"The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, asserts that Burks was met with racially-motivated resistance once marina residents realized that the person seeking to relocate the floating homes was Black. According to the suit, the Marin County Community Development Department acquiesced to the community's racially-motivated resistance and invented numerous, burdensome regulatory requirements on plaintiff's projects."
"According to the lawsuit, Burks successfully relocated one of the floating homes from Docktown, a community of houseboats that settled on state property in the Redwood Channel east of Highway 101, to a marina in Sausalito. He then renovated the houseboat and sold it at a fair-market value. The suit states that at that time, Gary Star, who is White, acted as the face of the project due to his familiarity with the Saus"
Dietrick Burks purchased three floating homes from Docktown Marina in Redwood City in 2019 with plans to relocate, renovate and sell them in Sausalito. Burks alleges that marina residents resisted once they learned he is Black and that the Marin County Community Development Department acquiesced to that resistance. The complaint alleges the county invented burdensome regulatory requirements that stalled projects, forcing Burks to incur significant interest payments and operational costs. Burks contends that the county enforced fabricated regulations against him solely because of his race, violating his constitutional right to equal protection. Marin County denies racial motivation and says building policies are applied uniformly.
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