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Housing and Development Newsletter
The original impetus for the plan appears to have been Assembly Bill 691 in 2013, that mandated that “addressing the impacts of sea level rise for all of its legislatively granted public trust lands shall be among the management priorities of a local trustee.” Santa Barbara is the local trustee of state tidelands, that is, our beaches.
The California Coastal Commission and the State Lands Commission also piled on to help specify exactly what “addressing the impacts” should look like.
You can read ESA’s 36-page executive summary of the report at the city’s Sea-Level Rise Adaptation website.