Recall Fever Comes to Fairfax, and It's All Over One Proposed Building

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/13/recall-fever-comes-to-fairfax-and-its-all-over-a-housing-development/If you ask Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash, she doesn't love the idea of a 243-unit apartment building coming to her small Marin County town either. But the state has made such developments inevitabilities after decades of NIMBYism in places like Fairfax. The 7,600-person town of Fairfax is in the midst of a recall fight which could result in the removal next month of Mayor Lisel Blash and Deputy Mayor Stephanie Hellman. And much like the issue of the Great Highway closure coupled with upzoning proposals drove the effort to recall SF Supervisor Joel Engardio, Fairfax residents are steaming mad about an outsized apartment building that a Florida developer is fo