Climate Change in the Bay and Beyond: How Coastal Resilience Policies are Reshaping Infrastructure and Planning in Two California Cities

This session will look at two climate adaptation efforts in the Bay Area that use a risk-informed approach to craft resilience and adaptation solutions to meet an increasingly imminent need among coastal jurisdictions at the city and county level. At the same time, emerging policies, like California Senate Bill 272, which requires all coastal cities to develop a Shoreline Adaptation Plan, are elevating and advancing the resilience conversation by providing detailed guidance and new funding opportunities for local governments to perform adaptation planning. The session will detail new technology, methods, and science that local governments are deploying to assess risk and to right-size resilience strategies for public infrastructure, providing a roadmap for other jurisdictions to follow.