Costs soar for shoreline protections as SFO plans for rising seas
In 2015, the Board of Supervisors gave initial approval to a $58 million shoreline protection program to protect SFO from sea-level rise. But on Wednesday, the board’s Budget and Finance Committee approved an updated program that will now cost $587.1 million. City officials attributed the increase to new sea-level rise estimates and guidelines issued by the State of California…