By Christian Leonard : sfchronicle – excerpt

The community is already highly vulnerable to storm-related flooding, and rising sea levels caused by climate change could destroy or damage hundreds of homes.

Since the start of the millennium, home values in one small, coastal Marin County community have surged at the fastest rate in the Bay Area, all while local officials are trying to figure out how to avoid losing parts of it to the sea.

The typical home in Stinson Beach, a tiny enclave of about 500 people along Bolinas Bay, was valued at an estimated $3.7 million in May 2024, according to data from real estate company Zillow. That’s more than five times the typical value in May 2000, about $688,000…(more)