Pollution Burden: Traffic, Limiting access in certain locations Public Facilities & Accesiblity: Public transit, active transportation, EV charging facilities, and park Food Access: Food diversion, education programming, local grown food Safe & Sanitary Homes: Older adults Safety, Housing support, Non-english speakers accessibility Physical Activity& Health: Green Space, Older Adults, schools Disadvantaged Communities: Food Access, Housing, Outerach, Funding, Pollution Key Themes
Hayward EJ Workshop #2 Mural Board Activities
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1 Mural Activity: Pollution Exposure
1 Effects of illegal dumping needs to be further addressed 2 Visual Pollution
3 Reducing amount of car traffic in certain areas (restricting access), specific concern raised was cars passing through Hayward
4 Limiting pollution exposure as a result of traffic
5 Particular attention to schools, multifamily housing, etc., people who are more vulnerable to pollution exposure 6 Planting more trees, landscape buffers for heavy traffic corridors 7 Public bicycle for rent close to the bus stop. I see some citites use them and it can help reduce pollution Attachment V
2 Mural Activity: Public Facilities & Accessibility
1 Affordable or free summer programs for children/youth 2 HARD offers scholarships, but they are hard to get and fill up quickly 3 One thing that creates an unsafe environment is homeless people sleeping at the park. There was an officer that worked for HARD to enforce rules + maintain safety. (@ Kennedy Park) 4 Fencing for parks (could be a tree buffer)
5 Public bicycles for rent close to bus stops. I see some cities using them and it can help reduce pollution 6 Discuss HARD's relationship/partnership to park development/improvements/maintenance 7 Discuss EV charging stations and EV facilities development 8 Infrastructure for bicycle storage, partnerships with big businesses for storage options 9 Electric bicycle for public use, and electric charging stations 10 Also, public-private partnership for EV charging (i.e., Home Depot, other large businesses) 11 Need to address public transportation safety
12 Policies for student safety on public transit and affordability for public transit opportunities 13 Childcare for public meetings such as this one
14 Adding signage at public parks (recycling, waste, etc.) 15 Educate renters about new policies/their rights in their preperred language with various methods of outreach.
Not all are aware of city meetings, but many residents could be reached through their childs school, door knocking, social media and so on
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3 Mural Activity: Food Access
1 Authorization of fruit stands/local small businesses in the neighborhood in order to increase availability of fresh fruit and freshly prepared foods
2 Allow pop up markets
3 Healthy meal + nutrition programs for children
4 in addition to childcare
5 especially in areas of low food acccess
6 Many markets such as 99 Ranch markets have hot food to sell in a day. At the end of the day, they throw out anything not sold. Can we connect those markets to provide surplus food to low-income or houseless people? 7 Providing education on health/nutrition programs, food entrprenuerships 8 Celebrating diversity in Hayward through food
9 Discussing carbon footprint of different foods and diets and promoting local grown foods 10 Discussing growth of local gardens for community usage 11 Educating on environmental justice aspect of how food is sourced Attachment V
4 Mural Activity: Food Access
1 Safety for senior residents and housing
2 Informing senior citizens on their options and can walk them through resources available to them 3 increasing information at senior centers
4 Providing workforce housing
5 stressed about the stability of their housing (i.e., rent increase) 6 Educate renters about new policies/their rights in preferred language + various methods of outreach. Not everyone is aware of City meetings but residents could be reached through schools (HUSD), door-to-door advocacy, social media, etc.
7 Working with schools/ school district (HUSD) to create and provide flyers in multiple languages regarding Affordable Housing Options for students to take home to families 8 Who can provide housing support? How do we support homeless, people with mental health issues, physical disabilities, etc.
Housing support comes from Housing Division + County; City funded Navigation Center 9 Helping seniors finance for housing i.e. further discussing bank loan options or ways to facilitate this Attachment V
5 Mural Activity: Physical Activity & Health
1 Tree buffers could help lower asthma rates, increasing green spaces 2 Partnering with school district for early health screenings 3 Public programs (schools) and accessibility to green spaces 4 Facilitate access to green spaces
5 Discuss how green spaces affect mental health
6 Advertisement of new senior center
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6 Mural Activity: Disadvantaged Communities
1 Discuss how public/mass transportation can affect disadvantaged communities such as an increase in noise pollution and what can be done to address this
2 Building better housing in lower income communities, nicer/desirable infrastructure 3 Lower income communities should have access to proper healthy foods 4 Partnership between City and industries (for example, campaigns/incentives for electrification); City could take the lead to approach industries
5 Adjusting disproportionate impact on lower impact communities 6 Some sort of fund or mechanism to encourage industrial buildings to update their technology to decrease pollution?
7 Who is applicable for housing support? What do we do with mental health disabilities or physical disabilities? Attachment V
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