{"id":39021,"date":"2025-11-05T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:36:42","slug":"san-jose-to-consider-temporary-ban-on-new-smoke-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39021\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose to consider temporary ban on new smoke shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KRON;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 San Jose city leaders on Tuesday will decide if the city will stop issuing permits for new smoke shops over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The measure tries to slow down the explosion of tobacco shops set up over the past several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If passed, it will give the city two years to review existing regulations. The legislation could cap the number of tobacco shops and lounges, which city leaders say can be placed where controlled drugs are sold, and sometimes to minors.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose City Councilmember Peter Ortiz said that too often, the tobacco shops are especially concentrated in Latino communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the full report in the player above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) \u2014 San Jose city leaders on Tuesday will decide if the city will stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7934,88,90,89,8968],"class_list":["post-39021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-city-leaders","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-smoke-shops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021","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=39021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}