The Plans & Policies Database is intended to capture the municipal, regional, state and federal policies and implementation plans that influence stewardship decisions across the Bay Delta bioregion.
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Resource Assessment
In September of 2008, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City of San Francisco, invited 50 leaders from city and country, including California’s Secretary of Food and Agriculture, AG Kawamura, to convene three times over five months in order to prototype urban and rural collaboration in the development of a “foodshed” for the City.
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Roots of Change
Investment Strategy
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife this month approved the North Bay Baylands Regional Conservation Investment Strategy(link is external) produced by MTC, Caltrans, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership(link is external), the Sonoma County Transportation Authority(link is external) and other organizations with support from scientists and members of the public.
Better known among the partner agencies as the RCIS, the new strategy outlines a comprehensive plan for protecting sensitive tidal marsh, freshwater marsh and upland areas that provide critical wildlife habitat across portions of Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties. These include shoreline areas along San Pablo Bay as well as historic baylands, where sea level rise is expected to substantially alter the ecological landscape over the coming decades.
By identifying strategic conservation investments that reconnect and improve marsh habitats and build landscape resilience, the RCIS is designed to complement existing conservation plans and to help guide planning for major infrastructure projects such as the long-term transformation of State Route 37(link is external) as well as for local governments, conservation organizations and land managers. Examples of potential RCIS conservation and habitat enhancement actions include:
Land acquisition and protection;
Habitat creation and restoration;
Restoration of creeks and rivers;
Restoration of habitat on public land;
Installation of wildlife crossings; and
Removal of fish passage barriers.
Better known among the partner agencies as the RCIS, the new strategy outlines a comprehensive plan for protecting sensitive tidal marsh, freshwater marsh and upland areas that provide critical wildlife habitat across portions of Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties. These include shoreline areas along San Pablo Bay as well as historic baylands, where sea level rise is expected to substantially alter the ecological landscape over the coming decades.
By identifying strategic conservation investments that reconnect and improve marsh habitats and build landscape resilience, the RCIS is designed to complement existing conservation plans and to help guide planning for major infrastructure projects such as the long-term transformation of State Route 37(link is external) as well as for local governments, conservation organizations and land managers. Examples of potential RCIS conservation and habitat enhancement actions include:
Land acquisition and protection;
Habitat creation and restoration;
Restoration of creeks and rivers;
Restoration of habitat on public land;
Installation of wildlife crossings; and
Removal of fish passage barriers.
San Pablo Bay
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San Francisco Estuary Partnership, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA), Caltrans
Adaptation Framework
As sea levels continue to rise, communities will need to adapt the San Francisco Bay shoreline to create greater social, economic, and ecological resilience. A critical tool for this process is a science-based framework for developing adaptation strategies that are appropriate for the diverse shoreline of the Bay and that take advantage of natural processes. This project proposes such a framework: Operational Landscape Units for San Francisco Bay.
Bay Area shoreline
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May 29, 2024 04:43 PM GMT+0
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San Francisco Estuary Institute
Adaptation Plan
The California Climate Adaptation Strategy, mandated by Assembly Bill 1482 (Gordon, 2015), links together the state’s existing and planned climate adaptation efforts, showing how they fit together to achieve California’s six climate resilience priorities. The Strategy is organized around outcome-based priorities, enabling a coordinated, integrated approach to building climate resilience.
California
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California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
Conservation
California’s lands and coastal waters are home to nature found nowhere else on Earth. These ecosystems sustain our communities, support our economy, provide for our recreation, and anchor our history, culture, and traditions. Yet, California’s incredible nature is under threat. Climate change and other stressors destabilize our ecosystems, our communities, and our livelihoods. Conserving our natural areas is essential for the continued growth and success of California’s communities. At the same time, protecting our natural areas can both build climate resilience and reduce climate change impacts.
In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued the Nature-Based Solutions Executive Order N-82- 20, advancing biodiversity conservation as an administration priority and elevating the role of nature in the fight against climate change. As part of this Executive Order, California committed to the goal of conserving 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030 (30x30).
California’s 30x30 initiative is part of an international movement to conserve natural areas across our planet, through which scores of countries have established their own 30x30 commitments. California’s initiative seeks to protect and restore biodiversity, expand access to nature, and mitigate and build resilience to climate change. This effort drives and aligns with broader state commitments to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, strengthen tribal partnerships, and sustain our economic prosperity, clean energy resources, and food supply.
For the purposes of California’s 30x30 goal, an area is considered a “30x30 Conservation Area” if it meets the following definition: Land and coastal water areas that are durably protected and managed to sustain functional ecosystems, both intact and restored, and the diversity of life that they support.
The best available datasets for identifying 30x30 Conservation Area lands in California assign protected areas into GAP codes based on the degree of biodiversity protection for conserved areas.* GAP status codes 1 and 2 are generally consistent with our definition of 30x30 Conservation Areas as they include areas with a high degree of durable protection and management for biodiversity or ecosystem values. For coastal waters, California’s statewide network of 124 Marine Protected Areas meet the criteria in the definition.
In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued the Nature-Based Solutions Executive Order N-82- 20, advancing biodiversity conservation as an administration priority and elevating the role of nature in the fight against climate change. As part of this Executive Order, California committed to the goal of conserving 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030 (30x30).
California’s 30x30 initiative is part of an international movement to conserve natural areas across our planet, through which scores of countries have established their own 30x30 commitments. California’s initiative seeks to protect and restore biodiversity, expand access to nature, and mitigate and build resilience to climate change. This effort drives and aligns with broader state commitments to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, strengthen tribal partnerships, and sustain our economic prosperity, clean energy resources, and food supply.
For the purposes of California’s 30x30 goal, an area is considered a “30x30 Conservation Area” if it meets the following definition: Land and coastal water areas that are durably protected and managed to sustain functional ecosystems, both intact and restored, and the diversity of life that they support.
The best available datasets for identifying 30x30 Conservation Area lands in California assign protected areas into GAP codes based on the degree of biodiversity protection for conserved areas.* GAP status codes 1 and 2 are generally consistent with our definition of 30x30 Conservation Areas as they include areas with a high degree of durable protection and management for biodiversity or ecosystem values. For coastal waters, California’s statewide network of 124 Marine Protected Areas meet the criteria in the definition.
California
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Getting to 30x30
Resource Protection Plan
This “Strategic Plan to Protect California’s Coast and Ocean: 2020-2025” provides a roadmap for this continued progress. It envisions all California communities enjoying thriving ecosystems, clean water, healthy food, secure infrastructure, readypublic access to the coast and ocean, and an inclusive blue economy that advances ecosystem health, offers meaningful work, and reverses past injustices. In the face of major challenges to our coast and ocean, this Strategic Plan offers four Goals to guide California’s efforts over the next five years (below).
California ocean
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California Ocean Protection Council
Resource Management Plan
By law, the Water Board is required to develop, adopt (after public hearing), and implement a Basin Plan for the Region. The Basin Plan is the master policy document that contains descriptions of the legal, technical, and programmatic bases of water quality regulation in the Region.
The plan must include:
• A statement of beneficial water uses that the Water Board will protect;
• The water quality objectives needed to protect the designated beneficial water uses; and
• The strategies and time schedules for achieving the water quality objectives.
The plan must include:
• A statement of beneficial water uses that the Water Board will protect;
• The water quality objectives needed to protect the designated beneficial water uses; and
• The strategies and time schedules for achieving the water quality objectives.
Bay Area
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May 28, 2024 05:10 PM GMT+0
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San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board
Resource Management Plan
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s Estuary Blueprint is a collaborative agreement about what should be done to protect and restore the Estuary—a road map for restoring the Estuary’s chemical, physical, biological, and social-ecological processes to health. The Estuary Blueprint does not hold regulatory authority but identifies consensus-based, collaboratively identified regional priorities, and tracks progress on achieving the Blueprint’s actions via publicly available websites and documents. The plan asks participating entities to commit to the actions, but each entity retains its own discretion to make decisions related to the San Francisco Estuary and is not bound by the findings or recommendations in the Estuary Blueprint.
Estuary Blueprint History
The first Estuary Blueprint (then known as the Comprehensive Conservation and Management
Plan) was produced in 1993 after several years of status assessments and policy discussions in which over 100 different stakeholder groups took part. It was the first plan to recognize that the Bay and the Delta should be managed as one Estuary and remains the only plan of such scope to date.
After 14 years of implementation, the CCMP was updated in 2007 to include new and revised actions while maintaining many actions from the original. In 2016, the CCMP was revised to reflect the changing context of Estuary management, with a new focus on the need to plan for and adapt to climate change. The 2016 CCMP created a closer alignment with the State of the Estuary Report, which tracks the health of the Estuary and is updated every four to six years. It also represented a major overhaul of earlier versions, reducing over 200 actions to 32 actions with a clear five-year time frame for implementation of each action’s tasks.
The document was retitled the Estuary Blueprint to reflect this shift. The 2022 Estuary Blueprint maintains the overall structure of the 2016 plan of actions to be carried out over five years, connected to longer-term goals and objectives with a target of 2050 for a healthy, resilient Estuary.
Estuary Blueprint History
The first Estuary Blueprint (then known as the Comprehensive Conservation and Management
Plan) was produced in 1993 after several years of status assessments and policy discussions in which over 100 different stakeholder groups took part. It was the first plan to recognize that the Bay and the Delta should be managed as one Estuary and remains the only plan of such scope to date.
After 14 years of implementation, the CCMP was updated in 2007 to include new and revised actions while maintaining many actions from the original. In 2016, the CCMP was revised to reflect the changing context of Estuary management, with a new focus on the need to plan for and adapt to climate change. The 2016 CCMP created a closer alignment with the State of the Estuary Report, which tracks the health of the Estuary and is updated every four to six years. It also represented a major overhaul of earlier versions, reducing over 200 actions to 32 actions with a clear five-year time frame for implementation of each action’s tasks.
The document was retitled the Estuary Blueprint to reflect this shift. The 2022 Estuary Blueprint maintains the overall structure of the 2016 plan of actions to be carried out over five years, connected to longer-term goals and objectives with a target of 2050 for a healthy, resilient Estuary.
Delta Estuary
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San Francisco Estuary Partnership
Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP)
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May 22, 2024 09:30 PM GMT+0
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Alameda County Water District
Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP)
This UWMP addresses the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD or District) water system. Most of the District’s water supply comes from a network of seven local, rain-fed reservoirs. This supply is supplemented with water from Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA or Sonoma Water), which provides surface water from the Russian River and to a lesser extent groundwater from the Santa Rosa Plain Subbasin of the Santa Rosa Valley Basin (California Department of Water Resources [DWR] Basin No. 1- 55.01). Some recycled water is also used for non-potable uses such as landscape irrigation, cooling towers, car washes, and toilet flushing.
This UWMP is a foundational document and source of information about the District’s historical and projected water demands, water supplies, supply reliability and potential vulnerabilities, water shortage contingency planning, and demand management programs.
The District’s last UWMP was completed in 2020, referred to herein as the “2020 UWMP.” This Plan is an update to the 2020 UWMP and carries forward information from that plan that remains current and is relevant to this Plan and provides additional information from the District’s 2023 Draft Strategic Water Supply Assessment (SWSA). Although this Plan is an update to the 2020 UWMP, it was developed to be a self-contained, stand-alone document.
This UWMP is a foundational document and source of information about the District’s historical and projected water demands, water supplies, supply reliability and potential vulnerabilities, water shortage contingency planning, and demand management programs.
The District’s last UWMP was completed in 2020, referred to herein as the “2020 UWMP.” This Plan is an update to the 2020 UWMP and carries forward information from that plan that remains current and is relevant to this Plan and provides additional information from the District’s 2023 Draft Strategic Water Supply Assessment (SWSA). Although this Plan is an update to the 2020 UWMP, it was developed to be a self-contained, stand-alone document.
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Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD)
RBRA included RAMP development as the first deliverable in its EPA-funded Eelgrass Restoration Project, currently underway in collaboration with Coastal Policy Solutions, Merkel & Associates, Audubon California, and Dr. Kathy Boyer’s lab at San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center. The RAMP was developed by Merkel & Associates during the fall of 2023 and is a technical document outlining a 10-year plan to restore, monitor, and manage eelgrass in Richardson Bay. It includes significant background, detail, and timelines for eelgrass restoration in Richardson Bay.
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May 15, 2024 12:27 AM GMT+0
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Richardson Bay Regional Agency
Climate Action Plan
Assembly Bill 1757 (signed by the Governor September 2022) calls on the Natural Resources Agency to update the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, in collaboration with the California Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The Natural Resources Agency will be soliciting public input to inform the updated strategy over the coming months through a series of public workshops and tribal roundtables.
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California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
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Adaptation Plan
This work captures how our regional agencies are responding to a wide array of climate hazards including sea level rise, inland flooding, water quality, drought, extreme heat, and wildfire and air quality. The report also identifies gaps and opportunities and poses questions for exploring a more integrated, coordinated regional approach to multi-hazard planning and technical assistance that best serves Bay Area communities preparing for changing climate conditions.
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Bay Area Regional Collaborative (BARC)
A consensus-based strategy comprised of 9 actions and 21 tasks that will protect people and the natural and built environment from rising sea levels. Rather than specifying individual projects, the Bay Adapt Joint Platform lays out regional strategies that focus on overcoming barriers and identifying factors for successful adaptation outcomes we want throughout the region. This platform, and the ideas in it, belong to everyone, and seek to serve everyone, now and into the future.
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Climate Action Plan
As called for in Assembly Bill 1757 (2022), the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Air Resources Board, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and more than 40 State agency partners collaborated to develop nature-based solutions (NBS) climate targets for 2030, 2038, and 2045 that contribute to California’s goals of achieving carbon neutrality no later than 2045 and protecting Californians from the climate crisis.
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California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA)
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The Williamson Act Program enables local governments to enter into contracts with private landowners for the purpose of restricting specific parcels of land to agricultural or related open space use. Private land within locally-designated agricultural preserve areas is eligible for enrollment under contract. The minimum term for contracts is ten years. However, since the contract term automatically renews on each anniversary date of the contract, the actual term is essentially indefinite.
Landowners receive substantially reduced property tax assessments in return for enrollment under Williamson Act contract. Property tax assessments of Williamson Act contracted land are based upon generated income as opposed to potential market value of the property. Prior to 2010, local governments received a partial subvention of forgone property tax revenues from the state via the Open Space Subvention Act of 1971.
Landowners receive substantially reduced property tax assessments in return for enrollment under Williamson Act contract. Property tax assessments of Williamson Act contracted land are based upon generated income as opposed to potential market value of the property. Prior to 2010, local governments received a partial subvention of forgone property tax revenues from the state via the Open Space Subvention Act of 1971.
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Developed to achieve the State’s coequal goals of a reliable statewide water supply and a protected, restored Delta ecosystem in a manner that preserves the values of the Delta as a place, the Delta Plan includes 14 regulatory policies and 95 recommendations. Collectively, these policies and recommendations address current and predicted challenges related to the Delta’s ecology, flood management, land use, water quality, and water supply reliability.
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Long Range Regional Plan
Per state law, MTC and ABAG share joint responsibility for the long-range regional plan – Plan Bay Area – and develop the plan with local and regional partner agencies. This partnership is critical to advance the vision of the plan, as many of the strategies necessary to make the Bay Area more affordable, connected, diverse, healthy and vibrant cannot be advanced by MTC and ABAG on their own.
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