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Supervisors' committee records that existing city efforts will address grand jury sea-level-rise recommendations
Summary
City planning staff described a new mayoral sea-level-rise coordinating committee and technical subgroups and said the city will use guidance, CEQA and project-level assessments rather than immediate blanket building-code changes; the committee moved to register the board's response as "not implemented" for recommendations 3 and 12B and passed the motion by unanimous consent.
Gil Kelly, director of citywide planning, told a Board of Supervisors committee on May 7 that the mayor has established a sea-level-rise coordinating committee and several subgroups to lead economic risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, policy coordination, community engagement and waterfront adaptation.
"The grand jury report in our view was helpful in terms of elevating the issue of sea level rise and the need for the city to be very aggressive about responding to that," Kelly said, adding that the coordinating committee will provide a comprehensive sea-level-rise strategy later in the year and that technical guidance already adopted will inform capital planning.
Chris Kern of the planning department said a…
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