{"id":451189,"date":"2026-09-02T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:58:56","slug":"san-jose-officials-to-vote-on-new-name-for-downtown-plaza-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451189\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose officials to vote on new name for downtown plaza \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose is one step closer to choosing a new name for its downtown plaza, with the options now narrowed to two.<\/p>\n<p>The plaza was previously named for labor leader Cesar Chavez, but city workers covered his name following serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/cesar-chavez-dolores-huerta-sex-abuse\/4053810\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Chavez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city then opened the renaming process to the public, with about 10,000 San Jose residents weighing in.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the process, the city sought a name that would honor the people behind the farmworker labor movement rather than one individual.<\/p>\n<p>Of the dozens of suggestions submitted, two finalists will go before the San Jose Parks and Recreation Commission for a vote Wednesday: Plaza de San Jose, which received the most public support, and Farmworker Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The commission is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Roosevelt Community Center near East Santa Clara and 20th streets. People who cannot attend in person can watch the meeting online.<\/p>\n<p>The name selected by the commission will be recommended to the full San Jose City Council, which is expected to make a final decision in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose is one step closer to choosing a new name for its downtown plaza, with the options&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-451189","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\/451189","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=451189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}