The Kentfield resident’s work in defeating the Marincello project “was responsible for the creation of the Golden Gate national park district.”
Robert Praetzel, a Marin County lawyer who helped put a stop to the Marincello real estate project, has died at age 97.Mr. Praetzel was one of the leaders of the 1960s battle that stopped Marincello, a residential and commercial development proposal in the Marin Headlands. The land is now preserved as parkland.
Mr. Praetzel, along with his law partner Martin Rosen of Mill Valley, fought back against the planned development funded by Gulf Oil. It would have housed more than 25,000 people on 2,160 acres, Rosen said. “The headlands and the parklands out there, in my opinion, and Robert’s opinion, are much more important than any city,” Nancy Praetzel said. “We needed to hang on to that little bit of paradise.”
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