In Your Town for Sept. 13, 2023
ROSS
Council to review
planning proposals
The Town Council has scheduled hearings on two residential projects and two commercial proposals.
The residential plans call for a new pool and spa at 1 Pomeroy Road, and a automatic driveway gate, retaining walls and an ornamental guardrail at 128 Winding Way.
The business applications propose a wine tasting bar and takeout beer and wine sales at 3 Ross Common, and a use permit for a hair salon at 7 Ross Common.
The council meeting is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall.
SAN RAFAEL
Police accuse man
of robbery at home
Police arrested a man on suspicion of robbery after he allegedly attacked a resident with a computer screen he tried to steal.
The incident happened Monday night at a home on Octavia Street, where the suspect attempted to take the screen from the driveway, said police Sgt. Justin Graham. When a resident confronted the suspect, he allegedly swung the screen at the resident, dropping it in the process.
The resident followed the suspect until police arrived to detain him. Police booked Hamilton Harley Holman, 40, of San Rafael into the county jail on allegations of robbery and violating his probation terms. Bail was set at $75,000.
TIBURON
Board backs plans
for home additions
The Design Review Board has approved home expansion plans at two properties.
The plans call for a 923-square-foot, two-story addition at 118 Howard Drive and a 489-square-foot addition at 34 Noche Vista Lane. Both projects would involve variances.
The board voted 3-0 to allow the projects at its meeting on Thursday, said Christy Fong, a town planner. Board chair Suzanne Kim and member Jim Malott were absent.
REGION
Marin data shifted
to fix census error
The U.S. Census Bureau has corrected its Bay Area population data because of a mistake involving Marin County’s numbers, according to a Federal Register notice published Tuesday.
The errors involved figures the bureau officially released in December, when it reported the population of the San Francisco-Oakland urban area as 3.2 million. The correction brings the figure to 3.5 million residents.
The addition of about a quarter-million residents, as well as more than 100,000 homes, came from the San Rafael-Novato urban area, which had been counted separately by accident when it should have been deleted and merged with the San Francisco-Oakland urban area.
Because of similar errors, the bureau also increased the populations of the Atlanta and New Orleans urban areas.
The agency publishes a list of urban areas and their population and housing counts after every once-a-decade census.
— The Associated Press