Challenge
The San Francisco Bay shoreline is made up of over 100 cities and county jurisdictions connected by freeways, railroads, power lines, and municipal infrastructure. Residential communities, industrial lands, and critical habitats exist alongside each other—within an overlapping and complex regulatory environment—and all are vulnerable to extreme weather hazards. Preparing for these hazards is challenging and complex.
Solution
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, along with NOAA and other partners, initiated the Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) project, a collaborative planning effort aimed at increasing local and regional preparedness and resilience. Project partners used several Digital Coast resources to better understand sea level rise vulnerability and develop adaptation actions. The Sea Level Rise Viewer and high-resolution data allowed them to model inundation and sea level rise, from which they created risk maps. The ART program, which has expanded to all nine San Francisco Bay counties, has supported numerous local projects, launched new mapping data and tools, and helped foster a community of adaptation planners across the region.
