The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council (TBRPC) is seeking support letters from its members for the purpose of seeking funding to develop a Tampa Bay Coastal Master Plan. The TBRPC desires to make application for the track one NOAA Coastal Resilience Challenge funding. 

If awarded, the TBRPC and its partners will facilitate a cross-jurisdictional and multi-stakeholder planning process to develop a Coastal Master Plan for the Tampa Bay region that illustrates the threats faced by the Gulf Coast’s most vulnerable areas. The resulting plan will equip the region with a prioritized list of feasible restoration and flood risk reduction project concepts, both structural and nonstructural, that will serve as guidance to equitably address the many challenges posed by high-tide flooding, storm surge, rainfall-related flooding, and future sea level rise in vulnerable areas, particularly historically marginalized, underserved, and underrepresented communities.

This four-year planning process and the resulting plan will be grounded in extensive community engagement, regional collaboration, the latest scientific information, and key social and ecological metrics, as well as pertinent tools, studies, and cost considerations.