This wealthy Bay Area beach town is battling to save one road. Billions of dollars in real estate is at stake
One of the Bay Area’s most expensive enclaves relies on a two-lane road that will be covered by rising seas in the coming decades. … A recent Marin County sea level rise report for Stinson Beach recommended the road, which is county-owned, be raised soon, because it’s often impassable during annual king tides now and is expected to flood during major storms by around 2050, when storm surge swells the lagoon, and during monthly high tides by around 2060 to 2075. … The issue is harder to ignore after record high tides and flooding hit Marin in early January, probably exacerbated by sea level rise. It’s part of a broader debate across the Bay Area over who will pay to shore up public infrastructure.
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