If you’ve been to a Santa Clara supermarket recently you may have seen the anti-stadium group Santa Clara Plays Fair (www.santaclaraplaysfair.org) asking for petition signatures. The group aims to force the City Council to either repeal recent actions approving the proposed 49ers stadium project and its financing, or submit...
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In upholding the RDA dissolution law, the justices took a dim view of the California Redevelopment Association’s argument that 2010’s Proposition 22...
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California’s Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state legislature’s dissolution (AB1X 26) of California’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs). “The legislative power vested in the...
In addition to its other responsibilities, Santa Clara’s City Council Members represent the interests of the city on a variety of county,...
The City of Santa Clara appears to have figured out how to build a $1.02 billion public facility and get someone else...
Santa Clara City Council members’ service isn’t limited to their participation in City Council meetings. They also serve on the city’s committees...
During elections we love to toss around hot air-filled slogans like “affordable housing,” “green building,” and “transit-oriented development.” But few of us...
More than a few of us have said – or thought – that surely we could do better than California’s state legislature...
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49ers Stadium Development Agreement, Preliminary Financing Review at Dec. 6 Council Meeting
Come New Year’s Day 2012, the 49ers stadium project will start moving ahead at a notably faster pace. So, despite the many...
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While California’s Brown Act establishes that public business must be conducted, well, in public, government agencies can hold private meetings to discuss...