Description
A citywide package of zoning code text amendments, zoning map revisions, and fee updates to streamline permits for businesses — passed with data center rules tightened and the ACU home-business pilot deferred about a year.
Impact summary
Would make it faster and cheaper to open many types of businesses in Hayward and simplify the zoning map for 83 properties proposed for rezoning.
Applicant
- Name
- City of Hayward (Development Services)
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 1
- Total mentions
- 2
Last vote · City Council
Last discussed Apr 21, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
City Council — April 21, 2026
A citywide package of zoning code text amendments, zoning map revisions, and fee updates to streamline permits for businesses — passed with data center rules tightened and the ACU home-business pilot deferred about a year.
Planning Commission — January 22, 2026
Draft municipal code and zoning map revisions to streamline business permitting, consolidate commercial districts, and restrict data centers — coming back for adoption hearings this spring.
Related issues (4)
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