Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition Notice is hereby given by the persons whose names appear hereon of their intention to circulate the petition within the City of Sausalito for the initiative titled the Arts, Industrial & Maritime Preservation and Improvement Initiative for the purpose of amending and updating land use regulations in the City's commercial districts. A statement of the reasons of the proposed action as contemplated in the petition is as follows: WHAT'S AT STAKE: Sausalito's Waterfront and Industrial Zone is one of California's great working waterfronts. Liberty Ships were once built here and now artists, boat builders, and skilled trades work together side by side. Some live on houseboats and liveaboards as well. But it's under threat. Infrastructure is decaying, streets are flooding, and fields sit empty while storage lots hold rusty RVs instead of studios, workshops, and maritime businesses. A wellintentioned fortyyearold law is suffocating our waterfront. Ordinance 1022, unchanged since 1985, blocks the economic activity that artists, makers, and maritime businesses need to thrive, and keeps out the new energy and innovation the waterfront desperately needs to survive. Fixing its crumbling infrastructure will cost tens of millions. THE PATH FORWARD: Modernizing these rules is how we save it. This initiative unlocks new economic vitality while preserving the arts, industry, maritime, liveaboard, houseboat, and public uses that define it. Carefully planned, compatible development, respectful of our community's scale and character, can breathe new life into our waterfront and generate the revenue needed for it to thrive. Here's what this initiative does: FREES EXISTING BUSINESSES TO SELL WHAT THEY MAKE, CREATE, AND CATCH: Current rules prevent most Marinship businesses from regularly selling to the public. Fishermen can't open a fish market on shore. A baker can't sell bread from her commercial kitchen. A metalworker can't sell from his workshop. An artist can't sell from her studio. These are not hypotheticals. Many local businesses want to do this today but are stuck. This initiative fixes that. EMPOWERS MAKERS, CREATORS, AND MARITIME TO THRIVE: Forty years of Ordinance 1022 produced almost no new artist studios, maritime uses, or industrial spaces. This measure changes that: opening underutilized parcels to new and expanded workspaces for artists, makers, maritime enterprises, and light industrial uses. Complementary businesses once prohibited such as coffee shops, cafes and galleries are welcome. Together, this creates a dynamic ecosystem where creators, makers, and maritime businesses can thrive. GENERATES REVENUE TO FIX OUR INFRASTRUCTURE WITHOUT RAISING TAXES: Parts of the waterfront flood at high tide. Storm drains are failing. Carefully planned development generates new revenue without raising general taxes to fund essential infrastructure and protect our shoreline from sealevel rise. PUTS SAUSALITO BACK IN CHARGE: This measure returns routine landuse decisions to standard statewide processes with full public participation through the Brown Act and CEQA. It directs, to the extent practical, housing required under state housing mandates should prioritize unused parcels before building in parks and adjacent park infrastructure, and is compatible in scale, composition, and design with the art, industrial, and maritime character. EXCLUDES THE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT: These changes do not touch Sausalito's Downtown Historic District. Its boundaries are explicitly and permanently excluded. /s/ Fred Moore 202 Cazneau Avenue, Unit B Sausalito, CA 94965 /s/ Aaron Nathan 607 Coloma Street Sausalito, CA 94965 /s/ Ray Withy 99 Miller Lane Sausalito, CA 94965 INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE DIRECTLY SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS The city attorney has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure: TITLE: The Arts, Industrial & Maritime Preservation and Improvement Initiative, Initiative Revising Zoning Standards in the I and W Zones, Repealing the Marinship Specific Plan, and Revising Ordinance No. 1022 to Allow Future City Council Modifications to Zoning Outside the Downtown Historic District SUMMARY: This measure would revise Ordinance No. 1022, known as the Fair Traffic Limits Initiative, which enacted certain land use standards for commercial and industrial districts and prohibited further changes to zoning without voter approval. The measure changes Ordinance No. 1022 to allow the City Council to make changes to land use standards and zoning in compliance with applicable procedures in state and local law without further voter approval, with exception of the Downtown Historic District. For any such changes affecting the Downtown Historic District, voter approval would be required. Development standards prescribed in Ordinance No. 1022 would be modified for the I and W zones. The measure would increase the building coverage limits in these zones to 70% (up from 50% in the I district and 30% in the W district), increase the maximum floor area ratio to 3.0 (up from 0.4 in the I district and 0.3 in the W district), and change the sideyard setbacks when adjacent to R or H districts from half the height of the building to 15 feet. For the I zone, the measure would reduce the rearyard setback when adjacent to R or H districts from 30 feet to 15 feet, and increase the height limit from 32 to 47 feet. For the W district, the 32 foot height limit could be up to 47 feet for marine commercial service and marine industrial uses approved with a use permit. No new uses would be allowed to displace existing uses at the ICB Building or the historic Arques Shipyard. The measure would repeal the Marinship Specific Plan and would update provisions of the Sausalito Municipal Code (SMC) to align with this repeal and the changed development standards in Ordinance No. 1022 described above. The Marinship Overlay District provisions would be repealed. The measure would also repeal provisions in SMC Chapter 10.24 for the W and WM zones. Allowed land uses for the I and W zones would become identical and be set forth in SMC Chapter 10.26. The measure would change permit requirements for some land uses, and change which land uses are allowed. It would allow a number of new land uses in the W zone, including but not limited to arts uses, some manufacturing and industrial uses, public utility and safety facilities, bakeries, fitness centers, financial uses, and medical clinics. Commercial uses, including offices, would also be allowed in both zones as long they do not exceed 40 percent of the floor area. City regulations on number of liveaboard slips in marinas would be repealed, and instead governed by BCDC permit requirements and state law. The measure updates various provisions of the general plan, including the land use, waterfront and economic elements, consistent with the above changes. SERGIO RUDIN City Attorney 0006967840 May 13, 2026
