CITY COUNCIL MEETING
JUNE 4, 2024
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED
AFTER PUBLISHED
AGENDA
AGENDA Q&A LOG
AGENDA QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
MEETING DATE: June 4, 2024
Consent Item CONS 24-316
Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute the Eighth Amendment to the Purchase and Sale Agreement with Caltrans for Transfer and Development of State Highway 238 Bypass Properties that Extends the Deadline for the City to Dispose of the Pr operties by Five Years from 2027 to 2032 I see the extension is for 2027. Can we use this mechanism to review other CalTrans properties and review agreements especially in relation to management of property near freeways?
The Caltrans amendment being considered by Council this evening is specifically related to the agreement to dispose of the remaining 238 properties to ensure that development aligns with the City’s land use policies and overall vision for development in th e City of Hayward. While the City does not have jurisdiction to enforce property management on Caltrans properties, specifically near freeways, the City does work closely with Caltrans to ensure that proper maintenance of these areas is addressed. I would not recommend that the amendment this evening include any condition of approval related to property management of other Caltrans properties within the City limits.
Item #13
LB 24-015
Fiscal Year 2025
Strategic Roadmap
C
ity Council Mee�ng 6/4/24
Item 13. LB 24-015 - FY 2025 Hayward Strategic Roadmap
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have several comments on the Preserve, Protect and Produce Housing for All Priority.
Objec�ve 1: House and Support People experiencing homelessness:
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M1 and HM2: The metrics are missing the number of people not served, the ones who are turned away because of lack of funding and other resources. The numbers of unserved Iden�fies what areas the City needs to improve to achieve its Plan goals.
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M3: The Agencies funded should be held to the same standard of accountability as the City’s Shelter/Naviga�on Center and keep sta�s�cs on the number unserved as well as those served.
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oposed Special Projects
The City’s projects to address its homeless numbers are not up to Hayward’s high standards. The number of unhoused will con�nue to grow as rents and housing prices con�nue to increase. The City Council needs to think on a bigger scale; propose projects with enough capacity to provide housing and wrap-around services to all residents who need it, especially those who are about to become homeless. For most people, the shorter �me people are homeless, the less complicated and more cost-effec�ve it is to move them into par�al or total independence. I am an advocate for hotels/motels as a permanent solu�on. I suggest this issue as an appropriate agenda item for the HHTF –develop a recommenda�on on special projects that realis�cally provide long-term solu�ons to homelessness equal to the enormity of the numbers and diversity of the needs! Homelessness affects other City goals: Public Safety, Economic Growth, Vibrant Neighborhoods. Let’s plan with courage, compassion, and for the future! O
bjec�ve 2: Encourage the produc�on of housing for all by crea�ng incen�ves and removing development barriers:
Objec�ve 3: Protect the stability and sustainability of exis�ng housing:
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M4, HM 5, HM 9, and HM 10: This Plan may reach its most difficult housing targets – Low and very low- income- with segregated housing units. But the City must acknowledge the importance of inclusionary housing for low and very low-income residents in transi�oning them to the middle class. Changing the City Housing Ordinance to REQUIRE developers to build affordable inclusionary rental and home ownership units will achieve both housing equity and a thriving middle class that strengthens other City priori�es! The metric the Council and community need to know is, HOW MANY INCLUSIONARY UNITS WERE NOT BUILT BECAUSE THE DEVELOPER CHOSE TO PAY AN IN-LIEU FEE? Less equity, lost opportunity is the result.
R
o Aguilar
Hayward resident