“Elevate San Rafael” is a new paradigm for responding to complex environmental change and simply what needs to be done: occupy higher elevations and raise the quality of life and social connection for everyone. It proposes evolving the city by combining time-tested approaches to coastal adaptation with a moral, financial and infrastructural agenda for large-scale preparation.
This strategic change and redefining the relationship to the Bay lends the singular opportunity to elevate all aspects of life: to physically elevate habitation and community bonds and dignity; to elevate one's social and financial position, and policy for urban change; and to lift infrastructure to new elevations and purposes, and allow for ecology to persist and expand.