{"id":64397,"date":"2026-03-18T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-tax-would-raise-funds-to-protect-open-space\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:30:06","slug":"silicon-valley-tax-would-raise-funds-to-protect-open-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-tax-would-raise-funds-to-protect-open-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley tax would raise funds to protect open space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County residents will vote on yet another tax measure this year \u2014 but instead of hospitals, they\u2019ll be asked to help expand public access and protect wildlife along Silicon Valley\u2019s sweeping foothills, woodlands and grasslands. Voters in June will be asked to accept a tax of two cents per square foot of building area on property owners within the legal boundaries of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, which includes San Jose, Milpitas, Campbell, Santa Clara and Morgan Hill. Officials say Measure D would raise $17 million annually to help the agency restore and maintain open space,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-tax-would-raise-funds-to-protect-open-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County residents will vote on yet another tax measure this year \u2014 but instead of hospitals, they\u2019ll be asked to help expand public access and protect wildlife along Silicon Valley\u2019s sweeping foothills, woodlands and grasslands. Voters in June will be asked to accept a tax of two cents per square foot of building &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}