Marin approves controversial rural housing linked to retail expansion

Forced to choose between preserving a historic 1930s building in Point Reyes Station and adding three apartments to the housing stock, county supervisors chose housing.

The supervisors voted 4-0 on Tuesday to grant the owner of Redwood Oil Co., a family-owned business of 24 gas stations and convenience stores, permission to convert a 215-square-foot cashier’s stand in a gas station into a substantially larger convenience store as part of the project. The decision gave the owner, Julie Van Alyea...