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Section 3: Adherence to Evaluation Criteria Is the resilience planning effort integrated with or can fast track project implementation/delivery? The resilience planning effort is integrated with the project’s development of the Shoreline Master Plan. Does the project have strong community and political support? The project has support from a number of local community groups, including San Leandro 2050, a non-profit oriented around climate equity and neighborhood representation in climate planning processes; San Leandro Bay-Oakland-Alameda Estuary Adaptation Working Group, a subregional collaborative of shoreline stakeholders; Baykeepers, a regional non-profit focused on sea level rise and bay conservation; San Leandro Tree Board, the volunteer group supporting tree planting and growth within the city; and Unity in the Community, a local community political advocacy group. BCDC, BayAdapt, and East Bay Regional Parks supports the proposal as well and will be participating as regional stakeholders in project meetings. Sogorea’Te Land Trust, an Indigenous Ohlone women-led land trust in the Bay Area, highlights wildlife habitat and ecological restoration as a main priority which is a central component of this proposal. Will the project help protect critical infrastructure? Development of climate adaptation strategies in this area will help to protect community assets such as schools and homes. Major roads and railroads were identified in the climate vulnerability assessment as potentially impacted by flooding and strategies addressing these sites will be included in the plan. Will the project benefit under-resourced communities, and will it help build or support leadership in those communities? In addition to transportation and health issues, climate challenges such as sea level rise and flooding will disproportionately impact frontline communities that already face multiple barriers to resource access. According to the 2017 City of San Leandro Human Services Gap Analysis, San Leandro’s highest rates of poverty occur within the Asian community, a large proportion of whom live in these southern neighborhoods. CalEnviroScreen 3.0 rates the two census tracks (6001432400, 6001433400) along San Leandro’s shoreline at 80-85% and 60-65% respectively for disproportionate environmental burden. BCDC’s Adapting to Rising Tides Program developed 10 community indicators for flood risk (language, vehicle access, housing cost, race/ethnicity, education, housing tenure, transportation cost, income, elderly population, youth population) for the Bay Area. Many of these communities in San Leandro exhibit multiple community indicators for flood risk, particularly around language, elderly population, vehicle access, and race/ethnicity. Furthermore, almost a quarter of San Leandro’s population do not speak English as their first language and cannot access services without translation into Spanish or Asian Pacific Islander languages. This communication challenge was highlighted in the municipal Gap Analysis (2017) and reveals the need for multi-lingual culturally-relevant engagement strategies. Not only will this project allow for deeper equitable outreach and capacity-building of these frontline communities, but the potential future development of capital improvement infrastructure projects based on the master plan could help protect these existing homes and neighborhoods.