In 2023, California adopted SB 272, which requires Bay Area jurisdictions on the shoreline to develop sea level rise adaptation plans as part of a regionally coordinated approach managed by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). To launch this effort, BCDC spent the passed year working with regional stakeholders to develop the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP). The RSAP was recently opened for public comment and many local stakeholders submitted comment letters to guide the future of this document. SPUR signed this Joint Statement in partnership with dozens of environmental, climate action, and environmental justice advocates and community-based organizations to ask BCDC to uphold its leadership in this effort by maintaining the integrity of the RSAP, resisting efforts to weaken its Standards, and addressing the remaining gaps described above and detailed at greater length in previous letters during the public comment period.
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