Top 10 Reasons For a Town Square
1. Beauty. A well-designed Town Square will give residents and visitors a reason to enjoy Castro Valley’s downtown and new streetscape. 2. Walkability. Successful downtowns are walkable. Improved walkability helps local businesses attract more customers and achieve greater success. 3. Ideal Location. The site is ideally located for a Town Square, …
CVUSD School Board Studies Local Control Accountability Plan
The Castro Valley Unified School District held a special “study session/workshop” board meeting to go over the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). No action was to be taken. Here is a link to the board packet. Background: There is a new ‘simplified’ formula for funding public education in California. …
Town Square Discussion at MAC Meeting Raises More Questions
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” – Thomas Pynchon Tuesday night’s Castro Valley MAC Meeting left us with more questions than answers. I will try to list many of these questions here, going from more general questions on governance to …
It’s not too late
My contact at the California Department of Finance confirmed that as of this morning the currently submitted Long Range Property Management Plan (LRPMP) for Alameda County has not been approved and that it will be sent back to the Redevelopment Successor Agency for revision and approval by the Oversight Board. So, …
L-R-P-M-P, find out what it’s going to mean for me
The Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) will hear the proposal to tear down the Daughtrey’s building and replace it with a town square at Tuesday night’s 6:00 PM meeting at Castro Valley Library. Peter Rosen, a member of the Castro Valley Matters team and Castro Valley community activist, developed …
Castro Valley Patch: Under New Management. Again.
Castro Valley Patch is under new management. Again. Hale Global, Patch’s new parent company, laid off upwards to two-thirds of Patch editors on Wednesday, including Castro Valley Patch’s most recent editor Amanda Aguilar. According to a discussion thread on the El Cerrito Patch, which also lost its editor, Autumn Johnson will now …
History of the Daughtrey’s Building
Thank you to the Hayward Area Historical Society for providing this content. Despite the name of the organization, the Society also covers the history of Castro Valley. You should check ’em out today! In several issues of the Castro Valley Forum it states that Daughtrey’s has been in Castro Valley …
Late to the party
Castro Valley still has a chance to have a say in the fate of the Daughtrey’s building despite coming to the redevelopment dissolution party really, really late. The first thing you can do to help in tearing down Daughtrey’s and building a town square is to learn a little about a complex phenomenon …
Castro Valley Matters
Castro Valley is a friendly town, a close-knit community of about 63,000 people that can still get excited about a homecoming game. But getting around Castro Valley can be complicated, and it’s not just because Strobridge suddenly stops south of 580. We are governed by a hodgepodge of distinct and …
It’s time to tear down Daughtrey’s
With about 30,000 feet of deteriorating real estate in the center of downtown, the Daughtrey’s building is a focal point of blight and home to Castro Valley’s seasonal Halloween accessories headquarters. It’s time to tear down Daughtrey’s. Here’s a quick summary of the building’s recent history (stay with me …