Despite ongoing concerns from neighbors and the Point Reyes Station Village Association, county planners last Thursday approved permits that would allow a near doubling of the 23-year-old Health and Human Services building in Point Reyes Station, from 3,070 square feet to 5,241 square feet. Project architects knocked down the additions by around 1,000 square feet prior to a hearing last September, at which supervisors unanimously supported the expansion. Architects have since made further tweaks, including a more simplified, gabled roof. Even so, neighbors on Thursday questioned the need for the enlargement, given that they had yet to see any clear projections from the county of an increase in the number of clients at the facility in the future. “Renovation is absolutely called for,” said Jon Harada, a neighbor who, like many others, agrees that Health and Human Services should have a building adequate to serve West Marin’s indigent and at-risk clients. “The question is whether it justifies the size.” Since the plan’s unveiling last June, neighbors and the village association have blasted the expansion as too massive for the town’s rural character. But on Thursday, Health and Human Services’ director, Grant Colfax, reiterated the need for a bigger building to alleviate disability access and patient privacy problems. “[The current building] fits more in the developing world than, perhaps, what we would consider for Marin right now, in terms of what’s needed,” Mr. Colfax said, explaining that the current space does not provide enough privacy for conversations around mental health and substance abuse.  The county’s deputy zoning administrator, Jeremy Tejirian, agreed, saying that the tweaks to the building’s size and design would pass muster. “This is obviously an institutional building,” he said. “Designing it like a residence is not necessary or appropriate…and I think that the building as designed will fit in well with the neighborhood.” Mr. Tejirian further accepted the loss of four on-site parking spaces, to be recouped by street parking.