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Sea Level Rise (SLR) Checklist

Fill out the SLR Checklist if your capital project is in the SLR Vulnerability Zone and costs more than $10 million.

Office of Resilience and Capital Planning

What to know

Requirements

Sea Level Rise Guidance for Capital Planning supports public departments and agencies assess the vulnerability, risk, and adaptive capacity of capital assets to sea level rise.

The purpose of this assessment is to develop City assets that are better prepared for rising sea levels and thereby protect lives, the environment, property, and public investment.

City departments must complete the Sea Level Rise Checklist if their project:

  • Is in the Sea Level Rise (SLR) Vulnerability Zone
  • Costs more than $10 million

The SLR Vulnerability Zone represents the area potentially inundated by a very high SLR scenario plus a 100-year storm in the year 2100.

What to do

Check if your project is in the SLR vulnerability zone

Use the Sea Level Rise Data viewer to check if your project is located in the SLR vulnerability zone.

See if you are in a SLR Vulnerability Zone

Complete the checklist

Fillout the SLR checklist:

  • as soon as possible during the project’s planning and preliminary design phases
  • no later than 30% design

You can usually complete the checklist when a project has defined objectives, scope, and scale.

Instructions and guidance

Send the completed checklist to:

Melissa Higbee, Resilience Program Manager

melissa.higbee@sfgov.org

Next steps

Review and approval process

We will review the checklist and obtain approval signatures from appropriate department contacts and the Capital Planning Committee.

You'll receive an email if we need additional information, or if your checklist is signed and approved.

Resubmitting your checklist

Departments are recommended to re-submit a revised checklist when projects have experienced major changes  (for example, change in location or footprint, change in planning horizon, or change in adaptive capacity).

Contact us

Email

Melissa Higbee, Resilience Program Manager

melissa.higbee@sfgov.org

Additional info

For mapping and data questions

Alex Morrison, Resilience GIS Analyst alex.morrison@sfgov.org