From CAI · November 7, 2025 · By Amy Kolb Noyes
Massachusetts released its final ResilientCoasts Plan, a 50-year strategy to help its 98 coastal cities and towns, along roughly 1,500 miles of shoreline, deal with flooding, erosion and rising seas. As CAI reported, the plan divides the coast into 15 Coastal Resilience Districts intended to get neighboring communities planning and seeking funding together; five of those districts cover the Cape and Islands. Deanna Moran, the state’s chief coastal resilience officer, described a whole-of-government approach in which many agencies, not only the environmental offices and Coastal Zone Management, share responsibility for carrying it out.
She said the plan builds on work towns have already begun and scales it up to the district level so limited money goes further. CZM Director Alison Brizius cited at least $13 in benefits for each dollar invested. Actions are grouped into near-, medium- and long-term steps.
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