Heidi Scoble, Thank you for your service.
The shortcomings of Sausalito’s Housing Element Advisory Committee (HEAC) have been a growing embarrassment for months. Several of the Committee appointees openly admitted that they had no idea what parcels they were recommending as housing sites.
So when the City’s top housing expert suggested using a smaller more experienced group to do a better job, many breathed a sigh of relief. The suggestion was backed by Mayor Kellman, top housing consultant Beth Thompson and others - but opposed by the same three city council members who just voted to site housing next to the shipyard.
Ironically, the same small group idea was advocated by Cleveland-Knowles during the General Plan process, before she voted to oppose it for the Housing Committee.
Scoble and Thompson together possess nearly 40 years in planning and housing expertise. However, these three city council members, with no professional housing experience themselves, rejected this attempt to improve the process.
Heidi Scoble, Sausalito's beloved housing expert and planner, and friend to the working waterfront, turned in her resignation a few days after her suggestions were rejected. We hope her resignation was not related to that flawed decision by the Council majority, and wish her well.