Introduction

Welcome to the website for the Eden Area General Plan.  This site will provide important information relating to the project and serve as a forum for public input. 

The General Plan

The General Plan is the basic planning document for cities and counties.  Every city and county in California must adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of any land that the jurisdiction judges to be relevant to its long range planning.  All land use approvals in the city or county must be consistent with the General Plan.

There has been no comprehensive update of the General Plan since 1983.  In 1995, the General Plan was amended when the Happyland neighborhood of the Eden area was annexed to Hayward.

The General Plan Update has been prepared in several phases over the past 4 years and a draft of the General Plan is now available.

Public Participation

Members of the public are invited to all Eden Area General Plan workshops.  These meetings will be held specifically to solicit community input.  The schedules for these meetings can be found by clicking here.

For questions or comments regarding the General Plan or Draft EIR, contact:

Cindy Horvath, Senior Transportation Planner, Alameda County

(510) 670-5400

cindy.horvath@acgov.org

or

Sophie Mintier, Planner, DC&E

(510) 848-3815

sophie@dceplanning.com

**News**

Eden Area General Plan- Back up and Running!!

Thank you for your continued interest in the Eden Area General Plan.  After a year-long hiatus to address general plan boundary issues, the project is moving forward! Last summer, a series of public hearings were held to address the issue of the boundary line between the two Plan areas.  As a result of these hearings, the following areas have been removed from the Eden Area General Plan and are now in the Castro Valley General Plan:

• Fairmont Campus

• Hillcrest Knolls

• El Portal Ridge

A new map has been developed to show the new General Plan boundaries for the Eden Area. Please Click Here to download a PDF of the map.

In addition, portions of the Mt. Eden area have been annexed into the City of Hayward since the General Plan update has started.  The above new Eden Area map shows those areas that remain in the Mt. Eden sub-area.

July Community Meeting!

Please join us for the next meeting to discuss the Eden Area General Plan and EIR project. 

Tuesday July 22, 7:00-8:30PM

San Lorenzo Village Homes Association, 377 Paseo Grande, San Lorenzo.

New Areas for Inclusion and Analysis in the General Plan and EIR.

Recent legislation and other government actions has resulted in two new areas to be included in the General Plan and EIR: A Greenhouse Gas Action Plan will be developed, and new FEMA floodplain maps for the County will be added and analyzed for potential impacts in the EIR.

Schedule

A revised project schedule can be found on that section of this website (see sidebar to the left).