San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
Contact
- Email: info@bcdc.ca.gov
- Phone: 415-352-3600
Description
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is a California state planning and regulatory agency with regional authority over the San Francisco Bay, the Bay’s shoreline band, and the Suisun Marsh. BCDC was created in 1965 and is the nation’s oldest coastal zone agency. Its mission is to protect and enhance San Francisco Bay and to encourage the Bay’s responsible and productive use for this and future generations. State law requires sponsors of projects that propose to fill or extract materials from the Bay to apply for a BCDC permit. In addition to minimizing any fill required for an appropriate project and ensuring that the project is compatible with the conservation of Bay resources, BCDC is tasked with requiring maximum feasible public access within the Bay’s 100-foot shoreline band.
Services
Permits
Permits are required for most projects and activities in the following areas: -San Francisco Bay, including its open waters, marshes, and mudflats -Most creeks, rivers, sloughs, and other tributaries that flow into the Bay and are subject to tides -The first 100 feet inland from the shoreline around San Francisco Bay and its tidally influenced tributaries (an area called the “shoreline band”) -Certain areas of the Bay that were diked off in the past, including salt ponds, duck hunting preserves, game refuges, and other managed wetlands -Large areas within Suisun Marsh, including levees, waterways, marshes, and low-lying grasslands
Launch service: Permits