03.01202308/12/2025

Marin environmentalists, district officials debate Sausalito school plans

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal

Leaders of two Marin environmental nonprofit groups are urging the Sausalito Marin City School District to take a  slower pace and a more considered approach to a design for a new $32 million elementary school in Sausalito.
“We’re rooting for the district — we want this to be successful,” said Steve Moore, a leader of Friends of Willow Creek in Sausalito. “We’re just a little concerned on how aggressive the district

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03.01202308/12/2025

Marin environmental groups seek redo of Sausalito school creek plan

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal

Environmental groups and city leaders are questioning Sausalito Marin City School District’s effort to relocate an underground creek as part of a plan to build a new elementary school.

The Sierra Club Marin Group, along with Friends of Willow Creek, the Marin Conservation League and the Sausalito City Council, are calling for a redesign of the district’s plan to unearth the now-subterranean Willow Creek, a process known as “daylighting.”

The district …