Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program: Recommended Plan Released

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The Port of San Francisco and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finalized the San Francisco Waterfront Flood Study and produced a Recommended Plan, achieving a significant milestone in a nearly eight-year partnership! The Recommended Plan evolved from the best strategies, technical approaches, and public input from the 2024 Draft Plan.⁠

The supports both the development of a long-term strategy for a safer and more resilient waterfront, and the delivery of near-term improvements to defend the city and its shoreline from earthquakes, flooding, and sea level rise.

Since 2017, CMG, in collaboration with SITELAB urban studio, Pathways Climate Institute, Jacobs, Arcadis, and Civic Edge, has been working in partnership alongside City and Federal agencies to envision a resilient waterfront and enduring public resource for generations of Bay Area residents and visitors. Since the public release of the Draft Plan, CMG has supported the Port and USACE in aligning around plan refinements and changes.

San Francisco now has a clear framework for advancing efforts while allowing communities to continue to shape how resilience improvements look and function.

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Climate Resilience

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CMG’s mission to improve social and ecological wellbeing holds increasing significance due to the threat of climate change. Those less fortunate will be impacted the most, but resilient design interventions can help stop, slow, and reverse these effects. To protect people and ecosystems impacted by increasing flood, drought, and diminished resources, initiatives from large-scale planning to equitable community engagement can shift tragedy to transformation.

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San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program

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San Francisco has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine its waterfront—to connect and revitalize its communities, ecologies, transportation networks, and public space on the water. Like many coastal cities around the world, the city is challenged to adapt as sea levels rise and aging shoreline infrastructure grows vulnerable to seismic hazards. San Francisco is leading the way not just to meet this challenge but to embrace the opportunity. The Port of San Francisco embarked on the Waterfront Resilience Program (WRP) to undertake critical life safety upgrades and infrastructure improvements, adapting and strengthening 7.5 miles of the city’s shoreline. CMG is part of a diverse and collaborative team of engineers, urban designers, planners, and public engagement specialists working in partnership alongside City and Federal agencies to envision a resilient waterfront and enduring public resource for generations of Bay Area residents and visitors.