{"id":365983,"date":"2026-06-18T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:36:10","slug":"california-justices-deny-review-of-oakland-zoo-funding-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365983\/","title":{"rendered":"California Justices Deny Review of Oakland Zoo Funding Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"

A measure that Oakland, Calif., voters approved to fund the local zoo with a flat property tax will stand after a taxpayer watchdog group failed to convince the California Supreme Court to review the initiative.<\/p>\n

In March, the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, struck down<\/a> a portion of the ballot initiative\u2019s language for violating a state constitutional provision that bars conferring specific organizations with certain privileges, but upheld the remainder of the measure. <\/p>\n

The California Supreme Court\u2019s Wednesday order<\/a> halts the Alameda County Taxpayers\u2019 Association Inc.’s opposition to the voter initiative, which imposed a $68 annual parcel tax …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A measure that Oakland, Calif., voters approved to fund the local zoo with a flat property tax will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12875,12876,23387,74213,143,145,144,148527,98422],"class_list":["post-365983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ballot-initiatives","tag-constitutional-law","tag-election-results","tag-municipal-tax","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-state-environmental-legislation","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365983","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=365983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}