Program Description
Implements Which
Policy(ies)? Responsible Departments
Supporting
Departments/Partners
Implementation
Timeframe Status 2024 Update Strategic Priority
EJ-1.1: Develop freeway-
adjacent greening
1. Program EJ-1.1: Develop freeway-adjacent urban
greening initiatives, including vegetative barriers and greenwalls, to reduce the impacts from Diesel Particulate Matter pollution on sensitive land uses located adjacent to major highways and roadways.
[Source: New Program, see
also CAP CS-1.5] EJ-1.1, EJ-1.2 Public Works & Utilities City Manager 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Cultivate Vibrant Neighborhoods (NP3) and
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-2.2: Require future
community parks are
connected
10. Program EJ-2.2: Update the Municipal Code to
require that future community parks incorporate a
connectivity assessment and active transportation
improvements [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-2.1, EJ-2.2, EJ-2.3
Public Works & Utilities,
Development Services
Hayward Area Recreation
and Park District Ongoing Not started
City staff coordinates with HARD in order to assess
connectivity and encourage implementation of active
transportation features and improvements. This
effort meets the intent of this program.
EJ-2.3: Support HARD Park
and Recreation Master Plan
11. Program EJ-2.3: Support HARD with implementation
of programs and policies outlined within the HARD Park
and Recreation Master Plan, with priority given to
programs focused on the central portion of the City of
Hayward. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-2.1, EJ-2.2, EJ-2.3 Public Works & Utilities
City Manager, Development
Services 2020-2040 Ongoing
City staff coordinates with HARD regularly in order
to support implementation and programs outlined in
HARD's Master Plan. This effort meets the intent of
this program.
EJ-2.4: Support
implementation of HARD
Park and Recreation
Master Plan
12. Program EJ-2.4: Support implementation of policies
and programs outlined within the HARD Parks and
Recreation Master Plan. [Source: New Program, City Staff] EJ-2.1, EJ-2.2, EJ-2.3 Public Works & Utilities City Manager Development
Services Ongoing Ongoing
The Planning Division routes all new large-scale
development projects to HARD to review for
consistency with adopted plans, and incorporates
Conditions of Approval as directed by HARD.
EJ-2.5: Identify
underutilized rights of way
13. Program EJ-2.5: Identify underutilized rights-of-way in the central portion of the City and develop a program for gradual conversion of these spaces for public
gathering. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-2.3 Development Services
Public Works & Utilities,
City Manager 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Cultivate Vibrant Neighborhoods (NP3) and
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)EJ-2.6: Support
collaboration between
public safety groups
14. Program EJ-2.6: Support collaboration and
partnership between Hayward Police Department,
Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams and HARD’s
Public Safety Division to ensure park patron safety.
[
Source: New Program, City Staff] EJ-2.5 Development Services Hayward Area Recreation
and Park District Ongoing Ongoing
HPD, HEART and HARD have an open line of
communication and work collaboratively on park
safety.
EJ-2.7: Regularly assess bus
stops and shelters
15. Program EJ-2.7: Perform a biennial review of local
bus stops and shelters to access the quality and adequacy of facilities. Develop improvement priorities based on the findings and coordinate with AC Transit to facilitate these improvements. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-2.6 Public Works & Utilities AC Transit Ongoing Ongoing AC Transit owns and manages the maintenance of
bus shelters. Staff coordinates with AC Transit
through AC Transit's Interagency Liaison Committee
(ILC) regarding transit priorities. The City has
supplemented existing shelters by installing simme
seats at bus stops that do not have seats or shelters.
These efforts meet the intent of this program.
Invest in Infrastructure (FP4) and Champion
Climate Resilience & Environmental Justice
(CP9)EJ-2.9: Incentivize EV
charging stations in Station
Priority Areas
16. Program EJ-2.9: Perform an assessment of the
location of EV charging stations across the City to identify priority areas using an equity lens. Update the Municipal Code to incentivize the placement of EV charging stations in Station Priority Areas.
[Source: New Program, City
Staff] EJ-2.9 Public Works & Utilities Development Services 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP2 and CP3)
EJ-3.1: Provide public
nutritional education
17. Program EJ-3.1: Develop and expand city programs
that are focused on public nutritional education. [Source:
New Program, City Staff] EJ-3.2 Community Services City Manager 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
EJ-3.2: Expand subsidized
food for marginalized
communities
18. Program EJ-3.2: Partner with local non-profits and
food banks to expand the availability of subsidized food programs for marginalized communities. [Source: New
Program, City Staff] EJ-3.2, EJ-3.3 Development Services City Manager Ongoing Ongoing During the COVID-19 pandemic, the City used both
general fund reserves and leveraged Coronavirus
Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
funding to partner with the Alameda County Food
bank for emergency food distribution. Since the
conclusion of that program in early FY2021, the City
has primarily funded food security efforts through
the Community Agency Funding process. In addition
to existing food security programs for seniors, the
City has supported a meal distribution program for
low-income residents of any age hosted at rotating
public facilities since FY23, and a unsold food
recovery and redistribution program beginning in
FY24.
EJ-3.3: Develop a City-
sponsored food delivery
program
19. Program EJ-3.3: Develop a City-sponsored food
delivery program for senior citizens and disabled
residents in Hayward that may have limited access to food banks and non-profits due to transportation impediments. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-3.3 Community Services Development Services 2020-2040 Ongoing The City's Paratransit program includes funding for
delivery to homebound adults through a Meals on
Wheels program. However, the program is funded
under Measure BB, which only allows
reimbursement for direct transportation costs. In
addition to this program, the City has funded food
distribution to seniors through two location-based
senior meal programs since 2019. The Community
Services Commission will evaluate an application for
non-transportation support to the Meals on Wheels
programs as part of the FY2026 community agency
funding (CAF) process.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
Environmental Justice Element
Attachment XI
1 EJ-1.2: Establish an Air
Filtration Grant program
2. Program EJ-1.2: Establish an Air Filtration Grant
program for low-income residents, allowing for free
indoor air filtration improvements to qualifying
community members. Coordinate with the Bay Area Air
Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to explore
opportunities to collaborate on existing initiatives.
[Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-1.3 Public Works & Utilities
Bay Area Air Quality
Management District, City
Manager 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-3.4: Partner to support
circular economy and
expand food access
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All In Eats and other programs intended to support the
circular food economy and expand food access. Develop a “Nutritional Resources” informational flyer that outlines Federal, State, and local food and nutritional resources for low-income residents. Disseminate the “Nutritional
Resources” flyer by posting it on the City’s official social media and dispersing it as a “take-home” document to be provided for all families of children through the public EJ-3.3 Public Works & Utilities
Development Services,
Community Services
Alameda County
Administrator’s Office
Ongoing Partially complete.
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Initiated. However; in 2022, the City lead an
initiative to coordinate over 30 Hayward and nearby
organizations to plan efforts to expand food access in
Hayward through partnerships. The City hosted 3
working groups over the course of one year and
developed a Food Action Plan Report to highlight top
priorities for efforts. Several projects and programs
developed out of these efforts including a paid
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-4.1: Continue Minor
Home Repair Program
21. Program EJ-4.1: Continue implementing Minor Home
Repair Program for lower-income householders, including elderly and/or disabled homeowners, to make minor
home repairs to address health and safety problems.
(Source: Housing Element Program H-1)
EJ-4.2
Development Services, City
Manager
Community Services, Public
Works & Utilities
Ongoing Ongoing
The City expects to continue its partnership with
Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together East
Bay Network in FY 2025-26. Prior to FY2025, the City
had partnered with Rebuilding Together Oakland.
With the Oakland affiliate closing its doors in late FY 2024, the City has shifted these programs to
Rebuilding Together East Bay Network. For FY 2025-
26, staff expects that the Habitat for Humanity
contract will increase from $175,000 per year to
$245,000, recognizing increased staffing and
administrative costs. The City's contract with
Rebuilding Together East Bay Network will remain
at its current funding level of $150,000 per year.
Habitat for Humanity will carry out major repairs for
to an estimated 11 households, while Rebuilding
Together East Bay Network projects assisting 25
households with minor repairs.
EJ-4.2: Continue Tenant
Relocation Assistance
Ordinance and Emergency
Relocation Assistance
22. Program EJ-4.2: Continue to implement and, if
warranted, expand the Tenant Relocation Assistance
Ordinance and Emergency Relocation Assistance to
mitigate the impacts of identifying uninhabitable units through the rental inspection program.
[Source: New
Program, City Staff] EJ-4.3
Development Services, City
Manager
Community Services Ongoing Ongoing
Housing Division has engaged in continued
communication by conducting monthly meetings
with Code Enforcement, and maintaining open
communication with Building and Fire to identify
eligible relocation cases and providing information
regarding factors that related to emergency
relocation assistance and Tenant Relocation
Assistance Ordinance (TRAO).
EJ-4.4: Regularly meet to
discuss housing
23. Program EJ-4.4: Hold quarterly meetings on various
housing related topics (i.e. tenant resources, Residential Rent Stabilization Ordinance and Tenant Protection
Ordinances, foreclosure prevention among other topics).
Keep a list of attendees, population and housing
characteristics via survey to ensure that outreach is
targeted to Low Resource, high need areas and
households as determined by updated TCAC and/or
CalEnviroScreen maps
(Source Housing Element Program
H-20). EJ-4.4
Development Services, City
Manager
Community Services, Public
Works & Utilities
Ongoing Ongoing
The City of Hayward contracts with ECHO housing to
provide fair housing workshops in English and
Spanish which include a discussion on discrimination
based on source of income. In 2024, Echo did not
conduct any workshops due to staff turnover.
Recordings of some of the prior workshops are
available on the City's website:
https://www.hayward-
ca.gov/residents/housing/available-workshops. As
part of the City's Foreclosure Prevention Program,
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA)
markets and works with local non-profit partners
like A1 Community Housing to provide educational
workshops and legal services counseling for
foreclosure prevention. In 2024, HERA, some in
partnership with other non-profits, provided seven
workshops serving 74 attendees. In Q2 2024, HERA
sent targeted mailers about opportunities to attend
upcoming educational workshop to households in
lower income neighborhoods like North Hayward
and Downtown (Tracts 4354 and 4363), Upper B
Street (portion of Tract 4364.03), Mission Foothill
(Tracts 4365, portion of Tract 4353), Mt Eden (Tract
4372), Southgate (Tract 4370), Longwood/Winton
Grove (Tract 4369), Whitman Mocine (Tract 4378),
Harder/Tennyson (Tracts 4374, 4375, 4376, 7377.01
and 4377.02), Jackson Triangle (Tracts 4366.01 and
4366.02), Santa Clara (Tracts 4367 and 4368) and
Mission Garin (Tract 4380).
EJ-5.1: Educate public
about local asthma risk
24. Program EJ-5.1: Inform the public about heightened
local asthma risk by developing an asthma informational document identifying warning signs, prevention
strategies, and County Public Health Department
resources. Disseminate asthma informational documents
broadly to residents of the City.
[Source: New Program,
City Staff] EJ-5.1 Community Services
City Manager, Development
Services, Public Works &
Utilities, Alameda County
Public Health Department
2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
2 EJ-5.2: Advocate for in-
school asthma screening
program
25. Program EJ-5.2: Advocate for the Alameda County
Health Department and Hayward Unified School District
to facilitate an in-school asthma screening program.
[Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-5.1 City Manager
Library Manager and
Community Services,
Development Services,
Alameda County Health
Department, Hayward
Unified School District
2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-5.3: Increase access to
health services
26. Program EJ-5.3: Increase access to health services by coordinating with the Fire Department to expand the use of the Firehouse Clinic Model to additional firehouse
locations throughout the City, with priority given to
locations in the central and western portion of the City. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-5.2
City Manager, Hayward
Fire Department
Development Services,
Alameda County Health
Department, Non-Profit
Clinics
2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
EJ-5.4: Assess feasibility of
Clinic Shuttle Program
27. Program EJ-5.4: Support community health by
assessing the feasibility of a Clinic Shuttle Program to provide subsidized on-demand access to intra-City clinics and health centers, especially to those that offer
subsidized health care. Coordinate with AC Transit to
assess opportunities to partner in the development of the Clinic Shuttle program. [Source: New Program, City Staff] EJ-5.3 Community Services
City Manager, Public Works
& Utilities, Alameda County
Health Department,
Hayward Unified School
District, AC Transit
2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
EJ-5.5: Implement SR2S
Improvement Plans
28. Program EJ-5.5: By 2030, implement all
recommendations outlined within the SR2S (Safe Routes
to Schools) Improvement Plans outlined for each local
schools.
EJ-5.6 Public Works & Utilities
Hayward Unified School
District
2020-2040 Partially complete. This effort is underway.
EJ-6.1: Complete
Comprehensive Needs
Assessment
29. Program EJ-6.1: Complete Comprehensive Needs
Assessment and implement a Language Access Program.
[Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-6.1, EJ-6.2, EJ-6.3, EJ-6.5 City Clerk
City Manager, Community
Services
2020-2040 Partially complete. This effort is underway.
EJ-1.3: Advocate for HUSD
to install MERV-13 filters
3. Program EJ-1.3: Advocate for the Hayward Unified
School District to install MERV-13 air filtration systems in all local schools to reduce the impacts from air pollution, especially Particulate Matter pollution.
[Source: New
Program, City Staff] EJ-1.4 Public Works & Utilities City Manager 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-6.2: Host annual
workshops with
neighborhoods with high
CalEnviroScreen scores
30. Program EJ-6.2: Host annual workshops and small
meetings within identified neighborhoods in Hayward
with elevated CalEnviroScreen scores in order to identify community priorities, issues and if needed interventions to address specific issues identified by the community or by the screening scores/maps.
[Source: New Program, City
Staff] EJ-6.2, EJ-6.3, EJ-6.4, EJ-6.5
City Manager, Development
Services
Community Services 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
EJ-1.4: Add Spare the Air
widget to City webpage
4. Program EJ-1.4: Incorporate the BAAQMD Spare the
Air widget into the City’s webpage to highlight daily air quality information and highlight when air quality is
notably critical. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-1.5 City Manager Public Works & Utilities 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-1.5: Locate and monitor
local cleanup sites and
hazardous waste facilities
5. Program EJ-1.5: Prepare and publish an annual report identifying the location and status of local cleanup sites and hazardous waste facilities to keep residents informed about local polluting sources. Identify sites that are at risk of contaminant mobilization due to sea level or
groundwater rise. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-1.6 Public Works & Utilities City Manager Annual Not started The City of Hayward does not have the authority to
oversee the cleanup, closure, or interpretation of
contaminated sites. Local HazMat efforts are
managed with oversight from the County services
available and can be checked with:
https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/
or
https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-1.6: Offer health
resources to residents near
hazardous waste or
cleanup sites
6. Program EJ-1.6: Develop a community protection
program that offers health resources, monitoring, and
additional support to residents living within a half-mile radius of a hazardous waste facility or cleanup site.
[Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-1.7 Development Services Public Works & Utilities 2020-2040 Not started This program has not been initiated.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-1.7: Develop a Truck
Route Ordinance
7. Program EJ-1.7: Perform a review of designated truck routes in the City to identify routes abutting residential land uses that can be effectively rerouted. Develop a Truck Route Ordinance to designate Truck Prohibited Streets
and include fines and penalties to enforce restrictions. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-1.8, EJ-1.9, EJ-1.10 Public Works & Utilities Development Services 2020-2040 Complete Truck routes are defined and included in the City's
adopted Traffic Code, section 6.11, which meet the
intent of this program.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)EJ-1.8: Limit idling
8. Program EJ-1.8: Identify areas within the City where excessive truck idling is occurring and post “no idling” signage that is visibly accessible for motor vehicles
utilizing the roadways. [Source: New Program, City Staff] EJ-1.8, EJ-1.9, EJ-1.10 Public Works & Utilities Development Services 2020-2040 Complete Staff reviews and posts appropriate signage in
problem areas that are identified. These efforts meet
the intent of this program.
Champion Climate Resilience &
Environmental Justice (CP9)
EJ-1.9: Assess bikeways and
greenways accessibility
and connectivity
9. Program EJ-2.1: Prepare a City-wide connectivity
assessment in coordination with HARD, including bike
lanes, greenways, existing and planned trails and parks as part of the City's future Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan update. City will include parking assessments as part of future parking studies. Develop a summary report that identifies priority improvement areas for connectivity. [Source: New Program, City Staff]
EJ-2.1, EJ-2.2, EJ-2.3
Public Works & Utilities,
Development Services
Hayward Area Recreation
and Park District
2020-2040 Ongoing
Staff regularly engage with HARD regarding bike
lanes, greenway projects, existing/planned trails,
parks and open space. Staff is currently exploring
opportunities with HARD to connect the East Bay
Greenway (in progress) with the Shoreline and Bay
Trails. The City expects to receive $150,000 in
developer funding and is actively seeking
grant/funding opportunities with HARD.
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