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Ocean Beach Master Plan

Creating a sustainable future for San Francisco's coast

Ocean Beach, one of the gems of the San Francisco landscape, faces significant challenges. Since 2010, ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅhas led an extensive interagency and public process to develop the Ocean Beach Master Plan, a comprehensive vision to address sea level rise, protect infrastructure, restore coastal ecosystems and improve public access.

The Ocean Beach Master Plan and Implementation Studies are made possible by the State Coastal Conservancy, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the National Park Service.

 

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Draft Recommendations and Online Feedback

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We’d like your input! This pdf (24MB) presents the Ocean Beach Master Plan Draft Recommendations. (It is shorter than the one in the previous post, which also provides a lot of background etc). The issues at Ocean Beach are complex and challenging. If you’re new to the project, please spend some time with the materials on this site to familiarize yourself with the background. A…

OB Master Plan Public Workshop #3 -- Draft Recommendations

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For those that missed Saturday's workshop (10/29) or want a review, here is the presentation. It provides some project background, info on the public process to date, and a summary of the Draft Recommendations. Stay tuned for lots more workshop materials, and an online feedback tool! Please note: the coastal dynamics and infrastructure animations don't work in this viewer. They are both available on this…

19th Avenue/State Rte 1 Improvements Meeting Tonight

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As mentioned at this saturday's Ocean Beach Workshop, the SFSU Neighborhood Task Force will be meeting this evening to discuss the 19th Avenue/State Rte 1 Corridor study, which is of interest as it may include some analysis of OB Master Plan transportation proposals.

Ocean Beach Master Plan Public Workshop #3

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Join us Saturday, October 29 at our next public workshop for the Ocean Beach Master Plan. We will be presenting draft recommendations that sketch out an ambitious vision to improve access, restore ecological resources, and protect critical infrastructure at Ocean Beach as sea level rise worsens erosion in the coming decades. The public will be invited to provide feedback on the recommendations, which will be refined in the coming months.

Public Feedback Summary to Date

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As the Ocean Beach Master Plan Team develops Draft Recommendations to be presented at the next Public Workshop (Oct 29th!), we are working hard to absorb and incorporate the diverse voices of the Ocean Beach Community. The presentation below provides additional distillation of what we have heard to date in our public workshops, neighborhood meetings, and online commentary. In particular, it shows which of the…

Public Workshop #2: Break-out Group Results

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Hello Ocean Beach go-ers! The Ocean Beach Master Plan team is busy at work processing the input from Public Workshop #2, and we thought you may be interested to take a look at the results yourselves. Photographed below are the ideas generated by the break-out groups at the workshop (please note: the names of individuals were blurred for their privacy). To see larger versions, please…

PRESS

  • SF Bay News 02/9/2015

  • USGS 01/2015

  • CBS News, 12/9/2014

  • SF Gate, 12/5/2014

  •  SF Gate, 12/3/2014

  • SF Chronicle, 6/20/14

  • Climate Central, 06/20/14

  • Curbed, 06/06/14

  • TakePart, 05/15/14

  • Taking Action on Sea Level Rise SPUR, 04/10/14

  •  Grist, 02/04/13

  •  SF Public Press, 02/04/13

  •  KQED, 02/01/13

  •  SF Chronicle, 11/02/12

  •  ABC Local News, 09/20/12

  •  KQED, 08/22/12

  •  OB Bulletin, 08/19/12

  •  SF Chronicle, 08/09/12

  •  SF Mayor’s Office, 07/26/12

  •  KQED News, 07/26/12

  •  SF Examiner, 07/23/12

  •  OB Bulletin 07/20/12

  •  SF Business Journal, 06/22/12

  •  NBC News, 06/02/12

  •  KQED, 04/10/12

  •  Planetizen, 03/28/12

  •  KQED, 03/26/12

  •  The New York Times, 03/24/12

  •  SF Examiner, 11/12/11

  •  KQED, 11/07/11

  •  OB Bulletin, 09/13/11

  •  ABC Local News, 09/05/11

  •  SF Chronicle, 07/15/11

  •  SF Chronicle, 07/14/11

  •   Sunset Beacon, 02/01/11

  •   The Bay Citizen, 01/25/11

  •  OB Bulletin, 09/21/10

  •  The New York Times, 09/13/10

  •   Sunset Beacon, 11/01/10

  •   SF Examiner, 07/08/08

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