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County staff recommend exploring HASPA membership to meet sea-level-rise planning requirements
Summary
Planning staff recommended Alameda County explore joining the Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency (HASPA) to leverage shared data, grant competitiveness, and technical work to meet SB 272 deadlines for sea-level-rise planning covering about 1.25 square miles of unincorporated shoreline.
Alameda County planning staff briefed the Unincorporated Services Committee on the county’s obligations under state law to produce a Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP)-compliant sea-level rise plan and recommended exploring membership in the Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency (HASPA) as the most cost-effective and collaborative path to compliance.
Ali Abbers of the county planning department summarized SB 272 (2023), which requires Bay Area jurisdictions to adopt RSAP-compliant plans by 2034, and noted the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) guidance and a January update that made $21.3 million available in SB 1 funding for planning and early…
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