Marin City Urban Wetland Community Visioning Project
Marin City, Marin County; North Bay
Vital Fish, Bird and Wildlife Habitat Program; Integrated Flood Protection Program; Shoreline Public Access Program.
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2023 UPDATE: Marin City Climate Resilience + Health Justice gathered Marin City residents' stories of lived experiences with flooding and other environmental concerns facing Marin City, and hosted youth programs to learn about these issues. They continued to build new partnerships to explore the potential for habitat restoration of a stormwater detention basin in their community. Restoration Authorit grant funds were used through December 2022, and the grant closed out summer 2023.
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2022 UPDATE: The grantee, Marin City Climate Resilience + Health Justice, engaged residents through youth programs and community events in learning about flooding and other environmental issues facing Marin City, and the potential for habitat restoration of the stormwater detention basin.
The grant of $100,000 is going to Shore Up Marin City's Marin City Urban Wetland Community Visioning Project to conduct a community visioning and planning process to restore a degraded stormwater detention basin into wetland and open water habitat in Marin County.
This is the first project funded by the Authority's Community Grants Program, which is an alternative to the Measure AA Grant Program. It was created to improve equity in the Authority's grantmaking, with a shorter application form and increased staff support throughout the application and implementation processes.
The Marin City Urban Wetland Community Visioning Project consists of conducting a community visioning and planning process for the restoration of a degraded stormwater detention basin in northern Marin City, an economically disadvantaged community within Marin County into wetland and open water habitat. The planning phases of this urban wetland restoration project are already underway, with Audubon California as the lead, and local grassroots coalition Shore Up Marin City as a crucial partner and driver of the project.
Shore Up Marin City has received funding from Audubon California to initiate community engagement but needs additional funds to lead a robust community engagement campaign that will inspire residents to be active participants in the ongoing visioning and planning for this urban wetland.
The project will weave together community engagement, local workforce and career development, and the opportunity for Shore Up Marin City to build organizational capacity through leading this project with support from Audubon California. The project aims to have community involvement closely align with, and directly inform, technical planning and design of the urban wetland.
More about the Restoration Authority's Community Grants Program can be found here.
