Jutting into the Bay between Tiburon and the Golden Gate is a modest headland with a name that sounds like it was chosen by a little girl — Strawberry.
Across the top of Strawberry’s southern peak is a swath of elevated land crowned with a college campus. Most of the 127-acre property is slated for a large redevelopment, a town within a town, with housing, senior care, childcare, recreation and public parks. With a total of 337 housing units and the potential traffic of a commuter campus, neighbors have fiercely opposed the project, until this week.
At a Monday meeting of the Marin County Planning Commission, news arrived that a settlement had been reached between the developer, North Coast Land Holdings LLC, and the Seminary Neighborhood Association, essentially ending a 12-year campaign by residents to stop or alter the development. The commissioners seemed stunned by the news as they crumpled their prepared statements…