Floating home in San Francisco Bay
Many people were shocked to see a house floating in San Francisco Bay on Monday. According to reports, it was a two-story houseboat that was towed from Redwood City Docktown. According to reports, 60 to 80 houseboats in San Mateo County were relocated following a 2015 lawsuit filed by a nearby resident attorney stating that houseboats are not allowed in state waterways.
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Many people were shocked to see a house floating in San Francisco Bay on Monday. According to reports, it was two storeyed house floating Being brought from Redwood City Docktown in San Francisco.
According to reports, 60 to 80 houseboats at the Redwood City Docktown in San Mateo County were relocated following a 2015 lawsuit filed by a nearby resident’s attorney stating that houseboats are not allowed in state waterways.
According to the San Francisco Standard, Edward Stancil owns the houseboat that people saw in San Francisco Bay. He was the last houseboat owner remaining in Red Wood City’s Docktown.
According to reports, the boat being towed was the result of a years-long legal battle between houseboat owners and the government of Redwood City, a Silicon Valley suburb of San Francisco with a population of 80,000.
In 2015, homeowners near Docktown filed a lawsuit against the city, saying that Redwood City’s Docktown Marina neighborhood, in which the residents lived, was illegal. According to reports, the frontrunner in the lawsuit was local attorney Ted Hannig, who still lives in Docktown.
A sequence of eviction attempts, legal settlements, and then lawsuits ensued. Ultimately, it was determined that houseboat residents were prohibited from living in Docktown, and the city was obliged to relocate their homes.
By July 2023, the community had reduced to only nine residents. Eventually, they too left, and Stancil was the last one to depart.
“It’s uncertain,” Stancil told the San Francisco Standard. “The thing is ready to sink. She was the largest houseboat they owned in Redwood City.