SAVE THE DATE - AUGUST 29th, 4-7pm - CITY HALL

It's time to get ready for the first public workshop by RE:BEACH!

Calling all sandy beach lovers! It's time to prepare for the first public workshop by RE:BEACH!

This global design competition consists of three talented teams coming to Oceanside City Hall on Tuesday, August 29th, 4-7pm. They will bring forward the most innovative, multi-beneficial, and feasible solutions to preserve sandy beaches in Oceanside. They need us to help provide feedback to ensure the best designs are considered to RE:SAND and RE:STORE our beaches. This workshop will allow you to collaborate with the design teams and provide input on their initial ideas before they move on to the next round of designs.

Check out this information about the three design teams you will have the chance to meet this August 29th and be sure to RSVP at REBEACH.org. We hope you can make it!

The Design Teams:

SCAPE

SCAPE is a landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. 

“The Coast is Core to the Community: We understand that the beach plays a central role in the identity of Oceanside—known to some as the “hub of Southern California,” the sandy beaches and coastal waves are primary attractors for a diverse group of residents and visitors. Shore tourism, including recreational and competitive surfing, beachgoing, pier walking, and coastal trails are at the core of Oceanside, yet the environmental systems, built infrastructure, and physical materials that support the coast and beaches are eroding and threatened with sea level rise and intensifying storm events. Dry beachfront is transitioning to intertidal conditions, past engineered coastal structures are at risk of failure, and the beachfront requires significant repeat inputs of sand to respond to coastal erosion. Without new ideas or intervention, Oceanside is at risk of losing the environmental asset at the core of its economy and identity—the beach.”

ICM: International Coastal Management

ICM is a coastal engineering firm headquartered in Queensland, Australia, who is well-known for its innovative, out-of-the-box problem-solving strategies.

“Our understanding of the need for the Oceanside Sand Nourishment and Retention Pilot Project is deeply rooted in our own experience of living and working on a long stretch of highly dynamic coastline (Gold Coast, Australia) that is a hub for tourism, surfing and a quickly growing interest in conservation and sustainability. We have learned to work with nature to develop cost effective strategies that have been scalable and transferable to other sites globally.”

Deltares

Deltares has expertise in the policy, science and engineering disciplines that make it possible to live in densely populated and vulnerable areas in deltas, coastal zones and river basins. 

“The first step for an innovative approach is to re-think the way we talk about our relationship with the water and the coast. The Project team believes in the need to change the current adaptation that displays a human-centric and nature-detached perspective into a more reciprocal language such as protect each other, host and restore. We need to change our proposals from nature-based solutions to nature-based thinking.”

We hope you can make it out this 8/29! Please forward this to your community. Thank You!