{"id":416090,"date":"2026-07-29T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416090\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:15:10","slug":"san-jose-narrows-down-choices-to-rename-plaza-de-cesar-chavez-five-finalists-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416090\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose narrows down choices to rename Plaza de C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez; five finalists emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">SAN JOSE RESIDENTS suggested more than 600 new names for one of the city\u2019s oldest public spaces. City officials have narrowed the final choices down to five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials are asking residents to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/29TD923\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fill out an online survey<\/a>\u00a0ranking the five potential new names for Plaza de C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez in downtown. The options are Plaza de San Jose, Plaza del Pueblo, Farmworkers Plaza, Plaza de Quetzalcoatl and Plaza Park. The city\u2019s ranked-choice survey opened Friday and will remain available until midnight Aug. 3. From there, the Parks and Recreation Commission on Sept. 2 will weigh the rankings before making a recommendation to the City Council, which will make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE RESIDENTS suggested more than 600 new names for one of the city\u2019s oldest public spaces. City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16847,6922,2000,4978,1725,166450,151650,67083,106376,88,5500,90,89,881],"class_list":["post-416090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-community-engagement","tag-contest","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-parks","tag-parks-and-recreation-commission","tag-plaza-de-cesar-chavez","tag-public-spaces","tag-renaming","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-city-council","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416090","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=416090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}