City Politics

Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City

Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional…

RDA Shut-Down Oversight Board Decides… to Make No Decision – Again

The Feb. 27 Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Successor Agency Oversight Board meeting could be…

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Senior Housing Still Slated for BAREC&#x27s Remaining 6 Acres, But City Open to New Designs

The six remaining acres of open land at 90 N. Winchester – known familiarly as…

Soccer Field Design at Montague Park Gets Council Go-Ahead, Neighborhood Critics Claim Park Will Be Destroyed

At the Feb. 10 City Council meeting, the Council approved a $765,500 design contract with…

County Bureaucrats May Outsmart Themselves on RDA Property Grab

Santa Clara County taxing entities who've spent four years coveting real estate owned by Santa…

City Desk: Feb. 18, 2015

Mini-Dorms: New Law or Better Enforcement Needed? At its Feb. 3 study session, the City…

Current RDA Mess Has Many Fathers – Starting With Voters

If Californian voters dislike the public agency feeding frenzy unleashed by the redevelopment agency (RDA)…

Judge Rules Santa Clara Must Hand Over Former RDA Property to “Successor Agency”

If the Santa Clara RDA's name was on the deed, the property belonged the defunct…

City Desk: Feb. 4, 2015

Less is More: Doing the Math on Residential Development Fee Credits By Carolyn Schuk On…

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Lawrence Station, Tasman East Redevelopment: Change the General Plan or Change the Conversation

Re-developing the Lawrence Station (70 acres) and Tasman East areas (45 acres) as higher-density* residential…