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City Council 2019 Goal-Setting: Santa Clara Finances Stable, Reserves Growing, And So Are Pension Costs
March 15, 2019
At last month’s Santa Clara City Council goal-setting sessions the City’s finances were a principal subject of discussion, as well...
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Santa Clara’s General Fund Budget Stabilization Reserves Since 2000: From Safe to Shaky to Safe — Right Now
March 14, 2019
By the time the new millennium was 10 years old, the City of Santa Clara’s general fund reserves had dropped...
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Planning Commission Approves Extension of 2232 El Camino Project
March 7, 2019
Only four commissioners were present at a Planning Commission meeting on Feb. 27 and as a result, decisions on several...
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Is Santa Clara Anticipating Lawsuit From Related Companies Over Stalled Agreement?
March 7, 2019
It appears so according to this agenda item on Tuesday’s Santa Clara City Council closed session meeting: “Conference with Legal...
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Parade of Champions Set to Make Comeback, Argument for Koreatown to be Made
March 6, 2019
Santa Clara’s Parade of Champions could return this year. The Santa Clara City Council heard a request Tuesday night from...
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January Council Calendars: Still Light, but Much to See
February 27, 2019
The first calendars of 2019 for the Santa Clara City Council are up. Here’s how our seven elected officials spent...
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Santa Clara’s 1960s Experiment in Mass Transit
February 25, 2019
Today, when we think about mass transit the goal is getting people out of their cars. But a half-century ago,...
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Affordable Housing Projects Forefront of Council Discussion, City Deliberates on Pot
February 22, 2019
Adding housing — specifically below-market-rate housing — to the City was the centerpiece of the Santa Clara City Council’s most...
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City Plans to Spend Millions More on Voting Rights Case in Appeal
February 21, 2019
Decisively losing a voting rights lawsuit, paying close to $1 million in legal bills and being hit with a punishing...
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Prop 13: The Gift That keeps on Giving For Apartment Complexes and Commercial Property
February 19, 2019
Despite the new attention-getting office campuses that continue to sprout in Silicon Valley, homeowners still carry the largest share of...








