{"id":492257,"date":"2026-10-11T04:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T04:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:36:31","slug":"san-jose-tells-food-pantry-it-must-shut-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492257\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose tells food pantry it must shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A popular San Jose neighborhood food pantry is at risk of closing again after being hit with more zoning violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfoodrescue.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lighthouse Food Rescue &amp; Distribution<\/a> was cited by San Jose on Sept. 25 for hosting its food distribution on the sidewalk and for not following zoning rules, as a food distribution center is no longer permitted in that neighborhood. If the organization does not comply within 10 days by removing the distribution and canopies from the sidewalk, it will start incurring daily fines of up to $20,000 a day, according to the citation, which also says the food pantry must cease operations within 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional 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<p>\t\tTagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/community-services\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community services<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/food-distribution\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food distribution<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/food-insecurity\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food insecurity<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/food-pantry\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food pantry<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/homelessness\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homelessness<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/housing-insecurity\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">housing insecurity<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/hunger\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hunger<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/lighthouse-food-rescue\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lighthouse Food Rescue<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/nonprofits\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nonprofits<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/poverty\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poverty<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/san-jose\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/san-jose-city-council\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose City Council<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/south-bay\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">south bay<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/zoning\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zoning<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/zoning-violations\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zoning violations<\/a>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular San Jose neighborhood food pantry is at risk of closing again after being hit with more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[165426,19878,3400,3401,1493,3402,6103,191786,5466,1877,88,5500,90,89,200,8327,191787],"class_list":["post-492257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-community-services","tag-food-distribution","tag-food-insecurity","tag-food-pantry","tag-homelessness","tag-housing-insecurity","tag-hunger","tag-lighthouse-food-rescue","tag-nonprofits","tag-poverty","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-city-council","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-south-bay","tag-zoning","tag-zoning-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492257","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=492257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}