[ Like all cities and counties in the state, San Jose has representation in the ]state legislature
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Like all California cities except San Francisco, both the levels and the boundaries of what the city government controls are determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission Local Agency Formation Commissions or LAFCOs are regional service planning agencies of the State of California. LAFCOs are located in all 58 counties and exercise regulatory and planning powers in step with their prescribed directive to oversee the ...
(LAFCO). The goal of a LAFCO is to try to avoid uncontrolled urban sprawl
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. The Santa Clara County LAFCO has set boundaries of San Jose's "Sphere of Influence" (indicated by the blue line in the map near the top of the page) as a superset of the actual city limits (the yellow area in the map), plus parts of the surrounding unincorporated county land, where San Jose can, for example, prevent development of fringe areas to concentrate city growth closer to the city's core. The LAFCO also defines a subset of the Sphere as an 'Urban Service Area' (indicated by the red line in the map), effectively limiting development to areas where urban infrastructure (sewers, electrical service, etc.) already exists.
San Jose is the county seat
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of Santa Clara County
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. Accordingly, many county government facilities are located in the city, including the office of the County Executive, the Board of Supervisors, the District Attorney's Office, eight courthouses of the Superior Court, the Sheriff's Office, and the County Clerk.
State and federal
In the California State Senate
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, San Jose is split between the 10th
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, 15th, and 17th districts, represented by , , and respectively.
In the California State Assembly
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, San Jose is split between the 25th, 27th, 28th
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, and 29th
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* 29 is the tenth prime number, and the fourth primorial prime.
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districts, represented by , , , and , respectively.
Federally, San Jose is split between California's 17th, 18th
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, and 19th
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congressional districts, represented by , , and , respectively.
Several state and federal agencies maintain offices in San Jose. The city is the location of the Sixth District of the California Courts of Appeal
The California Courts of Appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California. The state is geographically divided along county lines into six appellate districts. . It is also home to one of three courthouses of the , the other two being in Oakland and San Francisco.
Crime
The San Jose Police Department has consistently innovated in crime prevention, through programs like "CrimeReports.com", which made San Jose the first American city to make all 911 calls available online. Like most large cities, crime levels had fallen significantly after rising in the 1980s. From 2002 to 2006, Morgan Quitno Press
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named San Jose the safest city in the United States with a population over 500,000 people. Crime in San Jose had been lower than in other large American cities until 2013, when crime rates in San Jose climbed above California and U.S. averages.
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ranked San Jose tied as the 10th safest city in the United States. In 2020, violent crime per 100,000 people has been the lowest the city has seen in 2017 while the homicide rate has been the highest since 2016; property crime per 100,000 people has been the lowest the city has seen in over ten years.
2021 mass shooting
On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting
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occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
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(VTA) rail yard
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in San Jose. Ten people were killed, including the gunman, 57-year-old VTA employee Samuel James Cassidy, who shot and killed himself. The shooting led to a day-long suspension of light rail services in the area. It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area
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.
In June 2021, roughly a month following the shooting, San Jose became the first city in the United States to require gun owners to carry liability insurance after a unanimous vote by the city council.
Education
Higher education
San Jose is home to several colleges and universities
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. The largest is San Jose State University
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, which was founded by the California legislature in 1862 as the California State Normal School, and is the founding campus of the California State University
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(CSU) system. Located in downtown San Jose since 1870, the university enrolls approximately 30,000 students in over 130 different bachelor's and master's degree programs. The school enjoys a good academic reputation, especially in the fields of engineering, business, computer science, art and design, and journalism, and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the western region of the United States. San Jose State is one of only three Bay Area schools that fields a Football Bowl Subdivision
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(FBS) Division I college football team; Stanford University
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and U.C. Berkeley are the other two.
California University of Management and Technology
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(CALMAT) offers many degree programs, including MBA, Computer Science, Information Technology. Most classes are offered both online and in the downtown campus. Many of the students are working professionals in the Silicon Valley.
The University of Silicon Valley
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is located in the Golden Triangle
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of North San Jose
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.
Lincoln Law School of San Jose
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and University of Silicon Valley Law School
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offer law degrees, catering to working professionals.
National University
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maintains a campus in San Jose.
The San Jose campus of Golden Gate University
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offers business bachelor and MBA
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degrees.
In the San Jose metropolitan area, Stanford University
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is in Stanford, California
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, Santa Clara University
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is in Santa Clara, California
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, and U.C. Santa Cruz
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is in Santa Cruz, California
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. Within the San Francisco Bay Area
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, other universities include U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Francisco
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, U.C. Hastings College of Law, University of San Francisco
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, and California State University, East Bay
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.
The San Jose area's community college
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s, San Jose City College
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, West Valley College, Mission College (Santa Clara, California), Mission College and Evergreen Valley College, offer associate degrees, general education units to transfer to CSU and UC schools, and adult and continuing education programs. The West campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic is also located in San Jose.
WestMed College is headquartered in San Jose and offers paramedic training, emergency medical technician training, and licensed vocational nursing programs.
The University of California operates Lick Observatory
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atop Mount Hamilton.
Western Seminary has one of its four campuses in San Jose, which opened on the campus of Calvary Church of Los Gatos in 1985. The campus relocated in 2010 to Santa Clara. Western is an evangelical, Christian graduate school that provides theological training for students who hope to serve in a variety of ministry roles including pastors, marriage and family therapists, educators, missionaries and lay leadership. The San Jose campus offers four master's degrees, and a variety of other graduate-level programs.
National Hispanic University offered associate and bachelor's degrees and teaching credentials to its students, focusing on Hispanic students, until its closing in 2015.
Primary and secondary education
Up until the opening of Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose, California), Lincoln High School in 1943, San Jose students only attended San Jose High Academy, San Jose High School. San Jose has 127 elementary, 47 middle, and 44 public high schools. Public education in the city is provided by four high school districts, fourteen elementary education, elementary districts, and four unified school districts (which provide both elementary and high schools). In addition to the main San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD) and other Districts within San Jose such as the Alum Rock Unified School District and the East Side Union High School District, other nearby unified school districts of nearby cities are Milpitas Unified School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Santa Clara Unified School District.
The public schools in San Jose declared bankruptcy in 1983; this was the largest school district bankruptcy to that date in the US. Observers identified the reasons as a drop of 5,000 students in the preceding years, the difficulties imposed on school finances by ''Serrano v. Priest'' in 1968, the reduction of tax monies because of 1978 California Proposition 13, and the local teacher's union contract requiring a raise in pay.
Private schools in San Jose are primarily run by religious groups. The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, Catholic Diocese of San Jose has the second largest student population in the Santa Clara County, behind only SJUSD; the diocese and its parishes operate several schools in the city, including five high schools: Archbishop Mitty High School, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, California, Notre Dame High School, Saint Francis High School (Mountain View), Saint Francis High School, and Presentation High School. Other private high schools include two Baptist high schools, Liberty Baptist School and Private schools in San Jose, California, White Road Baptist Academy, one Non-denominational Christianity, Non-Denominational Protestant high school, Valley Christian High School (San Jose, California), one University-preparatory school, Cambrian Academy, a nonsectarian K-12 The Harker School, Harker School with four campuses in western San Jose, and a K-12 school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Apostles Lutheran School.
Libraries
The San José Public Library system is unique in that the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library combines the collections of the city's system with the San Jose State University main library. In 2003, construction of the library, which now holds more than 1.6 million items, was the largest single library construction project west of the Mississippi, with eight floors that result in more than of space with a capacity for 2 million volumes.
The city has 23 neighborhood branches including the ''Biblioteca Latinoamericana'' which specializes in Spanish language works. The East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library, a Carnegie library opened in 1908, is the last Carnegie library in Santa Clara County still operating as a public library and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
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. As the result of a bond measure passed in November 2000, a number of brand new or completely reconstructed branches have been completed and opened. The yet-to-be-named brand new Southeast Branch is also planned, bringing the bond library project to its completion.
The San Jose system (along with the university system) were jointly named as "Library of the Year" by the Library Journal in 2004.
Community services and utilities
San Jose is protected by the San Jose Police Department and San Jose Fire Department. Drinking water is supplied by the San José Municipal Water System (Muni Water) along with the privately owned San Jose Water Company and Great Oaks Water Company. The San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility provides Tertiary treatment, advanced wastewater treatment and reclaimed water.
Transportation
Like other American cities built mostly after World War II, San Jose is highly automobile-dependent, with 76 percent of residents driving alone to work and 12 percent carpooling in 2017. The city set an ambitious goal to shift motorized trips to walking, bicycling, and public transit in 2009 with the adoption of its Envision San Jose 2040 General Plan. In 2018, the city extended these goals to 2050 with its San Jose Climate Smart plan.
Public transit
Rail service to and from San Jose is provided by Amtrak (the Sacramento–San-Jose Capitol Corridor and the Seattle–Los-Angeles Coast Starlight), Caltrain (commuter rail service between San Francisco and Gilroy, California, Gilroy), Altamont Corridor Express, ACE (commuter rail service to Pleasanton, California, Pleasanton and Stockton, California, Stockton), and the local Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail, VTA light rail system connecting downtown to Mountain View, California, Mountain View, Milpitas, California, Milpitas, Campbell, and Almaden Valley
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(VTA). Historic streetcars from History Park at Kelley Park, History Park operate on the light rail lines in downtown during holidays.
Long-term plans call for BART to be expanded to Santa Clara from the Berryessa/North San José station. Originally, the extension was to be built all at once, but due to the recession, sales tax revenue has dramatically decreased. Because of this, the extension will be built in two phases. Phase 1 extended service to San Jose with the completion of the Milpitas and Berryessa BART stations on June 13, 2020. In addition, San Jose will be a major stop on the future California High-Speed Rail route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Jose Diridon station, Diridon Station (formerly Cahill Depot, 65 Cahill Street) is the meeting point of all regional commuter rail service in the area. It was built in 1935 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was refurbished in 1994.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, VTA also operates many bus routes in San Jose and the surrounding communities, as well as offering paratransit services to local residents. Additionally, the Highway 17 Express bus line connects central San Jose with Santa Cruz. Intercity bus providers include Greyhound Lines, Greyhound, BoltBus, Megabus (North America), Megabus, California Shuttle Bus, TUFESA, List of California cities with Aeroméxico bus service from Tijuana airport, Intercalifornias, Chinatown bus lines, Hoang, and Chinatown bus lines, USAsia. FlixBus also services the city with a stop at 129 W San Carlos.
Air
San Jose is served by San Jose International Airport, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport northwest of downtown, and by Reid-Hillview Airport, Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County, general aviation airport located in the eastern part of San Jose. San Jose residents also use San Francisco International Airport, a major international hub located to the northwest, and Oakland International Airport, another major international airport located to the north. The airport is also near the intersections of three major freeways, U.S. Route 101 in California, U.S. Route 101, Interstate 880 (California), Interstate 880, and California State Route 87, State Route 87.
Highways
The San Jose area is served by a freeway system that includes three Interstate Highway System, Interstate freeways and one United States Numbered Highways, U.S. Route. It is, however, the largest city in the country not served by a List of Interstate Highways, primary (one- or two-digit route number) Interstate; most of the Interstate Highway Network Interstate Highway System#Planning, was planned by the early 1950s well before San Jose's rapid growth decades later.
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, running parallel to the southeastern shore of San Francisco Bay
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. Interstate 680 (California), I-680 parallels I-880 to Fremont, California, Fremont, but then cuts northeast to the eastern cities of the San Francisco Bay Area
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.
Several state highways also serve San Jose: California State Route 17, SR 17, California State Route 85, SR 85, California State Route 87, SR 87 and California State Route 237, SR 237. Additionally, San Jose is served by a system of county-wide expressways, which includes the Almaden Expressway
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, San Tomas Expressway, and Lawrence Expressway.
Several regional transportation projects have been undertaken in recent years to manage congestion on San Jose freeways. This includes expanding California State Route 87, State Route 87 to add more lanes near the downtown San Jose area.
The interchange for I-280 connecting with I-680 and U.S. 101, a rush-hour spot where the three freeways meet, has been known to have high-density traffic similar to Los Angeles County interchanges. It was constructed years before its completion. The two bridges, with no on-ramps or off-ramps, stood over U.S. 101 at a height of 110 feet during the 1970s, before opening in 1981. In 2010, the interchange was named the Joe Colla Interchange.
Major highways:
* Interstate 280 (California), Interstate 280
* Interstate 680 (California), Interstate 680
* Interstate 880 (California), Interstate 880
* U.S. Route 101 in California, U.S. Route 101
* State Route 17
* California State Route 82, State Route 82
* California State Route 85, State Route 85
* California State Route 87, State Route 87
* California State Route 130, State Route 130
* California State Route 237, State Route 237
Bicycling
Central San Jose has seen a gradual expansion of bike lanes over the past decade, which now comprise a network of car-traffic-separated and buffered bike lanes. San Jose Bike Party is a volunteer-run monthly social cycling event that attracts up to 1,000 participants during summer months to "build community through bicycling". Unfortunately, fewer than one percent of city residents ride bicycles to work as their primary mode of transportation, a statistic unchanged in the past ten years. Typically, between 3 and 5 residents are struck and killed by car drivers while bicycling on San Jose streets each year.
Trail network
San Jose is crossed by several major regional off-street paved trails, most notably the Guadalupe River Trail, Los Gatos Creek Trail, and Coyote Creek Trail. These trails extend from near downtown San Jose for dozens of miles to the north and south, and are connected with each other via bicycle routes of varying quality. The city is planning to construct new trail extensions in the coming years including the Three Creeks Trail and San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail.
Notable people
Sister cities
San Jose has one of the oldest Twin towns and Sister cities, Sister City programs in the nation. In 1957, when the city established a relationship with Okayama, Japan, it was only the third Sister City relationship in the nation, which had begun the prior year. The Office of Economic Development coordinates the San Jose Sister City Program which is part of Sister Cities International. , there are eight sister cities:
* Okayama, Okayama, Okayama, Japan (established on May 26, 1957)
* San José, Costa Rica (1961)
* Veracruz, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (1975)
* Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan (1977)
* Dublin, Ireland (1986)
* Yekaterinburg, Russia (1992)
* Pune, India (1992)
* Guadalajara, Mexico (2014)
See also
* List of people from San Jose, California
* List of streets in San Jose, California, with name origins
* List of tallest buildings in San Jose, California
* Northern California Megaregion
Notes
References
Further reading
* Beilharz, Edwin A.; and DeMers Jr., Donald O.; ''San Jose: California's First City''; 1980,
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California Room
the San Jose Library's collection of research materials on the history of San Jose and Santa Clara Valley.
External links
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Visit San Jose
official tourism website
San Jose Chamber of Commerce
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Santa Clara County: California's Historic Silicon Valley
National Park Service
Up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera
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