Predictably, Tamalpais Valley residents aren’t thrilled with the county’s approval of plans to build a five-story apartment building along Shoreline Highway.

They are right to be upset, if not due to the bland design, but that there will be only eight parking spaces for 32 apartments.

The project at 150 Shoreline is the result of the county’s deal with the developer, which agreed to reduce the size of its plans to build a Marin City apartment complex in return for the county’s support for the Tam Valley apartment complex.

Missing in this exchange has been the public, especially in both Marin City and Tam Valley. Marin City residents have opposed the development and the Tam Valley residents haven’t exactly given the tall Shoreline project a warm welcome.

Also missing is good planning, not to mention parking.

In the deal, the county has agreed to waive its requirement that 51 parking spaces would be needed for 32 apartments.

Both projects are being fueled by Sacramento’s overhaul of local land-use planning, undermining local control, providing developers density bonuses while limiting requirements in size, height and parking and streamlining the approval process. At the same time, the state has mandated ambitious quotas for building housing.

The sweeping changes are aimed at solving the state’s housing crisis by getting more homes and apartments built and lawmakers keep passing laws that make building them sweeter for developers. Sound planning to make sure that the size, scope and design of projects complement their surroundings are being left in the dust. Out-of-scale development proposals are being delivered to planning departments across the county.

There’s little political initiative being displayed in Sacramento to restore any level of good planning, leaving local decision-makers — staff and appointed and elected officials — powerless to enforce reasonable requirements aimed at assuring that these projects are complementary additions to the communities that will have to live with their visual, traffic, parking and environmental impacts.

In response to concerns about the 150 Shoreline project, county officials are trying to come up with nearby properties that can provide the parking the tenants will realistically need, but Sacramento has decided they don’t. After all, the Assembly members from Agoura Hills, Alhambra or Anaheim won’t have to live with the predictable hassles of building such a large project in faraway Marin without parking. But locals will have to endure the predictable ramifications of those decisions made in Sacramento’s capitol offices.

There should be no debate that Marin has long needed more affordable housing. Zoning restrictions and no-growth politics have stood in the way, drawing criticism of Marin’s land-use policies for driving up the cost of housing, making it economically inaccessible for many, including minorities.

But Sacramento’s pro-housing rules have overturned restrictions and requirements that amount to commonsense in localities, sound land-use planning parameters that should be up to local decision-makers, not top-down edicts from Sacramento lawmakers.

The state policies that set the stage to build apartments without a reasonable amount of needed parking — even with its location being close to public transit — leaves the county, and likely taxpayers, scrambling to find land for parking. A no-parking plan might work in an urban setting served by frequent transit options, but that level of local service is not available in a small suburban county like Marin. Our county has local public transit, but not one that offers the convenience of frequency available in San Francisco.

Marin definitely needs affordable housing. In providing its reasonable fair share of the region’s needs, Marin has some catching up to do.

But the Tam Valley project, although having won the county Planning Commission’s OK, is a picture of how the state’s one-size-fits-all pro-developer edicts may be well-meaning in their goal, but in real-life translation they fall far short of being good planning — for future residents and those who have to live with the ramifications of out-of-scale development.