Shoreline Adaption Plan Meeting

Shoreline Adaption Meeting
Time: 9:30 – 10:30 am
Location: Marin Made
90 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito

Program: Conversations with Catie – Improving Sausalito’s Resiliency Together

Program Summary: Join the Chamber and Catie Thow Garcia, the City’s Resiliency & Sustainability Manager, to learn more about our ongoing Shoreline Adaption Plan, upcoming events, and recent grant funds the City has received. Catie tackles all things green (composting, recycling, solar, plants) and blue (sea level rise, eelgrass, blue economy) for the City, so come with questions and ideas for working together.  

Panelists include:

• Catie Thow Garcia, Resiliency & Sustainability Manager, City of Sausalito
• Janelle Kellman, Councilmember, City of Sausalito
• Michelle Orr, Sustainability Commissioner, City of Sausalito & local shoreline adaptation professional

This meeting is Free and open to the public. Please rsvp by 10/21/24 to chamber@sausalito.org

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Process Overview: As a community of 7,000 residents situated between Richardson Bay and the coastal mountains, Sausalito is vulnerable to the impacts of sea level rise. Water rising along our 2.5 miles of shoreline will affect a wide range of our physical assets, policy decisions and programs including infrastructure, housing, circulation/transportation, land uses, and economic growth. To meet these present and future challenges, the City of Sausalito is embarking on a community-informed Shoreline Adaptation Plan that aspires to protect our community from surface and groundwater flooding due to sea level rise, enhance shoreline recreation, maintain vital transportation and utility corridors, provide continued Bay access for water-related businesses, and enhance marshes and beaches with nature-based solutions. The plan will include an update of existing vulnerability assessments, documentation of community visions for the future, and a framework that identifies near-term, medium-term and long-term adaptation opportunities along the shoreline. 

Our community is a vital part of this plan, and we are committed to a robust community engagement process. The process will include pop-up events, focus group meetings, an online survey and community-wide workshops starting in 2024 and continuing through 2025.  

Stay tuned here for updates on the process and how to get involved!