CITY STAFF CALLS FOR URGENT MORATORIUM, BACKS OFF BECAUSE OF ‘UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES’By Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.com@eastbaycitizen on twitter Hayward’s City Council backed off from a growing controversy over an attempt to push through an urgent moratorium on grocery store over 20,000 sq…. Read More ›
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Hayward Approves Resolution Against Assembly Bill On Ideological Grounds
CITY ADMITS IT HAS NO PLAN TO OUTSOURCE LIBRARY OPERATIONS, WANTS SACTO TO LEAVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ALONEBy Steven Tavares There was hardly any debate Tuesday night as the Hayward City Council unanimously approved giving Mayor Michael Sweeney the go-ahead to compose… Read More ›
Sustainable City Strategy Finds Many Detractors In Hayward
COUNCIL FINDS FORECAST OF 28% JOB GROWTH BY 2035 UNREALISTIC; OVER PAST 30 YEARS INCREASED JUST 2.8%By Steven Tavares The Metropolitan Transportation Commission thinks job growth in Hayward over the next quarter century will greatly outstrip the city’s ability to… Read More ›
‘Minor’ Modifications Made To South Hayward BART Project
HOUSING UNITS WOULD DROP FROM 788 TO 346; NO RETAILBy Steven Tavares Plans to revitalize the area surrounding the South Hayward BART stationcould be greatly downsized as the developer team, including 49ers great Joe Montana, cited the potential loss of… Read More ›
Fremont, Hayward Move To Shore Up Housing Dollars
HAYWARD APPROVES AGREEMENT FOR $40 MILLION; FREMONT LOOKS AT ITS OPTIONSBy Steven Tavares When it comes to wading through the massive uncertainty surrounding Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to put the kibosh on the state’s redevelopment agencies, Fremont continues to be… Read More ›
Hayward Renews City Manager’s Contract
DAVID TO PAY MORE FOR CITY PENSION IN ONE-YEAR EXTENSION; WHAT IT MEANS FOR SAN LEANDROBy Steven Tavares Fran David replacedGreg Jones in May 2010. Hayward will extend the contract of current City Manager Fran David until 2012, pending approval… Read More ›
San Leandro Readies Its Own Attack On Polystyrene
Hayward banned polystyrene foodware last week from its local restaurants. PROLA ASKS CITY TO LOOK AT BAN ON STYROFOAM FOODWARE By Steven Tavares San Leandro could be the next Bay Area city to ban polystyrene foodware from its restaurants. Councilman Jim Prola… Read More ›
LiveTweeting from Hayward City Council
Follow the East Bay Citizen on Twitter! Here’s a few tweets from Tuesday’s Hayward City Council meeting in 140 characters or less. Visit twitter.com/eastbaycitizen for up-to-the-minute news and observations from scheduled political events and public meetings, along with retweets from across… Read More ›
Sweeney Calls for Hayward to Raise Its Expectations
NEWEST MEMBERS PEIXOTO, SALINAS JOIN HAYWARD CITY COUNCILBy Steven Tavares Change comes to Hayward City Council Tuesday night with the waning moments of outgoing members Anna May and Kevin Dowling on the dais seated fifth and sixth from the left…. Read More ›
Peixoto, Salinas Win Seats on Hayward Council
HAYWARD COUNCIL One-time contender Lamnin unable to make move to secondChange is coming to the Hayward City Council next year. With 80 percent of precincts reporting, Marvin Peixoto and Mark Salinas are on their way to the replacing outgoing members… Read More ›
Santos Loses Support of Former Police Chiefs
Does He Need It, Though? | Santos/Starosciak: Not BFFs | Making It Easier To Run | May Rules The Day | Independent-In-Name-Only To the dismay of San Leandro Mayor Tony Santos, two former police chiefs hosted a fundraiser Tuesday for… Read More ›