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Year In Review | January 2025

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New City Manager and Police Chief appointed in 2024

Photos of City Manager Ana Alvarez and Chief Bryan Matthews.

A year of transition and progress for the City of Hayward, 2024 opened with the appointment of a new Chief of Police and closed with the naming of a new City Manager. 

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More than 150 affordable housing units started coming online in 2024 

GIF of renderings of a variety of affordable housing units coming to the City.

Builders and property managers began accepting purchase and lease applications on more than 150 new below-market-rate (BMR) homes at five new Hayward housing developments in 2024. 

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Hayward adopted switch to district elections for Council starting in 2026

Image of the final map of the Hayward districts that were created for district elections.

Responding to concerns raised under the California Voting Rights Act, the Hayward City Council in 2024 approved a switch to a district-based system of electing members of the City Council.

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New retail transformed former K-Mart site in 2024 

Sprouts Grand Opening in Hayward 9/27/24

Hayward turned out on a Friday morning in September to celebrate the opening of Sprouts Farmers Market at Mission Boulevard and West Harder Road, completing a decades-long effort to bring a specialty grocery store to Hayward.

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Hayward voters gave big thumbs up to sales tax extension 

Photo of maintenance staff around a variety of maintenance and police vehicles.

A 20-year extension of the City of Hayward half-cent sales tax passed easily in the Nov. 5 municipal election with 83 percent of the vote.

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