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The Week in Mill Valley · July 19 – July 25, 2026
Zoning Administrator · meeting of Tuesday, July 21, 2026

ADU plan on E. Blithedale asks the city to exceed its floor-area limit

The week's one real planning fight, such as it was, sat on a short Zoning Administrator agenda: at 288 E Blithedale Avenue, the owners want to tear down a detached 329-square-foot accessory structure and replace it with a detached 1,000-square-foot Accessory Dwelling Unit behind the existing house, on a 6,229-square-foot lot in the RS-6 zone.

Because the ADU is large enough to fall outside the city's usual exemption, the application comes bundled with a request to exceed the adjusted floor area limit which is the piece most likely to draw pushback if neighbors weigh in. The plans also call for removing two non-heritage redwood tree trunks to make room.

The city listed the project as categorically exempt from CEQA and didn't publish a staff recommendation ahead of the hearing, so there's no signal yet on which way this leans. Nothing in the record indicates an outcome was reported this week oard or minutes filing to watch is where this one gets resolved.

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Public Safety · posted Wednesday, July 22, 11:23 am

PG&E flagged a power shutoff for parts of Mill Valley imed

The city's alert feed carried a PG&E warning Wednesday that a Public Safety Power Shutoff was planned for parts of southern Marin County, including pockets of Mill Valley, with a stated start time of 2 p.m.

Here's the catch: the notice's own headline said the shutoff would begin "tomorrow, 7/15/26" a date more than a week out of step with the July 22 timestamp on the post. That kind of mismatch happens when boilerplate alert language doesn't get updated, but it leaves residents with no reliable date to plan around from the notice alone.

PSPS events are preemptive, tied to fire-weather risk, and this one is explicitly partial not citywide. Anyone in an affected pocket should check PG&E's outage map and the city's alert page directly rather than trust the date printed in this particular notice.

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