Sports and infrastructure will be Santa Clara’s focus over the next year. At the Santa Clara City Council’s priority setting session last month, the council emphasized the need to ensure big-ticket events at Levi’s Stadium go off without a hitch and that the city spends voter-approved bond money responsibly. Super Bowl LX and FIFA World … Read more
Santa Clara’s George Haines International Swim Center (ISC) will finally get the facelift many have been waiting for since its closure early last year. At the Santa Clara City Council’s meeting Tuesday night, the council approved allocating $10 million for more comprehensive improvements to the ISC. In June last year, the council approved $1.86 million … Read more
Santa Clara will get another massive housing development. At its most recent meeting, March 25, the Santa Clara City Council unanimously approved adding nearly 1,800 apartments to its housing stock. The Irvine Company development, located at 2518 Mission College Blvd., will feature a large swath of below-market-rate apartments. In addition to 75 apartments listed as … Read more
A close call at the Santa Clara City Council meeting almost saw the city losing federal funding for bike improvements along three major corridors. At its Tuesday night meeting, the Santa Clara City Council almost failed to approve a bicycle improvement plan along De La Cruz, Lick Mill and Scott Boulevards. Micheal Liw, assistant director … Read more
Despite neighbors’ outcry, the Santa Clara City Council approved installation of three cell phone towers. After postponing the decision three times, the planning commission approved the towers, set to be installed at 3111 Benton St., last year. However, a man representing a group of more than 100 neighbors to the 40-foot poles appealed the matter … Read more
Campaign spending in the 2024 Santa Clara city election came close to $3.1 million, with PACs spending $2.9 million, dwarfing the $205,000 spent by individual candidates. 49ers Maintain Historical Spending, Related and Police Union Pull Back The 49ers’ $2.4 million in spending was similar to what they spent in the 2022 election. Related spent $115,000 … Read more
Santa Clara’s mayor is dissatisfied with the specifications in the FIFA World Cup documents. At the most recent meeting of the Santa Clara City Council Feb. 11, Mayor Lisa Gillmor told city employees she disliked how open-ended some of the contract parameters the city negotiated with the Bay Area Host Committee (BAHC) are. The documents, released … Read more
A new year feels like a new beginning, a chance to start with a clean slate. In our everyday lives, we — most of us, anyway — make resolutions to do better in the coming year, exercise more, spend less or start a new endeavor. 2025 also brings to Santa Clara a new city council. … Read more
The Santa Clara City Council has approved a contract with a mental health provider. The three-year $390,000 contract works out to $1 per resident annually. “This effort is to provide connections to mental health care, and it is a priority of the city’s as we all know mental health significantly impacts not only the individual … Read more
A legal ruling has caused Santa Clara to claw back rules requiring that all new construction be entirely electric. A 9th Circuit Court ruling against the city of Berkley found that such environmental regulations are illegal. Since Santa Clara’s regulations, known as its reach code, were modeled after Berkley’s, City Attorney Glen Googins said it … Read more