Category: Bay Area Regional Initiatives
Unmasking Regionalism
Regional leaders say the Bay Area has built ambitious climate resilience plans. Now comes the harder task: funding and implementing them.
Radar Gap Filled on Marin Mountaintop
A new weather radar installation will help the region’s northern counties read incoming storm clouds, hours before they drop their rain.
Change Detection Made Easier with New Lidar Survey
A new high-resolution lidar dataset gives planners a powerful tool to track flooding, levees, and wetland changes across the estuary.
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Strong Leader, Light Touch: Caitlin Sweeney
Ahead of her retirement earlier this month, the Estuary Partnership director sat down with KneeDeep to discuss her achievements and the future of the Bay.
Unmasking Regionalism
Regional leaders say the Bay Area has built ambitious climate resilience plans. Now comes the harder task: funding and implementing them.
Radar Gap Filled on Marin Mountaintop
A new weather radar installation will help the region’s northern counties read incoming storm clouds, hours before they drop their rain.
Change Detection Made Easier with New Lidar Survey
A new high-resolution lidar dataset gives planners a powerful tool to track flooding, levees, and wetland changes across the estuary.
More Signatures Needed to Save Bay Area Transit
A coalition of transit advocates needs at least 200,000 signatures to put a measure on the November ballot to fund public transit.
The Race to Reinvent State Route 37
A sweeping plan to elevate SR 37 is underway, tackling chronic flooding, traffic congestion, and sea level rise while restoring Bay wetlands.
El Cerrito Bets on Car-Free Living
An East Bay city is building more than 700 housing units on BART parking lots.
Bay Adapt
A regional initiative led by the SF Bay Conservation Commission to adapt to rising sea level.
Reforming Rules to Speed Adaptation
Bay Conservation and Development Commission to vote early this year on amendments designed to expedite approval of climate projects.
Is Brooklyn Basin Emblematic of Regional Development Vision?
The 64-acre waterfront development adds thousands of new housing units to one of the world’s most expensive places, but questions remain about its future.
Coordinate or Fall Short: The New Normal
Public officials and nonprofits say teaming up and pooling resources are vital strategies for success in a climate-changed world.
Who Will Inherit the Estuary? Training for a Rough Future
The six-month program teaches students aged 17 -24 about the challenges facing communities around the SF Estuary, from Stockton to East Palo Alto.


