Bel Marin Keys, California

Bel Marin Keys is an affluent waterfront community located east of the city of Novato in Marin County, California. The community is an unincorporated area of the county with approximately 700 homes. Most of the homes sit either on one of the many beautiful lagoons or on Novato Creek. All of the lagoons have access to San Pablo and San Francisco Bays through the navigational locks. The community is in ZIP code 94949 and area code 415.

Bel Marin Keys was a planned community built between the late 1950s and late 1980s. Phases 1 through 4 were completed, but phase 5 was never built and instead the land is in the process of being converted back into wetlands, which were dried out in the early 1900s for farm land. Phase 5 would have roughly doubled the size of Bel Marin Keys had it been built.

Politics

In the state legislature Bel Marin Keys is located in the 3rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Carole Migden, and in the 6th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Federally, Bel Marin Keys is located in California's 6th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +21 [cite web | title = Will Gerrymandered Districts Stem the Wave of Voter Unrest? | publisher = Campaign Legal Center Blog | url=http://www.clcblog.org/blog_item-85.html | accessdate = 2007-10-20] and is represented by Democrat Lynn Woolsey.

Trivia

Bel Marin Keys did not have Cable TV until after 1999 while the rest of Novato had it in the early 1980s.

References

External links

* [http://www.bmkcsd.us Bel Marin Keys Community Website]
* [http://ceres.ca.gov/coastalconservancy/belmarin/index.html Bel Marin Keys Unit V Wetland Restoration Design Process Web site.]