Affordable Housing

Measure K Implementation

Support: Affordable housing built as promised. We're watching the RFPs to keep the homes affordable, at 32 feet, and in scale with the neighborhood.

Historic District

605–613 Bridgeway

Oppose: The city has found this out of scale project inconsistent with zoning. It has no place in the Historic District.

Historic District

83 Princess Street

Oppose: A 39-unit, 66-foot building that would clear-cut the Princess Grove, carve into a fragile hillside, and swallow an 1884 landmark home.

Bridgeway

1 Harbor Drive

Concern: The largest proposed building in Sausalito — 294 apartments, 90 feet, on Bridgeway. The developer says it needs no environmental review. We say study the impacts first.

Liveaboards

Pelican Harbor

A Stand With win — the Pelican Harbor lease transfer was rejected 4–0.

Stand With

Bridgeway Neighbors

After 13 police reports and a neighborhood petition, the new operator of the former Trident space agreed to changes that gave Bridgeway neighbors their evenings back.

The view across the Sausalito corporation yard site

Stand With

Nevada Street View Protection

A draft RFP made view studies optional for developers. Nevada Street neighbors sent 88 comments, and the Council voted 5–0 to make them mandatory at both housing sites.

Historic District

A Real 32-Foot Height Limit

Developers used hillside slope rules to reach 57 feet in a 32-foot zone. We got the loophole closed — height in the historic district is now measured from the street.

View Protection

ViewSync

SOS built ViewSync to measure a project's view impact from real elevation data. After a multi-step path, the City adopted it — developers must now use it before approval.

A protected hillside view over Sausalito and the bay

View Protection

View Protection Standards

The City adopted view-protection standards 5–0 — developers must now measure a project's impact on public views, using ViewSync, before it can be approved.

Stand With

Food on the Table

When a federal shutdown left about 280 Sausalito neighbors short on food aid, SOS supporters raised $10,000 in a week — and the City Council matched it.

A skeleton figure seated outside holding a hand-lettered sign — 'I had to wait too long for senior housing in Sausalito' — beside a green 'Yes on K · Affordable Senior Housing' sign.

Affordable Housing

Passed Measure K / MLK Park

We backed affordable housing on the city's own sites and won a pledge to keep it to 32 feet. The RFPs are out and it's getting built — proof that more homes and human scale aren't a trade-off.

A map of the Sausalito Historic District labeled 'Saved from SB 79,' showing the half- and quarter-mile transit zones around the ferry terminal.

State Legislation

SB 79 — Defending the Historic District

A state housing law would have allowed 55-foot buildings by right across the historic district. As part of a statewide coalition, we helped strike the rule that swept us in — now state law.

Historic District

Alta Mira

A 630-signature petition stopped a 153-unit proposal above downtown — and the Alta Mira site was removed as a housing opportunity site.