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Planning Commission reviews Sea Level Rise Action Plan as city readies regional design challenge
Summary
City planning staff presented a Sea Level Rise Action Plan recommending citywide vulnerability assessments, a regional design challenge and a citywide adaptation plan; staff urged using 36 inches for CEQA planning and considering a 66‑inch upper bound for long‑range adaptation. Commissioners pressed for near‑term fixes for low‑lying areas.
City planning staff on Thursday outlined a new Sea Level Rise Action Plan aimed at coordinating city departments and regional partners to prepare San Francisco for rising seas and stronger storms.
"This document is a call to action," Gil Kelly, Director of Citywide Planning, told the Planning Commission, saying the plan lays out broad strategies rather than prescribing immediate solutions. Senior planner Diana Sokoloff presented the scientific basis and planning assumptions, noting that the plan uses the National Research Council's most likely projections as the planning baseline. "36 inches is the end of century projection, the most likely to happen projection, which is the number that we use for CEQA…
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