The Bolinas Community Land Trust has reached a deal to purchase the Tacherra ranch, where it plans to replace 23 condemned structures with new farmworker housing. The trust and the receiver in charge of the property expect to sign a purchase-and-sale agreement within days.

Habitat for Humanity will develop the eight-unit affordable housing complex planned for downtown Bolinas, marking its largest collaboration yet with the Bolinas Community Land Trust. The project marks a strategic shift for the land trust, which had originally planned to develop the project on its own.

"The Bolinas Community Land Trust is attempting to raise more than $2.59 million to provide emergency housing using recreational vehicles for people who have been living in substandard conditions for years in western Marin.

The trust plans to install 27 recreational vehicles with utility connections and a new mound septic system on a 20-acre parcel at 130 Mesa Road. Water for the project would be supplied despite Bolinas’ moratorium on new water connections by reallocating water from other land trust properties."

A plan to build emergency housing for Bolinas farmworkers has cleared a major hurdle, with local utility regulators approving water service for the project despite the village’s strict limits on water consumption.