The AIM Initiative, In Full
Not sure how to navigate this long document? Below is a plain-language breakdown of what’s in it.
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Why is AIM 266 pages long?
The new rules are about 8 pages. The other 258 show you exactly what AIM amends, deletes, or replaces. California law requires that we show every change in full context.
Here's what's actually in those 266 pages:
128 pages — the 1989 Marinship Specific Plan, repealed in full. The City's own 2021 General Plan already calls for this plan to be retired and replaced. Instead of waiting for the City to get around to it, AIM does that now. We have to show every page of what's being deleted, with a strikethrough across each page, so you, the voters, can see exactly what the initiative removes. That alone accounts for nearly half the document.
61 pages — existing law reproduced unchanged, for context. When you amend a statute, you have to show the surrounding language so readers can see where and how the changes fit. About 44% of the redline section is existing Sausalito law, copied in verbatim, untouched. We didn't write it — it's already in the books.
About 24 pages — the actual edits.
~8 pages of new language (additions)
~16 pages of language being removed (deletions in the redline)
That's the real scope of what AIM changes. Roughly two pages of deletion for every page of addition, because we're modernizing rules, not piling on new ones.
The remaining pages are formatting: section breaks, headers, the title pages, and the standard legal scaffolding every ballot initiative needs.
The bottom line: AIM is not a sweeping rewrite. It's a careful trim. The reason the document is long is that California law requires us to show our work: every line being deleted, every paragraph it sits inside, every cross-reference being updated. The amendments themselves are surgical: a few targeted changes to Ordinance 1022, focused updates to the Municipal Code chapters that govern the waterfront and industrial zones, and conforming changes to the General Plan.