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DESCRIPTION:Novato Narrows report to be presented Thursday\nStaff Report From 
 IJ\nArticle Launched: 07/24/2007 11:40:09 PM PDT\n\nThe Transportation 
 Authority of Marin will present a report on the Novato Narrows project 
 Thursday.\nThe 7 p.m. meeting is in room 330 of the Civic Center in San 
 Rafael. For more information, call 507-2680.\nAll About Marin: Novato 
 Narrows could be designated a 'scenic highway'\nBrad Breithaupt\n\nArticle 
 Launched: 06/04/2007 11:56:06 PM PDT\n\nTHE NOVATO Narrows should not only 
 be widened, it should be declared a California "scenic highway." That's the 
 latest proposal that Transportation Authority of Marin staff is looking 
 into.\nMarin Supervisor Judy Arnold wants to know the benefits and 
 drawbacks of the state designation.\n"I'm not carrying the banner for it. I 
 just want to get the facts," she said.\nThe idea has been kicked around 
 before, but was revived by Petaluma Mayor Pam Torliatt, who said it might 
 be a way to protect some of the "pristine open space" that lines 
 101.\nAnother benefit, she said, is that the designation could free up 
 money to help pay for burying miles of overhead power lines.\nShe noted 
 that the change would require state legislation.\nTAM chief Dianne 
 Steinhauser said she wants to make sure that the designation doesn't 
 trigger any restrictions for the long-planned freeway widening or for 
 owners of land that borders the 17 miles of 101 from Novato through 
 Petaluma.\nIt may not rival Monterey's 17-Mile Drive, but it is a pretty 
 stretch of highway, lined by rolling oak-studded ranchlands, a state park, 
 the Silveira family's picturesque dairy cows, a patch of grape vines and 
 not-so-scenic elements such as a landfill.\nSteinhauser 
 said\nAdvertisement\nClick here...\nthe designation does protect "the 
 pristine nature of the corridor," but that goal may bring restrictions on 
 properties that border the highway.\n\n   \nSmaller is better, says Marin 
 Supervisor Susan Adams, who has asked county staff to look into having 
 garbage companies hand out smaller garbage cans that would also mean lower 
 bills.\nAdams says the small cans could encourage more recycling. Besides, 
 she says, she hardly fills the standard-sized 32-gallon cans.\nIt's time to 
 reward people for "living small," she said.\n\n   \nSMART needs to fix its 
 timing.\nIn April, SMART's bicounty board met in Santa Rosa to figure out 
 how it could woo enough Marin voters to pass its tax measure in 2008.\nLast 
 month, the SMART board met in San Rafael to talk about plans for a housing 
 development at Santa Rosa's Railroad Square, a controversy there, but not 
 here.\nIf SMART really cares about getting cars off Highway 101, it might 
 consider reversing the order.\n\n   \nThe May 6 edition of the "Damn 
 Gumption Tidings" was sent to us by an unnamed Tam Junction 
 reader.\nNobody's quite sure who wrote it, but it offers a barbed 
 tongue-in-cheek debate over the neighborhood's so-far-successful fight to 
 protect itself from a county proposal to designate the junction as a 
 possible site for building some affordable housing.\nThe county's idea has 
 not been warmly received by neighborhood activists, who say the area cannot 
 handle any more traffic. So far, they have won support from the county 
 Planning Commission and county Supervisor Charles McGlashan.\nBut the 
 newsletter has a different take: "Join Damn Gumption leadership and fight 
 to keep our commercial area a useless strip mall," implores one 
 article.\nIn another poke, the Tidings jokes about "Supervisor Charles 
 McGlashen" telling traffic-fearing neighbors to "have no worries" about the 
 affordable-housing project under construction at the old Fireside Motel 
 site along Shoreline Highway. "McGlashen" adds: "If you look at the place, 
 it is evident that once we get them in there with their belongings, they 
 will not be able to get out. There simply is no way for them to get to Tam 
 Junction."\n\n   \nThere were cake and kudos Thursday afternoon in the IJ 
 newsroom as colleagues gathered to honor Nels Johnson, who celebrated the 
 35th anniversary of the start of his career as a reporter and editor at the 
 IJ.\nFrom disastrous storms to wily politicians and from causes and deeds 
 worthy of praise and celebration to reasons for tears, Nels' journalistic 
 expertise, enthusiasm for reporting the news and love for Marin and its 
 people have helped keep IJ readers on top of local news.\n\n   \nMarin 
 Center Presents has closed the books on its 2006-07 year and the top 
 grosser was the Beach Boys, which drew a crowd of 1,879 people and netted 
 more than $16,000 for the county hall.\nAnother big money-maker was the 
 Soweto Gospel Choir, which drew an even larger crowd, 1,973 people while 
 netting $15,580.\nBox office losers last season were Willy Wonka and the 
 Chocolate Factory, which drew only 524 people and lost $15,230 and Drummers 
 of Burundi, for which 917 tickets were sold and cost the Marin Center 
 $19,800 at the box office.\nAfter 24 shows, the center made a modest 
 profit.\n\n   \nFor the record, Fairfax Mayor Larry Bragman and his dog, 
 Irish, were not identified in the town's Open Space Committee flier, 
 seeking donations to help secure more open land.\nThis columnist reported 
 last week that Bragman had paid for printing and mailing of the flier 
 because, he said, the town had loaned the committee money for the pitch and 
 he felt his picture gave the appearance of a town-paid political 
 promotion.\nBragman, who is up for re-election in November, had asked that 
 he not be identified in the caption. He wasn't. The caption read: "A hiker 
 & friend looking over the Wall property."\nBut he also had asked that the 
 mailer be reviewed by the town manager before it was printed and 
 mailed.\nWhen that did not happen, because the manager was on vacation, he 
 decided to pay for the flier himself.\n"I felt there was a mix-up," he said 
 on Monday. "I felt I needed to deal with it."\n\n\nAOL now offers free 
 email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.\n\n 
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SUMMARY:MARIN CIVIC CENTER}Novato-Petaluma 101 Narrows{Desination as scenic highway>Trans.Aut.M.
LOCATION:Can be scene from 101 in Terra Linda part of San Rafael \n\nhow long the 
 meeting is, is a guess
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