Tiburon fire agency gets green light to upgrade Paradise Drive station

In a screengrab from video, a rendering shows how the Tiburon Fire Protection District’s Paradise Drive station will look from the intersection with Trestle Glen Boulevard at left. (via Tiburon Fire Protection District)

The Tiburon Fire Protection District has won the go-ahead to demolish its aging Paradise Drive station and replace it with a new building that better meets the needs of modern firefighting, officials say.

The town’s Design Review Board approved the $5.7-million project in a 4-0 vote March 21, with Vice Chair Bryan Chong absent.

“The old station is coming up on 65 years, which is old for a fire station,” Greg Barton of Oakland-based LCA Architects told the board.

Station 10, at 4301 Paradise Drive at the end of Trestle Glen Boulevard, was originally built in the 1960s as a two-stall firehouse for volunteer firefighters and has since been built up to about 4,000 square feet including living quarters, on-duty staff and additional fire apparatus.

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