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Mill Valley planning commissioners urge redesign of 100 Evelyn Avenue plan over fire access and drainage concerns
Summary
At a Jan. 27 study session, staff and the applicant presented a proposal for a new home at 100 Evelyn Avenue. Commissioners and neighbors pressed the team to resolve fire-department access, off-site driveway easements and large earth‑export and runoff risks before approval; no final action was taken.
Mill Valley — The Planning Commission on Jan. 27 held a study session on a proposed new single‑family home at 100 Evelyn Avenue, where staff and the project team outlined a design that commissioners and nearby residents said raises unresolved safety and infrastructure questions.
Staff described the project as a roughly 2,000‑square‑foot home with a 340‑square‑foot garage and a driveway that would cross an adjacent parcel to reach Evelyn Avenue. "The lot coverage is proposed at 27 percent, which would require a variance," staff told the commission, adding the site would remove about 13 trees (seven protected) and require substantial grading and terracing.
Christy Torres, the project architect, said the team studied more than a dozen access options and aimed to minimize grading by siting the garage where elevation differences were smallest. "We are really, really interested in making this as fire resistant as possible," Torres said, describing noncombustible zones, low massing and measures to meet defensible‑space guidance.
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