Rhode Island Shoreline Change Special Area Management Plan (Beach SAMP) Project Overview

Project Goal

Through a public process help develop innovative and practical policies and tools for protecting and managing development along shorelines vulnerable to erosion and flooding

Long-term Outcomes

• Strong erosion and inundation policies that are publicly supported and implemented at state and local levels

• Provide best available information and tools to support sound decision making

• Improved understanding of potential impacts will spill over to other planning initiatives

Principles

• Involve all stakeholders

• Maintain transparency

• Use best available science

• Acknowledge existing uses and plan for a changing future

• Adaptive Management

Project Scope

1. Collection of New Research

2. Policy Development

3. Extensive Public Education/ Outreach Campaign

Stakeholder Engagement and Policy Development

Research and Data Acquisition

Coastal Resources Management Council

PROJECT MANAGER Grover Fugate, Executive Director CRMC

FEDERAL & STATE AGENCY ADVISORY BOARD

URI Project Management Team Jen McCann Michelle Carnevale

Jon Boothroyd Bryan Oakley

MUNICIPAL ADVISORY BOARDS &

TOWN MANAGER WORKING GROUP

STAKEHOLDER GROUP

Group of Community Leaders

Shoreline Change, Erosion and Inundation Mapping and Monitoring: Jon Boothroyd & Bryan Oakley

Economic Assessment: TBD

Ecohistory/ Anecdotal Accounts of Shoreline Change: TBD

TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES

(to review deliverables)

ADVOCACY & ENVIRONMENTAL

GROUPS Engineering Evaluation and Recommendation of Tools and Techniques for Effective and Adaptive Management of Shoreline Segments: TBD

Senior Project Advisors

Legal Analysis of Alternative Development Schemes or Techniques used to Address Shoreline Development and Rebuilding: Roger Williams University

Research and Data Collection

• Shoreline Change, Erosion and Inundation Mapping and Monitoring

• Economic Assessment

• Legal Analysis of Alternative Development Schemes or Techniques

• Engineering Evaluation of Tools and Techniques

Policy Development Scope

• Develop SAMP Regulatory Document

– Synthesize best available science and findings from research

– Incorporate other state efforts

– New or Amended CRMC Policies & Standards

– Recommendations for Other State and Local Government Agencies

Developing SAMP Document

Public Education/Outreach

• Communication Tools – Webpage

– Fact Sheets

– Social Media

– Library Lecture Series

• Regular Stakeholder Meetings

• “Group of Community Leaders” to help get message out

• Videos and Ecohistory– – Anecdotal Accounts of Shoreline Change and Personal Connections

• “Living with the Shoreline” Handbook/Guide

For More Information:

• Beach SAMP website: www.seagrant.gso.uri.edu/coast/beachsamp.html

• Team Contact: – Michelle Carnevale: M.Carnevale@crc.uri.edu

Next Steps:

• Regional “Issue Identification” Meetings

• Coordination Meetings with other State Agencies

• Next Stakeholder Meeting

– May/June

– Topic Based on Your Input