We invite you, indeed all of you, to again click on and contribute to our efforts to Save Martha.
There’s a bit of news to share: the family who owns Martha has dramatically reduced the price that they are asking for the property. On the one hand, this is encouraging. After so many years, the price, though still wildly expensive ($63 million, down from $95 million), has dropped as many problems remain: environmental issues, the 28 landslides that remain, plants and animals with special, protected status, unavoidable and hazardous construction and traffic issues should development occur, and, as we know too well, that fact that it is located in a high fire risk zone.
Be reminded, however, that there is another possibility: this price reduction could well attract other speculators who may attempt to carry on with the ill-advised plans to blanket Martha with development. Blanket development on a ridge top benefits no one.
This will only be a positive development when coupled with our collective efforts to battle development, continue to highlight the many problems that exist, then to arrive at a fair appraised value.
Tiburon Open Space (TOS) remains steadfast in our belief that these very real environmental problems make preservation the only viable path forward. And the only right one.
Please continue your support for TOS's efforts to preserve Martha for everyone forever. We need your help to carry on.
Call us if you want to talk.
Learn more here (Reprinted with the permission of The Ark.)
