A Black entrepreneur who relocated floating homes to the Marin waterfront has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that Marin County discriminated against him because of his race.
The plaintiff, Dietrick Burks, purchased three floating homes from Docktown Marina in Redwood City in 2019 with plans to improve them and sell them in Sausalito.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, asserts that Burks was met with “racially-motivated resistance” once marina residents realized that the person seeking to relocate the floating homes was Black…