An open letter to the Chair of the Castro Valley MAC originally published as a letter to the editor of the Castro Valley Forum: There have been times when I have supported you, and times when I’ve disagreed with you. During the March 17 Castro Valley MAC meeting, I was …
Castro Valley Walkability Score: 23 If you look up the Castro Valley walkability score on www.walkscore.com by putting in the zip code 94546, we get a walkability score of 23…out of 100. That score is not so good; it means that you have to get in your car to run …
A community is more than just a place where you live. A community is made up of the people around you. A community can become that thing you rely on when tragedy strikes. We are all painfully aware of the tragic murder of YunYi Zhang, on March 14 in her …
The Analysis of Costs, Uses and Local Support for a Castro Valley Town Square has been published. Read the full report today. The asbestos-laden, water-contaminated, white monolith Daughtrey’s building that hulks over our downtown could be transformed into a gathering place and provide our community with a physical representation of …
Prepared by Peter Rosen, Michael Kusiak, Scott San Filippo and Castro Valley Matters March 11, 2014 Castro Valley Town Square Overview At the February 4, 2014 Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) meeting, the MAC passed a motion requesting that the Castro Valley Town Square proponents gather more data about …
Summary of the CVUSD school board meeting from February 27,2014. Here is a link to the board packet and agenda. The items that were of interest to me were the discussion on LCFF/LCAP and the public comments from members of the Castro Valley classified union, CSEA. Superintendent Jim Negri gave …
On Saturday, March 1 the CVEF Scholarship Committee asked me to speak for a few minutes about the new CVLegends scholarship. Below I have attempted to organize my notes into a coherent transcript of that speech: Thank you for being here, my name is David Ashton, I run a small …
The Alameda County Redevelopment Successor Agency Oversight Board voted on Wednesday to revise the Long Range Property Management Plan (LRPMP) so that a public use (e.g. a town square) will be considered for the Daughtrey’s site as the complicated process of wrapping up the affairs of over 400 redevelopment agencies in …
Lois Fisher of Fisher Town Design is a successful and influential urban designer who creates town squares for a living (Northern California projects she has worked on include Central Petaluma, Windsor, Ukiah, and Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park). We sat down with her recently to get her expert opinion …
Creating a central focal point for a town or city is not an original idea. It works well for so many other cities & towns across the country. Let’s take a look at what a Castro Valley Town Square might look like by examining what a town square looks like …