Editorial: Neighbors’ plan for Santa Venetia property needs to be heard

Santa Venetia residents are joining forces in an effort to purchase the long-forlorn MacPhail Elementary School property.

The San Rafael City Schools district is putting the property up for sale and neighboring residents would rather it be turned into a community center than a site for condominiums.

These days, with Sacramento’s push to force communities to build more housing, it is a looming unknown regarding how many units and how many stories the 10-acre site near the end of the Point San Pedro Peninsula would accommodate.