City Politics
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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....
City Politics
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...
City Politics
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...
City Politics
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)...
City Politics
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...
City Politics
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...
City Politics
Soccer Field Design at Montague Park Gets Council Go-Ahead, Neighborhood Critics Claim Park Will Be Destroyed
March 4, 2015
At the Feb. 10 City Council meeting, the Council approved a $765,500 design contract with LPA Inc. for a new...
City Politics
County Bureaucrats May Outsmart Themselves on RDA Property Grab
March 4, 2015
Santa Clara County taxing entities who’ve spent four years coveting real estate owned by Santa Clara’s defunct redevelopment agency (RDA)...
City Politics
City Desk: Feb. 18, 2015
February 25, 2015
Mini-Dorms: New Law or Better Enforcement Needed? At its Feb. 3 study session, the City Council sent back the third...