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Section 2: Project Summary (Limit response to 300 words for each bullet) Executive Summary: The San Leandro Shoreline Master Plan will provide a framework for resilience to prepare for sea level rise and flooding. The primary goals of the project are to: • Create a resilient shoreline environment for people and ecology • Enhance the shoreline environment to reduce risk to critical infrastructure and built assets • Build social resilience in the community • Build capacity for future generations to adapt to climate change • Engage frontline communities with multi-lingual and culturally-relevant strategies San Leandro’s 2017 Climate Vulnerability Assessment determined significant economic, transportation, and public health impacts that could result from neighborhoods, schools, and businesses being flooded. Invasive plant species and up-shore groins and riprap have interfered with the natural sand shore process, in addition to successive winter storm events, which now potentially threaten several hundred homes with the breach of the adjacent levee. These overlay with the findings from the City’s 2017 Human Services Gap Analysis, which identified a number of frontline communities facing socioeconomic and racial disparities, particularly concentrated in the City’s southwestern neighborhoods along the shoreline. As the project lead, the City will partner with Unity in the Community and Common Vision, two community based organizations, around community outreach and leverage existing outreach work by San Leandro 2050, and San Leandro Tree Board. The City will also collaborate with the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), BayAdapt (the regional agency collaborative on sea level rise), the East Bay Regional Park District, other regional entities, as well as internally across city departments to determine the best course of action. The project will result in a complete master plan, with the intent that a second future phase of developing engineering designs for green infrastructure and other future construction could be pursued. Project Outcomes: The project will result in a completed Shoreline Master Plan that can be shared with regional agencies, neighboring jurisdictions, and community stakeholders. Project Activities: Project activities will include the following: • A background report from stakeholder interviews of city staff and community members to identify critical assets along the shoreline • Two community public workshops to introduce the project and to get feedback on draft strategies • An agency work session to get feedback on draft strategies • Development of draft goals, policies, and adaptation strategies • Development of second draft of the master plan • Presentation at city council meeting