West Marin’s housing crisis, and the future of affordable homes, may hinge on something as basic—and bureaucratically fraught—as septic systems.
In a county historically resistant to new development, zoning laws combined with stringent rules around wastewater management pose a formidable obstacle to construction.
Such is the case in Forest Knolls, where a property acquired by the Two Valleys Community Land Trust was intended to be a pilot project for transforming the area’s aging…