FAC joins environmental access suit against Marin County
PETER SCHEER– FAC has joined a lawsuit against Marin County concerning an environmental dispute over Coho salmon. Environmentalist David Schnapf filed the CPRA suit last year, seeking records about the county’s adoption of an ordinance mandated by a countywide conservation plan. Although the 2013 measure was supposed to protect salmon flows, Schnapf and other critics say it is more protective of property owners than endangered fish. The controversial ordinance never took effect because of an