Good morning, {{first_name}}. Over the next two weeks, the Briefing is publishing four status reports on the slow-moving forces shaping 94941: a rising bay, a strained regional transit system, a state housing mandate, and a city working to attract new businesses downtown. The plans are in place. These pieces tell you where things stand.
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Bothin Marsh: a vision, a timeline, and a funding gap
The risk: Bothin Marsh sits at the edge of Mill Valley's flatlands, a natural flood buffer separating the city's lowest neighborhoods from San Francisco Bay. It is also one of the primary barriers standing between those neighborhoods and what sea level rise projections show is coming.
According to projections presented at the city's May 2026 Shoreline Adaptation Framework open house, a 4.9-foot inundation scenario puts Miller Avenue, Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley Middle School, the Community Center, Bayfront Park and Hauke Park underwater. At 6.6 feet, the flood boundary matches the historic tidelands of 1870.
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