I'm not sure Marin County ever strove to be a center of commerce, or to offload housing onto other counties as a result. This is the main point here: surrounding counties caused this mess, they should fix it.
I would prefer to see state measures that require cities to tie housing development to commercial development and jobs growth. Or even for SB-827 to be modified to exclude cities/counties that have maintained a balance. This would exclude Marin from SB-827, but would certainly still include SF and Cupertino.
(The Sausalito lawsuit is a separate matter to this discussion; its success demonstrated the effectiveness of existing state laws for that particular development.)
https://carlaef.org/2018/04/20/we-sued-sausalito-and-then-we...
The Bay Area has really dysfunctional governance. We have 9 counties and lots of cities. Each one independently has incentives to attract jobs and offload housing to the other counties; though, some towns were incorporated specifically to prevent integration for racist reasons. The total result is that we have way more jobs than homes in the region, and unfunded pension liabilities, and mega-commutes, and advanced gentrification. It’s in the best interests for California as a state to override this whole mess with some reasonable baseline standards. That is what SB 827 was about.
https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/12/12945854/bay-area-cities-jo...
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-unfunded/ https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-raise-gdp-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/california-today-super...
https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sb-827-retains-an-awful-lot...