1 2023-2031 Housing Element Implementation
Zoning Text Amendments for Supportive Housing
City Council Public Hearing
January 21, 2025
Taylor Richard, Associate Planner
2 Project Background & Scope
✓ California Housing & Shelter Crisis
✓ City of Hayward 2023-2031 Housing
Element
• Action 13.1: Explore Innovative and Alternative
Housing Options
• Action 13.3: Allow Supportive Housing by Right
• Action 13.4: Evaluate Group Home Permit Process
• Action 13.5: Amend Parking Regulations for
Emergency Shelter and Low Barrier Navigation
Centers
• Action 13.6: Allow Low Barrier Navigation Centers
• Action 13.7: Allow Tiny Homes/Shelters on Public
Owned Property
• Action 19.11: Explore Safe Parking
3 Planning Commission’s Recommendation
Planning Commission unanimously voted to
recommend the City Council approve the Draft
Zoning Amendments with the following
modifications:
✓ Require a Conditional Use Permit for Safe Parking
✓ Create a neighborhood accountability group
✓ Add a definition for homeless
✓ Fix Miscellaneous typographical errors
4 Revisions to Draft Zoning Amendments
✓ Revise "Permitted Use" definition to include "By-Right" ✓ Revise "Dwelling Unit" definition to clarify units are permanent
✓ Revise “Emergency Shelter” definition are for individuals who are homeless
✓ Added “Homeless” definition that includes housing
insecure
✓ Revise “Safe Parking” Definition to clarify that individuals can sleep within their vehicles.
5 Revisions to Draft Zoning Amendments
✓ Require short- and long-term bicycle parking for SROs ✓ Require Safe Parking vehicles to park within striped
parking spaces
✓ Allow permanent or temporary bathroom facilities for
Safe Parking
✓ Clarify that Emergency Shelters shall be located 300 ft. or more from one another
6 Staff’s Recommendation
That the City Council approve the proposed Text
Amendments to the Hayward Municipal Code Chapter 10,
Article 1, 2, 24, and 28 (Planning, Zoning and
Subdivisions) associated with the implementation of
Hayward 2023-2031 Housing Element Actions, pursuant
to the accompanying Resolution (Attachment II) and upon determining that no further environmental review is
required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
7 Questions