When Sausalito put its two biggest parcels out for development — the Corporation Yard on Nevada Street and the MLK site — a draft RFP quietly changed one word that mattered. A view-impact study went from something a developer “must include” to something they were merely “encouraged” to do.
These are city-owned sites, so they don't pass through the same design review that now protects views everywhere else in town. MLK was already covered by its 32-foot height limit — but Nevada Street had been left out. Why should the rest of Sausalito have view protection, and not these neighbors?
SOS caught the change — and catching it is much of the job. People busy with their own lives rarely track what's moving through City Council, even when it affects the view from their own window. So SOS leafleted the Nevada Street neighborhood to make sure residents knew what was at stake.
Then the response came from all over town — not just Nevada Street. 88 residents wrote in, many from other neighborhoods entirely, asking the Council to protect their neighbors' views as if they were their own. That's Stand With: no one in Sausalito should have to fight alone.
On March 18, 2026, the Council agreed, voting 5–0 to make view studies mandatory again at both the Corporation Yard and MLK. View protection is now built into how the city develops its own land — where, at 32 feet, a building largely stays out of the view to begin with.