Coastal Resilience Planning Project

Project Information

The Trinidad Community Coastal Resilience Planning Project (TCCRP) will develop the Trinidad Community Coastal Resilience Action Plan for the benefit of its coastal and marine ecosystems, coastal economy, visitors, and local residents. The City of Trinidad will collaborate with Planning Partners, community members and the public to engage in coastal resilience planning. Trinidad’s Prop 68 Coastal Resilience grant application was submitted in November 2020 was funded by the Ocean Protection Council in March 2022.

The City of Trinidad recognizes that community involvement is essential in coastal resilience planning to address existing and future coastal hazards in the Trinidad area’s natural, cultural, and built environment. This planning effort will engage the community to identify coastal processes and hazards, understand local concerns and priorities, consider and assess feasibility of potential solutions, and work with regional communities to develop projects and strategies to enhance coastal resiliency for implementation over varying time scales. The process will culminate in 2024 with a community-based coastal resilience Action Plan with conceptual designs for several priority implementation projects.

Public Meetings

The City will hold five public meetings to share Project information and collect community input.

Public Meeting 1

The first public meeting was held online on Monday evening, December 5, 2022. The City shared information about the Planning Project and gathered input from meeting attendees about what they love about Trinidad and visions for a resilient future.

Meeting notes and recording will be available here soon.

Public Meeting 2

The Trinidad Bay Watershed Council (link website) co-hosted the second public meeting on Monday evening, July 17, 2023. This meeting was hybrid, located at City Hall and online via Zoom. At this meeting, the Project Team shared information about the Planning Project’s Coastal Vulnerability Assessment, present scenarios for sea level rise, shoreline erosion, and bluff erosion, and gathered public input. View the Our Coast Our Future interactive Hazard Map to get familiar with this information and to explore scenarios for potential flooding and erosion in the Trinidad Area.

Meeting 2 notes and recording will be available here soon.

Online Feedback Opportunities

If you missed a public meeting or want to share more feedback with the Project Team, please use the link below.

• TCCRP Survey 1 – share what you love about Trinidad and your visions for the future. SURVEY CLOSED

Action Plan

The Trinidad Community Coastal Resilience Action Plan focuses on the development of an updated vulnerability assessment and adaptation strategies for existing and future coastal processes and conditions. Public input will drive the focus of which coastal processes and public resources are considered. 

The vulnerability assessment documents existing and future coastal processes and conditions to identify hazards and their potential impacts to resources. The coastal processes and resources evaluated in this assessment are listed below.

• Coastal Processes
  • Shoreline Erosion
  • Bluff Erosion
  • Coastal Flooding
  • Fluvial Flooding
• Resources
  • Public Access and Recreation
  • Critical Public Services
    • Gas, Electricity, and Communications
    • Drinking Water Supply
    • Emergency Services
  • Critical Public Infrastructure
    • Roadways
    • Water Distribution System
    • Stormwater
    • Wastewater
    • Harbor-Pier
    • Other Public Amenities
  • Historic, Cultural, Natural, and Scenic Resources

Important Terms & Definitions

• Vulnerability—The degree to which natural, built, and human systems are susceptible to harm. Assessing vulnerability is one of the key steps in understanding existing and future hazards and their potential impacts to assets and infrastructure.
• Climate Change Adaptation*—Making changes in response to current or future conditions, usually to reduce harm and to take advantage of new opportunities. Climate change adaptation describes actions that address the projected impacts. The goal of adaptation planning is to improve community resilience in the face of a changing climate.
• Resilience*—A resilient community is one that is prepared for current and future hazard conditions and experiences less harm when disasters happen. Resilient communities can also recover more quickly and thoroughly. A vision of what resilience means for the community can act as a guidepost for adaptation planning.
• *Adaptation Planning Guide