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.)