{"id":509128,"date":"2026-10-27T04:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509128\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:30:25","slug":"san-jose-city-council-to-vote-on-new-name-for-plaza-de-cesar-chavez-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509128\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose City Council to vote on new name for Plaza de C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Jose City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a new name for Plaza de C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, located in the heart of downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Jose Parks and Recreation Commission recommended renaming it to &#8220;Plaza del Pueblo de San Jose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PREVIOUS: <a data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose kickstarts process to rename Plaza de Cesar Chavez;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/city-san-jose-kickstarts-process-rename-plaza-de-cesar-chavez-following-allegations-parks-namesake\/19408043\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose kickstarts process to rename Plaza de Cesar Chavez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It combines two popular names narrowed down from community submissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose is one of many cities changing the names of public spaces after sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the late Cesar Chavez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a data-ylk=\"slk:New name proposed for SF&#039;s Cesar Chavez Street still honors farmworker labor movement;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/new-name-proposed-san-franciscos-cesar-chavez-street-sexual-abuse-allegations-late-leader\/19965902\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New name proposed for SF&#8217;s Cesar Chavez Street still honors farmworker labor movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The park has been colloquially referred to as &#8220;Plaza de San Jose&#8221; since the allegations came to light.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kgo_articles_913\/131c44567cfd550c1c93df1368fb6896.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re on the ABC7 News app, <a data-ylk=\"slk:click here to watch live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a new name for Plaza de C\u00e9sar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-509128","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\/509128","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=509128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}