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Last Monday night’s meeting of the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) was the first in-person meeting of the body since March 2020, when the pandemic sent public meetings online. This week’s meeting was a hybrid, with in-person attendance at the Castro Valley library and an option for teleconferencing. PHOTO COURTESY OF DARRELL LAVIN/ WWW.LAVINPHOTOS.COM “This is a historic meetingThe low elevation snow last Friday was the heaviest and most widespread since the first week in Februthe first in-person meeting in ary of 1976, nearly 50 years ago. Bay Area Meteorologist Mike Pechner says the current pattern of cold three years and the first hybrid air flowing south on the jet stream is likely to continue for another week or so. Weather forecasters premeeting,” said MAC Chair Bill dict winter weather patterns should continue at least thru mid-March. That means you have more time to Mulgrew. go up Mt. Diablo and play in the snow. The ski season in the High Sierra should go well into May. And at the “historic” meeting on February 27, the MAC heard an update from Liz McElligott, the county’s assistant planning director, regarding the 2023-2032 County Housing Element. State law requires each local jurisdiction to revise its HousBy Linda Sandsmark ing Element every eight years. CASTRO VALLEY FORUM The Housing Element is a document that includes current and The corner of Center Street and Castro projected housing needs and Valley Boulevard was busy last week as site inventories and addresses Castro Valley Sanitary District (CVSan) constraints on the development demolished and removed old buildings where of housing and more. its new headquarters will be located. McElligott explained that Excavators started work on March 1 on the the County is working with former California Department of Transportaconsultants to see what housing tion (Caltrans) maintenance facility structures will look like in Castro Valley that had been there since about 1984. CVSan over the next several years. acquired the property in 2013 for $1,500,000. And—as is true throughout “The new building is expected to be the Bay Area—higher-density completed in Spring 2024,” says Mike Neland more affordable housing son, Public Outreach Specialist for CVSan. is needed. An estimated 4,700 “We received four bids and awarded it to new housing units are needed the lowest bidder, DL Falk Construction, for in the 2023-2031 Housing $20,844,000.” Element, more than twice the According to public documents prepared 1,800 units in the previous by CVSan, the property totals about two PHOTO BY LINDA SANDSMARK 2015-2022 cycle. acres. The new CVSan operations facility Of those 4,700 units, 1,250 will include an approximately 19,795-square- Excavators demolished old Caltrans structures on the property should be made available for where Castro Valley Sanitary District will build its new headquarfoot, two-story building. It will house a see MAC on back page see SITE on page 3 ters at the corner of Castro Valley Boulevard and Center Street.
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