The The Coastal Commission adopted the 2026-2030 California Coastal Commission Strategic Plan on December 10, 2025. The 2026-2030 Strategic Plan centers the Commission’s mission to protect and enhance the coast and focuses on laying out a roadmap for the Commission to achieve this mandate in light of current and future challenges. The Strategic Plan identifies a framework of 5 goals, 15 objectives, and 72 specific actions to guide the agency’s work over the next five years.
The overarching goals of the Strategic Plan reflect our core values and priorities. They include:
Nested within these goals are multiple objectives and specific actions, many of which build on work from the previous Strategic Plan, but with new emphasis, additional specificity, or course corrections grounded in new information. Several of the objectives and actions are entirely new, reflecting new legal mandates and evolving priorities. The goals, objectives, and actions outlined in the Strategic Plan do not represent the full scope of the Commission’s activities; instead, they identify targeted efforts that will drive meaningful progress on the most critical priorities in the coming years.
Through consistent reinforcement of these collective goals, objectives, and actions, the Commission will take another incremental step along a path charted by the Coastal Act’s mandate and our shared vision: keeping California’s coast a vibrant, welcoming, and lasting part of life in our state—for everyone, now and in the future.
