About the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan
Ensuring governments and communities across the region are working together to achieve consistent standards for shared adaptation success.
About This Project
Rising sea levels from climate change are already encroaching along our shorelines and will only accelerate in the coming decades. The impacts of sea level rise – and resources to plan and prepare for them – are unevenly distributed across the nine-county Bay Area. If everyone “goes it alone,” we risk maladaptation – catastrophic consequences such as unintentional flooding of our neighbors, leaving behind communities most at risk and with the least resources to adapt, the loss of our essential and invaluable coastal habitats, and missing out on opportunities to find shared solutions that benefit both local communities and the region as a whole.
The Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan is a region-wide plan for the Bay shoreline that guides the creation of coordinated, locally-planned sea level rise adaptation actions that work together to meet regional goals.
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The Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan will set the region on a path towards more coordinated and consistent local adaptation planning that advances our shared goals together. The Regional Shoreline Plan Adaptation will be collaboratively developed and include:
- A Shared Regional Vision and Measures of Success
- Subregional Plan Guidelines
- Locally-created Subregional Adaptation Plans
- An Online Mapping Platform
The Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan is being guided and developed by a broad range range of stakeholders. This includes:
- BCDC Commission
- Rising Sea Level Commissioner Working Group
- Local Electeds Regional Task Force
- Advisory Group
- Broad Stakeholder Engagement, including partnership with Community-Based Organizations
In 2021, BCDC adopted the Bay Adapt Joint Platform – endorsed by over 55 cities, counties, non-profits, and more – lays out the actions necessary to protect the region from rising sea levels. The Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan is an implementing project of the Joint Platform and will serve as a model for the State of California for how numerous jurisdictions across a shared region can work together to achieve coordinated planning and implementation for resilience.
Timeline
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Project Kickoff
January 2023
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Consultant Onboarding
February - June 2023
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Vision and Measures of Success
July - October 2023
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Subregional Adaptation Plans
November 2023 -
February 2025 -
Guidelines and Incentives
March - July 2024
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Final Draft and Public Comment
August - September
2024 -
Adoption of the Guidelines
Anticipated October - November
2024
Questions or Comments?
Contact Jaclyn Mandoske (Senior Climate Adaptation Planner)
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