Last Richardson Bay Boat-Dwellers Being Evicted This Week, After Years of Controversy

After years in which boat-dwellers in Marin s Richardson Bay have argued for their right to live on their boats, while city and county officials have faced pressure from residents to address what some see as a floating homeless encampment, the last of the anchor-outs are being kicked out this week.The New York Times reports today from Richardson Bay, the shallow bay off Sausalito, that the last of the illegally anchored vessels in the Bay will be removed as of Thursday, October 15. The dictate comes from the Richardson Bay Regional Agency (RBRA), following an agreement with the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), which entails the creation of a new mooring field that won t damage the protected eel grass on the bottom of the bay.The eel grass was just one of several issues that environmentalists have raised in recent years about the so-called anchor-outs, a steadily shrinking community of people living rent-free on boats that are often not seaworthy, and at worst may