Marin planning commission upholds Tamalpais Community Service District permit for three annual community collection days

The Marin County Planning Commission voted 6–0 on Aug. 4 to deny an appeal and sustain a deputy zoning administrator’s conditional approval of a Tamalpais Community Service District (TCSD) use-permit amendment that would authorize two annual debris days and one household hazardous-waste day at the district’s corporation and maintenance yard at 305 Bell Lane, Mill Valley.

Planner Easton Ehlers told commissioners that TCSD’s amendment request, filed Jan. 16, 2025, seeks to formalize events the district has operated for roughly 20 years: two debris days (May and October, 8 a.m.–1 p.m., with setup beginning 7:30 a.m. and takedown to about 2 p.m.) and a household hazardous-waste day (a May Saturday, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., with setup and takedown windows). Ehlers said the deputy zoning administrator conditionally approved the amendment on June 16, 2025 and determined the project is exempt from preparing an environmental document under the CEQA guidelines’ Class 4 categorical exemption (Section 15.304). Staff…