People have have been living on boats anchored out in Richardson Bay for decades. Now local governments are trying to remove them.

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Richardson Bay is located North of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, in Marin County. For the past few years, various local authorities have been confiscating and destroying boats anchored out in the bay.

The Richardson Bay Regional Agency and others have labeled boats as derelict and marine debris, before seizing them, and crushing them with an excavator. The result of these actions have left many people homeless.

Where there were once over 200 boats, now sits about 60. the remaining anchor outs are fearful that their boats will be seized, but are adamant that they will not leave the bay.

As if destroying people's floating homes isn't bad enough, some of the anchor outs have questions about the authority of the Richardson Bay Regional Agency to regulate the bay.

Richardson Bay is a "Special Anchorage Area" under federal regulations. some of the regulations that the RBRA and others have adopted seem to contradict the federal rules.

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