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05/16/2024
Plans for a 300 unit residential development on West Julian Street have been filed.

05/14/2024
The Santa Clara Valley Water District is proposing a new ordinance banning encampments along local waterways to address increasing negative impacts.

05/14/2024
Preliminary proposals for a rail and transit hub in downtown San Jose adjacent to Diridon Station have been released, with costs of billions of dollars projected.

05/07/2024
Plans include more tiny home shelters, sanctioned camps, bus tickets out of town.

05/02/2024
Hundreds of volunteers have signed up to participate in painting a mural on San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose.

04/30/2024
The 130-unit Solaire Apartments affordable housing complex at 425 Auzerais Avenue in downtown San Jose has opened for occupancy.

04/24/2024
A new license plate reader has been installed in East San Jose at the intersection of King Road and Wilshire Boulevard.

04/23/2024
A 28-story mixed use high-rise has been proposed for downtown San Jose on East Santa Clara Street.

04/12/2024
The San Jose City Council passed laws to ban homeless encampments near schools and placed restrictions on RV and lived-in vehicle parking.

04/04/2024
Planning is underway to expand the homeless tiny home facility at 5898 Rue Ferrari in South San Jose with an additional 124 beds, a laundry area and community center.

03/21/2024
A permit application has been filed to convert the historic Bank of Italy office tower in San Jose to 100+ units of housing.

03/21/2024
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is adding his support for a local ordinance drafted to assist low-income tenants in San Jose remain in their neighborhoods.

02/22/2024
Contrary to prior predictions, San Jose will not see a budget shortfall this upcoming fiscal year. The city is in better financial shape than expected for the 2024-25 budget.

02/16/2024
King Road, a six-mile street bounded by Berryessa Road to the north and East Capitol Expressway to the south, is slated for improvements. From 2018 to 2023, eight people, including an infant, were killed on the road.

02/09/2024
Incumbent Councilmember Domingo Candelas, Surinder “Suri” Kaur Dhaliwal, Sukhdev Bainiwal and Tam Truong spoke to about 50 residents at a forum hosted by the community’s democratic club.

02/07/2024
The San Jose City Council unanimously approved allocating $200,000 to remove roughly 20 people living by the Guadalupe River Trail and work with community partners to encourage residents to frequent the trail.

02/05/2024
Two San Jose cannabis dispensaries, MedMen and Herbs, have temporarily closed—and the city stands to lose millions in revenue if they go out of business.

02/03/2024
For three years West San Jose residents have been fighting the city over construction of a Costco in their neighborhood, especially when there are four others just minutes away.

01/19/2024
Under San Jose’s Focus Area Service Team program (FAST), a six-month pilot program that aims to address blight in six neighborhoods that have historically received the most complaints for exterior code violations, residents can receive fines ranging from $250 to $1,000 for common issues such as junk and furniture in front yards visible from the street, graffiti, inoperable vehicles and overgrown vegetation.

01/19/2024
Months after work crews removed tattered tarps and worn wraps from a languishing, historic former church in downtown San Jose, preservationists are worried city officials have lost urgency around protecting the building for the long term.