Managed retreats aim to protect the structures near the Goleta Beach by relocating buildings and other infrastructures to a better-suited location. Instead of preventing coastal erosion, managed retreats helps us adapt to the erosion while helping us keep our beaches and the recreational facilities on the beach. There is a project called The Goleta Beach County Park Managed Retreat Project 2.0 that carries out the retreats plan. It was the result of concerned citizens, community organizations, the Santa Barbara County, and interested agencies to find long­standing coastal protection for Goleta Beach. The intention of this project is to protect both the recreational facilities and public utilities while adapting to the coastal changes and being able to prolong life of the beach and its ecosystem as the shoreline moves (“Environmental Impact” 1).

      Just like hard control strategies there are some advantages and disadvantages to managed retreats. One of the advantages is that managed retreats are more cost effective than other control methods. Instead of building new environments, managed retreats are just moving structures around away from the areas at risk ("Managed Retreat”). Another advantage is that managed retreats keep the natural state of the ecosystem instead of alternating it to better suit our needs. By having the least amount of impact on the ecosystem, managed retreats allows the habitats to migrate and adjust with the shoreline, which is the purpose of managed retreats. However, there are also places where managed retreats simply wouldn’t work, for example, areas where there are too many infrastructures and not enough land to move to ("Managed Retreat”). In these cases, it would just be too much and too difficult to move the building or structure. Even in areas with more land and less infrastructures, by relocating means someone will eventually lose land.