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<br />10 <br />Figure 6. List of Assets in areas that have a 0.2 percent chance of flooding in a given year <br /> <br />Notes: See Figure 4 for an explanation of the asset impact ranking. The asset count for areas that have a 0.2 percent chance of <br />flooding in a given year does not include the assets areas that have a one percent chance of flooding in a given year. Source of <br />asset count: Local asset data provided by San Leandro City staff, OpenStreet Maps, Open Data and FEMA14 as represented on <br />Vizonomy. <br /> <br />Sea Level Rise <br />San Leandro will experience sea level rise due to climate change <br />Sea levels are rising as a result of higher atmospheric and oceanic temperatures across the globe. The <br />rate of sea level rise is expected to accelerate throughout the century, threatening coastal resources, <br />but projections are complicated by the potential for a substantial acceleration of glacial ice melt, which <br />is not currently accounted for in many global scenarios and may result in rapid sea level rise.15 <br />The Bay Area is especially exposed to the impacts of sea level rise because of the large number of assets <br />located on the coast that are significant to the local economy and communities. In San Leandro, the <br />assets most at risk from sea level rise include transportation assets, powerlines and cultural amenities <br />along the shoreline as well as the neighborhoods, parks and schools in the southwest portion of the city. <br />While the downtown core and area surrounding the San Leandro BART station remain outside of the <br />projected boundaries of sea level rise, the compounding effects of sea level rise could impede access to <br />the city via I-880 and significantly impact San Leandro residents that live west of this freeway. <br /> <br />14 FEMA. Flood Insurance Rate Map. (2009). 100 and 500-Year Floodplain. Alameda County. Effective August 3, 2009. <br />15 M. K. Buchanan, R. E. Kopp, M. Oppenheimer, and C. Tebaldi. (2016). Allowances for evolving coastal flood risk under <br />uncertain local sea-level rise. Climatic Change 137, 347-362. doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1664-7. <br />54