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The awareness of city and county staff, community residents and other local stakeholders to the City of San Rafael’s significant vulnerability to flooding and sea level rise was heightened through the Bionic Team’s Elevate San Rafael project as part of Resilient by Design. The deep research and conceptual designs developed by the Bionic team, alongside […]

All Bay Collective (ABC) team member and UC Berkeley Professor Kristina Hill worked with the East Oakland Neighborhood Initiative to explore groundwater conditions in East Oakland as part of a semester-long case study for graduate students. Kristina has been working with her students to map soil contamination in relation to groundwater flow directions, and continue to

Since the Resilient by Design Challenge ended, graduates from the “Designing Our Own Solutions” course developed as part of the challenge, continued the work together to advance resilience strategies.  They formed a steering committee and launched a new organization called The Marin City’s People’s Plan with seed funding of $250,000. The steering committee practices deep

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) received an SB1 Advanced Adaptation Planning Grant from Caltrans, and is providing matching funds, to conduct a detailed sea level rise and flooding analysis for the Dumbarton Bridge West Approach and the impacted areas of the cities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Through this analysis, local stakeholders, property

The City of San Francisco is progressing on “The Islais Creek Adaptation Strategy,” a two-year community planning process in the Islais Creek area that will develop actionable strategies that address sea level rise and coastal flood risk through a robust public engagement process. Building on the Resilient by Design proposal and other city and regional

Coming off the energy and ideas generated through the Resilient by Design Challenge, Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia has taken the lead in bringing together key stakeholders, including the West County Wastewater District, to advance the concept of creating a horizontal levee and shoreline public access in North Richmond. The San Francisco Estuary Partnership(SFEP) is

State, Federal and local agencies are working together to implement components of the Public Sediment for Alameda Creek project which originated out of the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. One exciting project is the design for a 300 linear foot “Gravel Beach and Berm” pilot project at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in South