Sausalito is worth protecting.

Save Our Sausalito was started by a group of neighbors in early 2024, when a proposal for a nine-story, 109-foot luxury tower at 605–613 Bridgeway in the heart of the Historic District shocked us into action.

What particularly galled us: the project was attempting to use laws intended to foster affordable housing to build something that was anything but.

We quickly gathered more than 2,400 signatures — and realized we needed something more lasting than a petition. We wanted to help maintain Sausalito's spectacular beauty and intimate human scale while finding real strategies for actual affordable housing.

We weren't the first. In the early 1980s, another group called Save Old Sausalito fought the same fight — on the same block. They helped create the Historic District, one of only twelve federally certified historic districts in California, and passed Ordinance 1022, which protected the Marinship from office encroachment. The Sausalito we love exists because of what they did.

We work the same way: community forums, land-use attorneys, biologists and historic-preservation specialists. We read the staff reports, check the plans against the rules, and make a careful factual case. Then we make noise.

Today Sausalito faces overdevelopment pressure again — in the Historic District and on the north end of town. But we're also seeing progress: two 100% affordable housing projects in development, and a strategy forming to preserve liveaboard homes.

We inherited a place worth keeping. Like the neighbors before us, we intend to hand it on.