City Politics
City Politics
49ers Offer SCUSD Field Improvements, $15 Million to City in Return for Parking Rights at Youth Soccer Park
April 15, 2015
A three–way deal among the City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara Unified School District, and the San Francisco 49ers may...
City Politics
City Will Fund Convention Center Through June
April 15, 2015
At a special closed session last week, the Santa Clara City Council voted to provide gap funding for the Convention...
City Politics
City Desk: April 1, 2015
April 8, 2015
Levi’s Stadium Financials Beat Expectations with Under-Budget Construction and Over-Budget Surplus Not only did Santa Clara’s Stadium Authority end the...
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City Desk: March 25, 2015
April 1, 2015
Irvine Mission Town Center Proposal Adds Momentum for Downtown Revival As they say, if you build it they will come....
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Kolstad Raffle Tickets: No Evidence for More Than Mistake
April 1, 2015
Sometimes a mistake is just that. And that’s what Council Member Pat Kolstad’s Mission City Community Fund (MCCF) raffle ticket...
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City Desk: March18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Most Vulnerable Citizens Paying for RDA Dissolution When the State Legislature shut down California’s redevelopment program, they also shut down...
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County Sentences Santa Clara Convention Center to Death by Bureaucracy
March 18, 2015
Last week Santa Clarans learned what’s important to the Oversight Board of the Santa Clara Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency (SA):...
City Politics
Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City
March 11, 2015
Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)...
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RDA Shut-Down Oversight Board Decides… to Make No Decision – Again
March 11, 2015
The Feb. 27 Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Successor Agency Oversight Board meeting could be described as the same as...
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Senior Housing Still Slated for BAREC's Remaining 6 Acres, But City Open to New Designs
March 11, 2015
The six remaining acres of open land at 90 N. Winchester – known familiarly as BAREC – are still the...