Marin County evicted a man living in a bus on Binford Road in Novato and seized the vehicle he called home. The yearslong saga cost the county almost $100,000 and included numerous cleanups and court battles.
It ended as a lose-lose for both parties.
The reason? Sean Derning couldn’t keep his site clean, the county said. Since 2023, Marin has conducted 16 cleanups of Derning’s area, where property overflowed from his bus parked on Binford Road in unincorporated Marin County at a sanctioned RV homeless encampment…