Town of Tiburon View of Downtown Tiburon near the Ferry Docks View of Downtown Tiburon near the Ferry Docks Town of Tiburon is positioned in the US Town of Tiburon - Town of Tiburon Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California.
It is positioned on the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay.
The lesser city of Belvedere (formerly a separate island) is situated in the south-west part of the peninsula and is adjoining with Tiburon.
Tiburon is bordered by Corte Madera to the north and Mill Valley to the west, but is otherwise mostly surrounded by the Bay.
Besides Belvedere and Tiburon, much of the peninsula is unincorporated, including portions of the north side and the communities of Strawberry and Paradise Cay.
The populace of Tiburon was 8,962 at the 2010 census.
The city's name derives from the Spanish word tiburon, which means "shark".
Tiburon was formerly the southern end of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, which transported freight for transfer to barges for shipping to metros/cities around San Francisco Bay.
In 1884, the first postal service in Tiburon opened.
Tiburon has a Town Historian, Branwell Fanning.
Much of the undivided history material below is drawn from his "Brief History of Tiburon," presented in the Town of Tiburon's General Plan. Juan Manuel de Ayala saw a number of sharks near where he anchored the San Carlos in August 1775, off what is now Angel Island, or whether the tree-covered Tiburon Peninsula looked like a shark we may never know.
He titled the territory Punta del Tiburon, or Shark Point.
John Reed, from Dublin, received a provisional grant for much of Southern Marin, including the Tiburon Peninsula, from the Mexican authorities in 1831, and was formally granted the Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio in 1834.
Benjamin Lyford, who became the first territory developer with his Lyford's Hygeia, now Old Tiburon.
Corinthian Yacht Club House c 1894 Tiburon, California He made a deal with the Reed family for a right-of-way, blasted out the modern at Point Tiburon, and assembled a barns terminal to connect with ferries of San Francisco Bay.
Hilary's, Tiburon's iconic hillside landmark, which was originally a mission church titled for St.
The heirs of John Reed who held title to El Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio, the Mexican territory grant that encompassed the Tiburon Peninsula deeded the one-quarter acre site for $2.00 to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which assembled the church as a place of worship for small-town barns workers in 1888.
The last barns directed passenger ferry left Tiburon in 1941, but the passenger and freight trains ran until 1967.
The barns right-of-way was purchased by the City of Tiburon and is now the waterfront Multi-Use Path.
After years of hearings and studies, the former barns yards became the Point Tiburon housing and commercial project.
During its heyday the barns -ferry service brought many other industries to Tiburon.
Several of the biggest San Francisco Bay ferries were assembled in the Tiburon yards.
The Navy coaling station has played a prominent part in the history of both Tiburon and Bay Area at large.
As World War II loomed, the coaling station site was transformed into the United States Navy Net Depot Tiburon. This state of war facility was used for the manufacture and service of huge nets to stop enemy torpedoes and submarines from entering San Francisco Bay.
It is now the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies directed by San Francisco State University.
With all the seamen, sailors, barns workers, cannery employees, and small-town dairymen in Tiburon, the taverns and other attractions of Main Street were very prominent on Saturday evening.
Prohibition did not interrupt Main Street activities as the barns workers were able to signal the Tiburon depot as soon as any revenuers boarded a train or ferry headed for town.
World War II brought more citizens to Tiburon as the Navy assembled housing for Net - Depot workers on the site of the present Hilarita Housing, for sailors from submarines at an annex to the Net Depot (now Paradise Beach County Park).
The Little Reed Ranch was sold and Hawthorne Terrace, Del Mar, and Reed Heights subdivisions were well under way by the time the County finally began preparing a Master Plan for the Tiburon Peninsula.
A land-use density of two homes to the acre, plus areas zoned for apartements and duplexes, would have permitted 50,000 to 60,000 citizens to live in Tiburon.
Within the Tiburon town limits, the trail on the former barns right of way passes through Richardson Bay Park and next to the Audubon Society's Richardson Bay Sanctuary There had been various attempts to incorporate a City of Tiburon over the years, but they had all floundered to come to a vote due to the opposition of the large territory owners.
The only semblance of small-town territory use input came from the Tiburon Peninsula Coordinating Council (TPCC).
In 1963, after a number of adverse rulings by County creators regarding evolution on the Tiburon Peninsula, the leaders of the TPCC decided that another attempt to incorporate was justified.
The mapping committee started with the Tiburon Fire Protection District map as a base.
Certain areas, such as the Reedlands and part of Belveron Gardens, which were outside the Tiburon Fire District, but which wanted to be in the new city, were added.
In March 1964 an election was held to problematic the Town of Tiburon, and on June 23, 1964, the incorporation was final and a Town Council seated, and mayor elected.
To help plan for the future the Tiburon Advisory Committee was appointed, consisting of people who had been active in improve affairs.
After various enhance hearings it was finally decided that Tiburon Boulevard would remain a two-lane road east of Trestle Glen Blvd.
The four-lane bypass section from Highway 101 to Blackie's Pasture (the old Tiburon Boulevard became Greenwood Beach Road) was instead of in 1966.
LAFCO determined that Tiburon's sphere of influence would extend to Highway 101.
Eventually, those areas that wished to be inside the town/city limits were annexed, and the town/city interval westward to include the Reedland Woods, Bel Aire, Tiburon Crest and Cypress Hollow subdivisions.
The culmination of the Point Tiburon evolution in the former barns yards in 1985 signaled a change in the populace mix and needs of the area.
Following a large and prosperous Millennium Party the Town has pursued a policy to revitalize Main Street and the rest of downtown Tiburon.
The $250,000 material cost of the sculpture was donated by the Zelinsky family, longtime owners of many commercial properties in Tiburon.
Aerial view of the Tiburon Peninsula Many of these properties, while positioned on the Tiburon Peninsula, are outside of town boundaries.
Hence, it is the town planning commission and ultimately the Town Council that determines the extent that these lands can be developed. Major tracts of territory presently in various stages of planning or permitting include the Martha Property, Easton Point and Tiburon Glen.
Particularly active in opposing evolution is the Tiburon Last Chance Committee.
The Tiburon Planning Commission in the summer of 2006 rejected the expansion plans, claiming that Kol Shofar refused to engage in compromise discussions.
This brought the copy to the Tiburon Town Council.
The Jewish house of worship retained The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which threatened litigation (depending on the outcome). The Tiburon City Council tried to resolve the copy late in the 2006 by permitting a somewhat reduced expansion with restrictions on event sizes and hours and provisions to mitigate the parking, noise and traffic impacts.
Tiburon is positioned at 37 52 25 N 122 27 24 W. The serpentine soils of Ring Mountain and the Tiburon Hills are host to a unique plant community, including a several endemic or near-endemic species, prominently, the Tiburon mariposa lily, the Tiburon indian paintbrush, and the Tiburon jewelflower, as well as a number of other rare and endangered species Ring Mountain is also a momentous locale of Native American prehistoric sites, prominently modern carvings. Climate data for Tiburon, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Tiburon had a populace of 8,962.
The populace was spread out with 2,150 citizens (24.0%) under the age of 18, 295 citizens (3.3%) aged 18 to 24, 1,582 citizens (17.7%) aged 25 to 44, 3,037 citizens (33.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,898 citizens (21.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
6,406 citizens (71.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,518 citizens (28.1%) lived in rental housing units.
Belvedere / Tiburon was ranked by Forbes periodical as among the 20 most expensive real-estate markets in the United States.
Tiburon is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island and a regular ferry service from the Tiburon Ferry Terminal joins to the island Tiburon features various small boutiques and restaurants, catering both to small-town inhabitants and to tourists.
In 2004, Tiburon became the first town/city in the world to eliminate trans-fats from all its restaurants. Tiburon has two hotels: Water's Edge, a boutique hotel on Main Street, and the Lodge at Tiburon. In the United States House of Representatives, Tiburon is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. From 2008 to 2012, Huffman represented Marin County in the California State Assembly.
In the California State Legislature, Tiburon is in: As of October 22, 2012, Tiburon has 6,079 registered voters, as stated to the California Secretary of State.
Tiburon, Belvedere, and a part of Corte Madera are in the Reed Union School District.
The District has three schools, all positioned in Tiburon: Reed Elementary (grades K-2); Bel Aire Elementary (grades 3 5); and Del Mar Middle School (grades 6 8). All three have been recognized as "California Distinguished Schools" by the state Department of Education.
Hilary School, a Catholic major school for kids in grades K-8, is also positioned in Tiburon and serves students from Belvedere, Tiburon, Strawberry, Sausalito, Marin City, Mill Valley and other communities.
All three of Tiburon's enhance schools have gone or are undergoing substantial renovation and expansion.
Tiburon is in the Reed Union School District and the Marin Community College District.
Tiburon graduates attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley from 1908, when Tam opened, until 1958, when Redwood High School opened in Larkspur, with Reed Union School District in its attendance area.
The Belvedere-Tiburon Library is positioned in Tiburon.
Originally established in 1895 by the Temple Library Society of Tiburon, it was moved around a several times until settling in its current locale in April 1997. In 2006, Tiburon launched the Get Ready 94920 program, which seeks to make Tiburon the first town/city in the United States to train 100% of its people in disaster preparedness.
In 2014, Tiburon announced that they would be putting up tsunami warning signs down by some enhance coastal areas.
Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant (1918-1996) resided in Tiburon until 1988.
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