The Career Pathways & Entrepreneurship working group explored what career opportunities in food, farming, and agritourism are currently available in Hayward and identified what it would take to build a strong foundation of educational resources and economic opportunity for the next generation of food economy careers and entrepreneurs.

Highlights & Opportunities

Forging meaningful opportunities for Hayward youth

A carbon neutral future includes leveraging the greenspace within the City to reduce GHG emissions. For example, greenspace – like trees and planted landscapes – can be expanded and maintained to remove carbon from the atmosphere through natural biological processes called carbon sequestration, helping to reduce GHG emissions in the City.

Tracking, Monitoring, and Reporting

The CAP serves as roadmap for Hayward to implement actions to achieve the 2030 GHG emission reduction target and make progress towards reaching carbon neutrality by 2045. The underlying assumptions and data informing this plan including adoption rates of measures and actions, the emergence of new or improved technologies, changes in costs of technology, legislative changes, and co-benefits will continue to change and evolve over time. As a result, the CAP shall serve as a strategic framework that will undergo regular re-evaluation.

CAP measures for the building energy sector focus on transiting to renewable energy sources, carbon-free electricity, and building electrification. When all-electric buildings are powered by carbon-free electricity, their operating energy footprint becomes carbon-free.

The 2020 BPMP replaces and builds on the City’s original 2007 Bicycle Master Plan with its inclusion of pedestrian-centered facilities and extensive public input. The new plan recommends a total of 153 miles of new bicycle facilities, including 32 miles of multi-use paths for both pedestrians and cyclists.

Permit services are especially useful to the commercial trucking industry to expedite processing and to coordinate multiple permit applications. Permit services are always optional and never mandatory. The City of Hayward gives no preferential treatment to permit service companies or their applications. 

In response to AB 2533 Government Code Section 66332, the City of Hayward is offering an ADU Amnesty Program to help property owners bring unpermitted ADUs and JADUs, built before January 1, 2020, up to the standards of Health and Safety Code 17920.3. This program aims to ensure these spaces are safe, healthy, and habitable.

“Post-entitlement phase permit” includes all nondiscretionary permits and reviews required by the City after the entitlement process has been completed to begin construction of a development that is intended to be at least two-thirds of the square footage designated for residential use. AB 2234 permits exclude discretionary and ministerial planning permits, entitlements, and other permits and reviews that are covered under Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 65920).

In accordance with the Water Shutoff Protection Act (SB 998), you may view the number of annual residential service discontinuations for inability pay below: