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AGENDA ITEM NO. _____

STAFF REPORT

CITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: ANDY HALL, CITY MANAGER ORIGINATING DEPT.: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MEETING DATE: JUNE 15, 2016 SUBJECT: REPORTS: FINAL CLIMATE READY PRESENTATION FOR

THE IMPERIAL BEACH SEA LEVEL RISE STUDY (MF 1025)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The City’s sea level rise (SLR) consultant, Dr. David Revell, will make a final presentation on the Imperial Beach SLR study that is funded by the Coastal Conservancy’s Climate Ready grant program. Staff is recommending that the City Council receive the presentation. There will be a follow-up report that will be transmitted to the City and to the Conservancy. Presentations of related SLR work that is being funded by the San Diego Foundation will be given at a subsequent time. FISCAL ANALYSIS: This Imperial Beach SLR study was funded by a $300,000 Climate Ready grant awarded by the State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) and the grant will expire on June 30, 2016. Related SLR work is being funded by a $70,000 Resiliency grant from the San Diego Foundation that will expire in January of 2017. DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council receive the final Climate Ready SLR presentation. RATIONALE: This presentation is a part of the final deliverables that is due to the Coastal Conservancy to satisfy the terms of the Climate Ready grant. OPTIONS: Option 1: Receive the Climate Ready SLR presentation. Option 2: Do not receive the Climate Ready SLR presentation and provide further direction

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ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: This project would be deemed to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Guidelines § 15262 (Feasibility and Planning Studies). The Second District Court of Appeal's (published) opinion in Ballona Wetlands Land Trust et al. v. City of Los Angeles (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 455 (Ballona Wetlands) took the issue of sea level rise out of CEQA as a subject area that required CEQA analysis. COASTAL COMMISSION: The issue of sea level rise is now discussed within the context of Chapter 3 (viz. § 30253) of the Coastal Act and the Coastal Commission’s Sea Level Rise Guidance document. The Coastal Commission has been kept informed of the SLR meetings and documents during the course of this study. c: file MF 1025

David L. Revell, PhD, Principal and Chief Coastal Scientist, Revell Coastal, LLC, 125 Pearl Street, Santa Cruz, CA revellcoastal@gmail.com

Juliette Finzi Hart, PhD, USC Grant, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, AHF 253, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0373 jahart@usc.edu

Danielle Boudreau, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, 301 Caspian Way, Imperial Beach CA 919132 dboudreau@trnerr.org

Nicola Hedge, Director, Environment Initiatives, San Diego Foundation, 2508 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92106 nicola@sdfoundation.org

Laura Engeman, San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative lengeman@sandiego.edu laura@sdclimatecollaborative.org

Megan Cooper, Deputy Regional Manager, South Coast, Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project, Co-manager, 1330 Broadway, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 Megan.Cooper@scc.ca.gov

Gabriel Buhr, LCP Program Manager, CA Coastal Commission – SD District, 7575 Metropolitan Drive, Suite 103, San Diego, CA 92108-4402: Gabriel.Buhr@coastal.ca.gov