{"id":344266,"date":"2026-06-03T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:55:07","slug":"santa-clara-co-measure-d-parcel-tax-to-fund-preservation-of-open-spaces-leads-by-slim-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344266\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara Co.: Measure D Parcel Tax To Fund Preservation Of Open Spaces Leads By Slim Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County voters have voted slightly in favor of Measure D, a parcel tax meant to protect open spaces, wildlife habitat, water resources, and agricultural land, according to early results from Tuesday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority&#8217;s Measure D proposes a $0.02 per square foot tax of building area on properties, capped at $7,500 per parcel.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the measure gathered enough signatures to qualify it for the ballot as an initiative so it will require approval by a simple majority of voters to pass.<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:50 p.m., 53.01% have voted in favor of the measure, and 46.99% against.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County voters have voted slightly in favor of Measure D, a parcel tax meant to protect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-344266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}