San Jose, California

San Jos� (officially the City of San Jos�) is a large city in the U.S. state of California and is the county seat of Santa Clara County, California. On April 3, 1979, the city council adopted San Jos� as the spelling of the city name on the city seal and official stationery. However, it is still more commonly spelled without the Diacritic. The city is located at the south end of the San Francisco Bay, within the informal boundaries of Silicon Valley, and is the largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2005, it reported an estimated population of 944,857, making it the most populous city in Northern California (it surpassed San Francisco, California in 1989) and third most populous city in the state, after Los Angeles, California and San Diego, California. United States Census Bureau estimates for 2004 indicate San Jose has overtaken Detroit, Michigan as the United States' tenth most populous city; according to the formal United States 2000 Census, it is ranked eleventh. All of these figures refer to the area within the city limits, which is the sense in which the word "city" is normally used in the U.S. and not to the urban area. The San Francisco Bay Area, of which San Jose forms part, is the fourth largest in the U.S. San Jos� was the first town in the Spanish colonization of the Americas of Nueva California (later Alta California), founded in 1777 as a farming community to provide food for nearby military installations. It served as the first capital of California after statehood was granted in 1850. After over 150 years as an agricultural center, increased demand for housing from soldiers and other veterans returning from World War II and starting families, as well as aggressive expansion during the 1950s and 1960s led first to San Jose being a bedroom community for Silicon Valley in the 1970s, then attracting businesses to the city; by 1990 the city was calling itself the ''Capital of Silicon Valley''. ==History== ===Site chosen by De Anza=== For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey, California and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portol� and Father Jun�pero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south. It is likely that Don Pedro Fages, the military governor at Monterey, passed through the area on his 1772 expedition to explore the East Bay (California). Late in 1775, Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition to bring colonists from New Spain to California and to locate sites for two missions, one presidio, and one pueblo (town). He left the colonists at Monterey in 1776, and explored north with a small group. He selected the sites of the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de As�s in what is now San Francisco, California; on his way back to Monterey, he sited Mission Santa Clara de As�s and the pueblo San Jos� in the Santa Clara Valley. De Anza returned to Mexico City before any of the settlements were actually founded, but his name lives on in many buildings and street names. ===Early Spanish pueblo=== El Pueblo de San Jos� de Guadalupe was founded by Jos� Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777, the first settlement not associated with a Spanish Missions of California or a military post (''presidio'') in Alta California. (Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara, California. Mission San Jos� de Guadalupe was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont, California.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by de Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68. In 1797, the pueblo was moved from its original location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Street, to a location in what is now Downtown San Jose, surrounding Pueblo Plaza (now Plaza de Cesar Chavez). ===Early statehood=== During the Bear Flag Revolt, Captain Thomas Fallon led a small force from Santa Cruz, California and captured the pueblo without bloodshed on July 11, 1846. Fallon received an Flag of the United States from John D. Sloat, and raised it over the pueblo on July 14, as the California Republic agreed to join the United States following the start of the Mexican-American War. Fallon would later become the tenth mayor of San Jose. During the California Gold Rush period, the New Almaden Mines just south of the city were the largest Mercury (element) mines in North America (mercury was used to help separate gold from ore). The cinnabar deposits had been discovered during the Mexico era, and mining operations began in 1845, the first operating mine in the province. The importance of the mercury industry at the time explains why the local newspaper is named the ''San Jose Mercury News''. On March 27, 1850, San Jose became the first incorporated city in the U.S. state of California, the first mayor was Josiah Belden. It also served as the state's first capital with the first and second sessions of the California Legislature, known as the ''Legislature of a Thousand Drinks'', being held there in 1850 and 1851. The legislature was unhappy with the location, as no buildings suitable for a state government were available in the city, and took up State Senator Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's offer to build a new capital on land he donated to the state in what is now Benicia, California. ===Notable events=== In 1881, because of a forceful campaign by editor J.J. Owen of the ''San Jose Mercury News'', the city council authorized the construction of the San Jose Electric Light Tower, ostensibly to replace the gas streetlights that had illuminated downtown San Jose since 1861. It didn't provide sufficient illumination, and by 1884 was used only for ceremonial purposes. It collapsed during a gale in 1915. In 1989, the city of San Jose filed suit against France and the Gustave Eiffel estate, claiming that the Eiffel Tower was a copyright infringement of the Electric Light Tower; the suit was eventually dismissed. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with its epicenter near Daly City [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/11/BAGB163KV81.DTL] between San Jose and San Francisco, devastated the few large buildings in San Jose. The city was still primarily rural and the population much smaller than San Francisco, so houses and businesses were not so closely built, providing no opportunity for a major fire like the one that destroyed the city up the Peninsula. The all-brick Agnews Asylum (later Agnews State Hospital) suffered possibly the worst damage in the San Jose area, killing over 100 people as the walls and roof collapsed. The 8-year-old San Jose High School's three-story stone and brick structure also collapsed, and many other buildings were severely damaged. The 1933 kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart resulted in mob violence in San Jose. About 10,000 residents (approximately 1/6 of the city's population at the time) stormed the jail and lynched the two men who had confessed to the killing. The case drew international attention to San Jose, for the kidnapping, lynching, and for the praise that Governor of California James Rolph directed to those who participated. It is also notable as the last public lynching in California's history. Photos of the lynchings were even used as Nazi propaganda. ===Agriculture=== For nearly two centuries a farming community, San Jose produced a significant amount of fruits and vegetables until the 1960s, and many past and current names of teams, streets, buildings, and so on reflect its agricultural beginnings. Plums, grapes, and apricots were some of the major crops. In 1922, the first commercial farming of broccoli in the US was started in San Jose, by brothers Stephano and Andrea D'Arrigo. The Del Monte cannery in Sunol-Midtown, California was the largest employer in the city for many years. ^#References Food Machinery Corporation (FMC) was founded in San Jose as the ''Bean Spray Pump Company'' in 1883. [http://www.fmc.com/Corporate/V2/GeneralDetail/0,1478,16,00.html] [http://www.fmctechnologies.com/FTI/__about_history_action/1,1114,1,00.html?] In 1941 the company received an order from the United States War Department for one thousand LVTs, bringing defense contracts to San Jose for the first time. FMC's military business would later be spun off into United Defense. [http://www.uniteddefense.com/co/history.htm] ===Major growth=== A. P. Hamann (nicknamed "Dutch") became city manager in 1950. At the time, the city had a population of 95,000 and a total area of only 17 mi². Hamann instituted an aggressive growth program by annexation of adjacent areas, such as Alviso, California, Cambrian Park, California, and other neighborhoods, and a program of dispersed urbanization, sometimes called "los angelization". Hamann also spent significant time on the East Coast of the United States, selling San Jose as an ideal place for businesses to expand into. Hamann's efforts resulted in an annual population growth rate of over eight percent. When Hamann left office in 1969, San Jose had grown to 495,000 residents and 136 mi². ^#References Following Hamann's retirement, anti-growth city councils came to power, cemented with the 1971 election of Norman Mineta as mayor. Under Mineta, the city adopted the "General Plan" that restricted development of land inside the incorporated area of San Jose and banned development in an additional 200 mi² east and south of the city, an area known as San Jose's ''sphere of influence''. To the west, communities such as Campbell, California and Cupertino, California had incorporated as cities to avoid being annexed to San Jose, while expansion to the north was impossible because of San Francisco Bay. The result was that there was no land available to build housing. The plan's goal was to bring population growth down to a more manageable level. ^#References However, with the boom of the electronics industry, specifically personal computers and integrated circuits, San Jose and the surrounding areas' population continued to grow rapidly. By 1980, the city's population was 630,000; it reached 782,000 by 1990; and 894,943 by 2000—at which point Santa Clara County as a whole had 1,682,585 residents. However, the city council passed another ''General Plan'' in 1994 with the original 1974 urban growth boundary intact. As a result, housing costs in San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area rose faster than the national average in the 1980s and 1990s; between 1976 and 2001, San Jose's housing costs increased by 936 percent, the fastest growth in the nation over that time. The average 2003 home price in Santa Clara County was approximately 330 percent of the national average. ^#References Many people's view of San Jose is still formed by the Dionne Warwick hit from the 1960s, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (neither of whom had spent time there and chose the name because it suited the tune), it includes the lyrics, "there's a lot of space in San Jose; there'll be a place where I can stay" and "I may go wrong and lose my way," and contrasts it to Los Angeles, "a great big freeway." In 1960, the population of San Jose was only 204,000, just over a fifth of the 2003 population. The only freeway through or near San Jose was U.S. Highway 101, which touched only the outermost edges of the city and was still a rural route or controlled by traffic lights in some areas. A large portion of the Santa Clara Valley still contained commercial orchards. == Law and government == :''See also'' Current leaders of San Jose, California, List of Mayors of San Jose, California San Jose is a charter city under California law, giving it the power to enact local ordinances that may conflict with state law, within the limits provided by the charter. The city has a council-manager government with a city manager nominated by the mayor and elected by the city council. The San Jose City Council is made up of ten council members elected by districts, and a mayor elected in an at-large election. During city council meetings, the mayor presides, and all eleven members can vote on any issue. The mayor has no veto powers. Council members and the mayor are elected to four-year terms; the even-numbered district council members beginning in 1994; the mayor and the odd-numbered district council members beginning in 1996. Council members and the mayor are limited to two successive terms in office, although a council member that has reached the term limit can be elected mayor, and vice versa. The council elects a vice-mayor from the members of the council at the second meeting of the year following a council election. This council member has the right to act as mayor during the temporary absence of the mayor, but does not have the right of succession to the mayor's office upon a vacancy.^#References The city manager is the chief administrative officer of the city, and must present an annual budget for approval by the city council. The council elects the manager for an indefinite term, and may at any time remove the manager, or the electorate may remove the manager through a recall election. Other city officers elected by the council are the city attorney, city auditor, and city clerk. ^#References Like all California cities except San Francisco, both the levels and the boundaries of what the city government controls is determined by the local county [http://www.santaclara.lafco.ca.gov Local Agency Formation Commission] (LAFCO). The goal of a LAFCO is to try to avoid uncontrolled urban sprawl. The Santa Clara County LAFCO has set boundaries of San Jose's 'Sphere of Influence' (indicated by the blue line in the map near the top of the page) as a superset of the actual city limits (the yellow area in the map), plus parts of the surrounding unincorporated county land, where San Jose can, for example, prevent development of fringe areas to concentrate city growth closer to the city's core. The LAFCO also defines a subset of the Sphere as an 'Urban Service Area' (indicated by the red line in the map), effectively limiting development to areas where urban infrastructure (sewers, electrical service, etc.) already exists. San Jose has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in the United States. During the 1990s and 2000s, the crime rate has consistently fallen. [http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats.cfm] In 2003 and 2004 the city was ranked as the safest American city with a population over 500,000 by the Morgan Quitno Awards. [http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm#500,000+] However, reports of police brutality have become more common. [http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/22/vietnamese.shooting.ap/] [http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2355136&nav=5D7lRMbK] [http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/10/1701805.php] The Office of Economic Development coordinates the San Jose Sister City Program. As of 2005, there are seven town twinning (aka twinned towns): Okayama, Okayama, Japan (established in 1957); San Jos�, Costa Rica (1961); Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (1975); Tainan, Taiwan (1975); Dublin, Ireland (1986); Pune, India (1992); and Ekaterinburg, Russia (1992). ==Geography== San Jose is located at 37°18'15" North, 121°52'22" West (37.304051, −121.872734)Geographic references. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 461.5 square kilometre (178.2 square mile). 452.9 km² (174.9 mi²) of it is land and 8.6 km² (3.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.86% water. San Jose lies near the San Andreas Fault; a major source of earthquake activity in California. The most serious earthquake, in 1906, damaged many buildings in San Jose as described earlier. Earlier significant quakes rocked the city in 1839, 1851, 1858, 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1891. The Daly City Earthquake of 1957 caused some damage. The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 also did some damage to parts of the city. The other faults near San Jose are the Monte Vista Fault, Hayward Fault Zone, Northern Calaveras Fault, and Central Calaveras Fault. The Guadalupe River (California) runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains (which separate the South Bay from the Pacific Coast) flowing north through San Jose, ending in the San Francisco Bay at Alviso, California. Along the southern part of the river is the neighborhood of Almaden Valley, originally named for the mercury (element) mines which produced mercury needed for gold extraction from quartz during the California gold rush as well as mercury fulminate blasting caps and detonators for the U.S. military from 1870 to 1945. The lowest point in San Jose is at sea level at the San Francisco Bay in Alviso; the highest is 4,372 feet (1,333 m) at Copernicus Peak, Mount Hamilton (California). Due to the proximity to Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton, San Jose has taken several steps to reduce light pollution, including replacing all street lamps with low pressure sodium lamps. To recognize the city's efforts, the asteroid 6216 San Jose was named after the city. Some residents object to the deep yellow color of the streetlights, saying they are distracting because they are the same shade of yellow as traffic lights and other illuminated traffic warnings--image of the similarity [http://www.baddesigns.com/strlt.html here]. ==Climate== San Jose, like most of the Bay Area, has a Mediterranean climate tempered by the presence of the San Francisco Bay. Unlike San Francisco, California, which is exposed to the ocean or Bay on three sides and whose temperature therefore varies relatively little year-round and overnight, San Jose lies more inland, protected on three sides by mountains. This shelters the city from rain and makes it more of a semiarid, near-desert area, with a mean annual rainfall of only 14.4 inches (366 mm), compared to some other parts of the Bay Area, which can get up to four times that amount. It also avoids San Francisco's omnipresent fog most of the year. However, temperatures are generally moderate. January's average high is 59 °F (15 �C) and average low is 42 �F (6 �C), with overnight freezes several nights each year; July's average high is 84 �F (29 �C) and average low is 58 �F (14 �C), with heat exceeding 100 �F (38 �C) several days each year. The highest temperature ever recorded in San Jose was 109 �F (42.8�C); the lowest was 21 �F (-6 �C). Temperatures between night and day can vary by 30 or 40 °F (17 to 22 �C). With the light rainfall, San Jose experiences over 300 days a year of full or significant sunshine. Rain occurs primarily in the months from October through April or May, with hardly any rainfall from June through September. During the winter, hillsides and fields turn green with native grasses and vegetation, although deciduous trees are bare; with the coming of the annual summer dry period, the vegetation dies and dries, giving the hills a golden cover, which some find beautiful but which also provides fuel for frequent grass fires. The snow level drops as low as 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level occasionally each winter, coating nearby Mount Hamilton with light snow that seldom lasts a day> This sometimes snarls traffic travelling on California State Route 17 towards Santa Cruz, California. Snow fell on the valley floor in San Jose most recently in January of 1976, about an inch (25 mm) that melted soon after the sun rose. Again, like most of the Bay Area, San Jose is made up of dozens of microclimates. Downtown San Jose experiences the lightest rainfall in the city, while South San Jose, only 10 miles (16 km) distant, experiences more rainfall and slightly more extreme temperatures. ==Economy== San Jose considers itself "the Capital of Silicon Valley." As such, its economy rises and falls with high-tech employment in the Bay Area. During the peak of the dot-com, employment, housing prices, and traffic congestion peaked, but all eased as the economy slowed during the first few years of the 21st century. As of 2003, the city reported 355,000 jobs within the city limits and an unemployment rate of 8.7%. The city lists 25 companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the headquarters of Adobe Systems, BEA Systems, Cisco Systems, Inc., and eBay, as well as major facilities for Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hitachi (company) and Lockheed Martin. Sizable government employers include the city, Santa Clara County, California, and San Jose State University. [http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/factsheet/employment.html] The cost of living in San Jose and the surrounding areas is among the highest in California and the nation; in the U.S. only New York City and San Francisco, California are more expensive. [http://www.fedc.com/ACCRACostofLivingIndex2ndQuarter2004.htm] Housing costs in the city are the primary reason for the high cost of living, although the costs in all areas tracked by ACCRA are above the national average. Despite the high cost of living, San Jose households have the highest disposable income on any large American city. San Jose residents produce more U.S. patents than any other city, the average worker productivity in San Jose is double the national average, and 35 percent of venture capital funds in the U.S. are invested in San Jose and Silicon Valley companies. [http://www.mostlivable.org/cities/sanjose/home_accolades.html] ==Demographics== :See also: Maps of San Jose, California [[Image:Asian_sj1.gif|thumb|250px|right|This thematic map shows the large Asian population in Saratoga, California, Cupertino, California, and the North Valley. ]] As of the census of 2000, there are 894,943 people, 276,598 households, and 203,576 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,976.1/km² (5,117.9/mi²). There are 281,841 housing units at an average density of 622.3/km² (1,611.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 47.49% White (U.S. Census), 3.50% African American (U.S. Census), 0.77% Native American (U.S. Census), 26.86% Asian (U.S. Census), 0.40% Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), 15.94% from Race (U.S. Census), and 5.04% from two or more races. 30.17% of the population are Hispanic (U.S. Census) or Latino (U.S. Census) of any race. There are 276,598 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.0% are Marriage living together, 11.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% are non-families. 18.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.20 and the average family size is 3.62. In the city the population is spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 35.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 103.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 102.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $70,243, and the median income for a family is $74,813. Males have a median income of $49,347 versus $36,936 for females. The per capita income for the city is $26,697. 8.8% of the population and 6.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 10.3% of those under the age of 18 and 7.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. Related topics: Maps of San Jose, California ==Arts and architecture== [[Image:San_Jose_Plumed_Serpent.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Plumed Serpent statue in Plaza de Cesar Chavez]] San Jose's downtown architecture is noted more for its limited height than for any particular buildings. Because the downtown area is in the flight path to nearby Mineta International Airport, there is a permanent height limit for all buildings. Municipal building projects have experimented more with architectural styles than have most private enterprises. The Children's Discovery Museum, Tech Museum of Innovation, and the San Jose Repertory Theater building have experimented with bold colors and unusual exteriors. The new City Hall, designed by Richard Meier & Partners opened in 2005 and is a notable addition to the growing collection of municipal building projects. Public art is an evolving attraction in the city. The City was one of the first to adopt a public art ordinance at 2% of capital improvement building project budgets, and the results of this commitment are beginning to have an impact on the visual landscape of the City. There is a considerable amount throughout the downtown area, and a growing collection in the City's neighborhood newer civic locations including libraries, parks, and fire stations. Of particular note, the Mineta Airport expansion will incorporate a program of Art & Technology into its development. Within the early efforts at public art, there are notable controversies. Two examples, include the statue of Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) in downtown which was controversial in its planning because some religious groups felt that it was pagan, and controversial in its implementation because many felt that the final statue by Robert Graham (sculptor) did not closely resemble a winged serpent, and was more noted for its expense than its aesthetics. [http://www.morrill.org/books/quetzalcoatl.shtml] And the statue of Thomas Fallon, met strong resistance from those who felt that these people were largely responsible for the decimation of early native populations. In 2001, the city sponsored SharkByte, an exhibit of decorated sharks, based on the mascot of the hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, and modeled after Chicago, Illinois's display of decorated cows [http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cows_on_parade.htm]. Large models of sharks were decorated in a variety of clever, colorful, or creative ways by local artists and were then displayed for months at dozens of locations around the city. Many displays were removed early because of vandalism. After the exhibition, the sharks were auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. The sharks can still be found in their new owners' homes and businesses. The city is home to many performance arts, including Opera San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. In addition, the annual Cinequest Film Festival in downtown has grown to over 60,000 attendees per year, becoming an important film festival for independent films. The HP Pavilion is one of the most active venues for events in the world. According to Billboard Magazine and Pollstar, the arena sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the United States, and third in the world after the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, England, and the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the period from January 1 – September 30, 2004. [http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/leigh_weimers/10045287.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp] Including sporting events, the HP Pavilion averages 184 events a year, or roughly one event for every two days, which is significantly higher than the average for NHL arenas. [http://www.sjredevelopment.org/101204/5-1DowntownTheaterUpdate.pdf] (caution, Portable Document Format) ==Sports== [[Image:HP Pavilion.jpg|thumb|300px|right|HP Pavilion]] San Jose is the home of the: *San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League *San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League *San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer *St Joseph's Hurling Club *San Jose Stealth of the National Lacrosse League *San Jose Giants of the California League of minor league baseball Previously, San Jose was home to the: *San Jose CyberRays of the Women's United Soccer Association *San Jose Lasers of the American Basketball League 1996-98 *Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association In addition to professional teams, San Jose hosts several sporting events. The SAP Open (formerly the Sybase Open) is an annual men's tennis tournament held at the HP Pavilion. The San Jose Grand Prix, scheduled to be held in July 2005, will bring Champ Car racing on a temporary road racing on Downtown streets. The city has also been selected to be one of five host cities for the inaugural Dew Action Sports Tour season; the San Jose event will be held in September 2005. In college sports, the San Jose State University ''Spartans'' are the local college team, but most of the city's population support either the Stanford University ''Cardinal'', the University of California, Berkeley ''Golden Bears'', or the Santa Clara University ''Broncos''. The Pacific Ten Conference Women's Basketball Championship is held at the HP Pavilion as well as either the men's or women's West Regional tournament during the National Collegiate Athletic Association's ''March Madness''. In 2004, the San Jose Sports Authority hosted the United States Olympic Committee trials for judo, taekwondo, trampolining and rhythmic gymnastics at the San Jose State Event Center. In August, 2004, the Authority hosted the USA All-Star Rugby Sevens Championships at Watson Bowl, east of Downtown. == Transportation== The San Jose area has a well-developed freeway system, including three Interstate highways—Interstate 280 (California), Interstate 880 (California), and Interstate 680 (California)—in addition to several federal and state highways, U.S. Highway 101, California State Route 85, California State Route 87, California State Highway 17, and California State Route 237. San Jose contains many expressways of the Santa Clara County expressway system. Commuter rail service to San Jose is provided by Amtrak, Caltrain (commuter rail service to San Francisco and Gilroy, California), Altamont Commuter Express (commuter rail service to Pleasanton, California and Stockton, California), and a local light-rail system connecting downtown to Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, Milpitas, California, and Almaden Valley, operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). During holidays, historic streetcars from the San Jose History Museum operate on the light rail lines in downtown. The VTA also operates many bus routes in San Jose and the surrounding communities, as well as offering paratransit services to local residents. Over the years, many plans to bring BART to San Jose have been suggested, but none have been built. San Jose is served by the medium-sized San Jose International Airport, two miles (3 km) northwest of downtown. San Jose residents also use San Francisco International Airport, a major international hub located 35 miles (56 km) to the northwest, and Oakland International Airport, another medium-sized airport located 35 miles (56 km) to the north. Although it touches San Francisco Bay, the city has no seaport. The old port at Alviso was never upgraded to handle cargo containers and is now closed. Seagoing container traffic goes through the Port of Oakland. Cargo rail service to San Jose is provided by Union Pacific Railroad. ==Utilities== Potable water is provided primarily by the private-sector San Jose Water Company, with some by the Great Oaks Water Company, and ten percent by the public-sector San Jose Municipal Water System. Great Oaks provides exclusively well water, while the other two provide water from multiple sources, including well water, and surface water from the Los Gatos Creek watershed, Santa Clara Valley Water District, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Garbage, wastewater treatment, and recycling services are overseen by the city of San Jose's Environmental Services Department. The no-sorting convenience and unusually long list of recyclable items has resulted in San Jose being one of very few cities that can boast that it recycles 64% of its waste. The list includes all plastic categories 1 through 7; aerosol cans and paint cans; polystyrene including "foam peanuts" and hard foam packing, such as in electronics and computer products' boxes; aluminum furniture; small metal appliances; metal pots and pans (including cast iron); and clean cotton, linen, polyester, rayon, and wool fabrics (for example, blankets, clothes, cloth diapers, rags, and sheets). Wastewater treatment happens at the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant, which treats and cleans the wastewater of the more than 1,500,000 people that live and work in the 300 square mile (780 km²) area encompassing San Jose, Santa Clara, California, Milpitas, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, California, Saratoga, California, and Monte Sereno, California. About ten percent of the treated wastewater is sold for irrigation ("water recycling") in San Jose, Santa Clara, and Milpitas, through local water providers San Jos� Municipal Water System, City of Milpitas Municipal Services, City of Santa Clara Water & Sewer Utility, Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose Water Company, and Great Oaks Water Company. Natural gas and electricity are provided by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Telephone service is provided primarily by SBC Communications. Cable television is provided by Comcast. ==Education== ===Colleges and universities=== San Jose is home to several colleges and university. The largest and most well known is San Jose State University, the original campus of the California State University system. Located in downtown San Jose since 1870, the university's 30,000 students in bachelor's and master's degree programs are primarily commuters from many areas in the South Bay. National Hispanic University, with an enrollment of 600, offers associate and bachelor's degrees and teaching credentials to its students, focusing on Hispanic students. Silicon Valley College offers bachelor's and associate degrees useful for workers in high technology industries. Lincoln Law School of San Jose offers law degrees, catering to working professionals. The San Jose campus of Golden Gate University offers business bachelor and Master of Business Administration degrees. San Jose's community colleges, San Jose City College and Evergreen Valley College, offer associate degrees, general education units to transfer to CSU and UC schools, and adult and continuing education programs. The University of California, Santa Cruz operates Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton (California). In addition, San Jose residents attend several other area universities, including Santa Clara University, De Anza College in Cupertino, California, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California, Berkeley. ===Primary and secondary education=== Most San Jose students go to schools in the San Jose Unified School District. Prior to 1954, California law required cities and school districts to have the same boundaries. When San Jose began expanding, rural school districts became one of the major opponents, as their territory and tax base was taken by the city. The city's legislators pushed a bill through the California Legislature, removing that requirement, and ending much of the opposition. The result is a patchwork of local school districts in the areas annexed after 1954.^#References Public education in the city is provided by four high school districts, fourteen elementary education districts, and four unified school districts (which provide both elementary and high schools). In addition to the main San Jose Unified School District, the unified school districts are Milpitas Unified School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Santa Clara Unified School District. The following districts use the "feeder" system: *Campbell Union High School District receives students from: **Cambrian School District **Campbell Union School District **Luther Burbank School District **Moreland School District **Union School District, San Jose. *East Side Union High School District receives students from: **Alum Rock Union School District **Berryessa Union School District **Evergreen Elementary School District **Franklin-McKinley School District **Mount Pleasant Elementary School District **Oak Grove School District **Orchard Elementary School District *Fremont Union High School District receives students from: **Cupertino Union School District. *Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District receives students from **Los Gatos Union School District. Private schools in San Jose are primarily run by religious groups. Many Roman Catholic churches operate schools, including four high schools: *Archbishop Mitty High School *Bellarmine College Preparatory *Private schools in San Jose, California *Private schools in San Jose, California [http://www.dsj.org/educate/schools_results.asp] There are two Baptist high schools, Private schools in San Jose, California and Private schools in San Jose, California. [http://www.city-data.com/city/San-Jose-California.html] Private schools in San Jose, California is a protestant high school in the North Valley neighborhood. There is also the nonsectarian K-12 Harker School. ===San Jose library system=== The San Jose City Library system is unique, with the main branch, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, combining the collections of the city's system with the San Jose State library when it opened in 2003. The library is the largest (built all at once) west of the Mississippi River, with a 1.5 million item collection. Additionally, the city has 20 neighborhood branches, including the Biblioteca Latinoamericana, specializing in Spanish language works. The East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library, a Carnegie library opened in 1908, is the last Carnegie library in Santa Clara County still operating as a public library, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Calabazas Branch has four primary language-specific collections: Chinese language, Japanese language, Korean language, and Russian language, in addition to its English texts. [http://sjlibrary.org/index.htm] ==Notable residents== Some notable people born in San Jose include: *Chuck Berry, guitarist and singer ([http://www.answers.com/topic/chuck-berry birthplace is disputed]) *Peggy Fleming, 1968 Winter Olympics figure skating gold medalist *Norman Mineta, former Mayor of San Jose, United States Secretary of Transportation *Jim Plunkett, American football quarterback *Pat Tillman, American football player, Army Ranger *Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer Some notable people who moved to San Jose include: *C�sar Ch�vez, farm labor leader *Mike Honda, member of the United States House of Representatives *Smothers Brothers musical comedy duo *Amy Tan, best-selling novelist, author of The Joy Luck Club :''See also'': List of notable residents of San Jose, California ==Neighborhoods==

Center	West Valley	North
Downtown San Jose	Burbank, Santa Clara County, California	Alviso, California
Japantown (San Jose)	Cambrian Park, California	Berryessa
Rose Garden (San Jose)	Rancho Rinconada	North Valley (San Jose)
Sunol-Midtown, California	West San Jose	South San Jose
Willow Glen	Winchester (San Jose)	Almaden Valley
Naglee Park (San Jose)	East San Jose	Blossom Valley
	Alum Rock, California	Coyote Valley
	East Foothills	Evergreen (San Jose)
	King and Story	Santa Teresa (San Jose)
	Little Portugal, San Jose	San Felipe Valley
		Silver Creek Valley

== Attractions == [[Image:MeerkatAtHappyHollow.jpg|right|thumb|135px|A meerkat at the Happy Hollow Zoo]] ===Parks, gardens, and other outdoor recreational sites=== *Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 4,147 acres (17 km²) of former mercury mines in South San Jose *Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.9 km²) in East San Jose, the oldest municipal park in California *Emma Prusch Farm Park, 43.5 acres (176,000 m²) in East San Jose. Donated by Emma Prusch to demonstrate the valley's agricultural past, it includes a 4-H barn (the largest in San Jose), community gardens, a rare-fruit orchard, demonstration gardens, picnic areas, and expanses of lawn. [http://www.sanjoseca.gov/prns/regionalparks/pfp/] *Kelley Park, including diverse facilities such as Happy Hollow (a child-centric amusement park), the Japanese Friendship Garden, History Park at Kelley Park, and the Portuguese Historical Museum within the history park *Kirk Park, home to the San Jose Young People's Theater *Overfelt Gardens, including the Chinese Cultural Garden *Plaza de C�sar Ch�vez, a small park in Downtown, hosts outdoor concerts and the Christmas in the Park display. *Raging Waters, water park with water slides and other water attractions *San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, 5� acre (22,000 m²) park in the Rose Garden neighborhood, featuring over 4,000 rose bushes [[Image:SJ-MOA2-crop.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Front of the San Jose Museum of Art; the remaining facade of San Jose's first post office. In the background, from left to right are the Knight Ridder headquarters tower, the Fairmont San Jose Hotel expansion tower, and the entrance to the Fairmont]] ===Museums, libraries, and other cultural collections=== *Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose *History Park at Kelley Park *Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, home of the largest Ludwig van Beethoven collection outside Europe *Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, the largest U.S. public library west of Mississippi River *Mexican Heritage Plaza, a museum and cultural center for Mexican Americans in the area *Portuguese Historical Museum *Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, home of the largest collection of Egyptian relics in the western United States *San Jose Museum of Art *The Tech Museum of Innovation ===Sports and event venues=== *HP Pavilion - home of the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks *San Jose Convention Center *San Jose Municipal Stadium, home of the minor league San Jose Giants. *Spartan Stadium, San Jose, home of San Jose State University football and the Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes ===Other structures=== *Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose), the oldest parish in California *Lick Observatory, home of what was once the largest telescope in the world *Sikh Gurdwara, the largest Gurdwara (a Sikh temple) in the United States *Peralta Adobe, a restored adobe home showing the lifestyle of Spanish and Mexican California *Winchester Mystery House, a sprawling, 160-room Victorian mansion built by Sarah Winchester ''See also'' attractions in adjacent communities in Santa_Clara_County%2C_California#Cities.2C_towns.2C_and_neighborhoods. ==Media== San Jose is served by local media as well as that of San Francisco and national media. The following lists include only local media. ===Print media=== In addition to the major English language newspapers, the daily San Jose Mercury News and the weekly alternative Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose is served by a variety of other local print media. The publisher of the Mercury News, Knight Ridder, also publishes the daily ''Nuevo Mundo'', serving San Jose's large Hispanic community along with other Spanish language-speaking residents, and ''Viet Mercury'', serving San Jose's large Vietnamese people community. The bilingual weeklies ''La Oferta'' and ''El-Observador'' have articles and advertisements in both English and Spanish. The glossy, monthly ''San Jose Magazine'' focuses more on the people and culture of San Jose than on "hard news", but has won awards for its news coverage from the Bay Area's most prestigious media organization, the Peninsula Press Club. ===Television=== *NTSC (traditional analog television) ** Channel 11: KNTV - NBC, "NBC 11", originally an American Broadcasting Company affiliate (San Jose's first television station) ** Channel 36: KICU - independent, "Action 36, Cable 6" ** Channel 48: KSTS - Telemundo ** Channel 54: KTEH - PBS ** Channel 65: KKPX - PAX Network *ATSC (digital television) ** Channel 12: KNTV - NBC ** Channel 41: KKPX - PAX Network ** Channel 49: KSTS - Telemundo ** Channel 50: KTEH - Public Broadcasting Service ** Channel 52: KICU - independent ===Radio=== Most people associate San Jose's technology leadership with computers, but in 1909 Charles D. Herrold started the world's first radio broadcasting station on the corner of First and San Fernando streets in San Jose, as "Station FN". The station eventually became today's San Francisco, California's KCBS-AM. *Amplitude modulation ** KLOK-AM 1170 kHz - Entravision ** KZSF 1370 kHz ** KSJX 1500 kHz - Multicultural Radio Broadcasting ** KLIV 1590 kHz - Empire Broadcasting *Frequency modulation ** KMTG 89.3 MHz - San Jose Unified School District ** KSJS 90.5 MHz - San Jose State University ** KSJO 92.3 MHz - Spanish language music, Citicasters ** KUFX 98.5 MHz - classic rock, Citicasters (slogan name is "98.5 KFOX") ** KBRG 100.3 MHz - Entravision ** KEZR 106.5 MHz - music mix, Infinity Broadcasting == References == * ¹[http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/PoliSci/faculty/christensen/flashback.htm Flashback: A short political history of San Jose] * ²[http://www.ti.org/vaupdate31.html San Jose case study, part one: the urban-growth boundary] * ³[http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Charter.htm San Jose City Charter] *Arbuckle, Clyde; ''Clyde Arbuckle's History of San Jose''; 1985 *Bruno, Andy; ''INCONSISTENCY ACCENTED BY SAN JOSE AND SAN JOSE''; San Jose Mercury News; February 15, 1996, p. 2E *[http://www.weather.com/activities/other/other/weather/climo-monthly-graph.html?locid=USCA0993&from=search The Weather Channel data for San Jose] ==See also== *List of school districts in Santa Clara County, California == External links == * [http://www.sanjoseca.gov/ City of San Jose Web site] * [http://www.terragalleria.com/california/california.san-jose.html Photos of San Jose - Terra Galleria] * [http://www.sjchamber.com San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce] * [http://www.electionvolunteer.com/ San Jose and Santa Clara Election Information] * [http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam/ HamCam] *[http://content.scu.edu/cgi-bin/queryresults.exe?CISOROOT=/svhocdm&CISOFIELD1=subjec&CISOBOX1=Earthquakes Pictures of damage from the 1906 earthquake at Silicon Valley History Online] ==Further reading== *Beilharz, Edwin A.; and DeMers Jr., Donald O.; ''San Jose: California's First City''; 1980, ISBN 0-932986-13-7 Cities in California San Jose, California San Francisco Bay Area Santa Clara County, California All-America City

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==Why I reverted addition to Category Coastal cities== The page :Category:Coastal cities includes in it's description that a city must have a port capable of handling international vessels. San Jose has no shipping activity at all, and the Marina at Alviso is often silted up and uselsess for presonal watercraft. User:Gentgeen 20:44, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Featured quality? == I've looked over the other featured articles about cities, and while I don't think this article is perfect yet, the quality of this article equals or exceeds those, in my opinion. Anyone else want to weigh in on this before I nominate it? User:Gentgeen 02:28, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I think it's worth a shot. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 06:51, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) Well, the fact that the article spent a day on the main page (as a selected anniversary) and didn't generate a single edit is a good measure that there's nothing obviously wrong with the article. Just to get more eyes on the article, I'm going to go through peer review before nominating it. User:Gentgeen 02:22, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Logo, seal, and flag == {|style="background:transparent;"| ||||| |} The convention in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities is to include the Flag and Seal in the info box. However, as San Jose's seal is included as part of the flag, I think it would be better to include the flag and the city logo in the info box. Any other opinions? I've included the three images so everyone can see them. User:Gentgeen 22:29, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I just put the logo in later in the article. Probably better to stick with convention. Wouldn't surprise me if lots of places included the seal on the flag. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 22:57, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Salmon and "major" US cities== I've removed "The river is the home to the only known salmon spawning run through a major U.S. downtown area, although the salmon run in the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington runs through the Industrial District, Seattle, Washington adjacent to Downtown Seattle." because I think the first part needs to define "major" (probably more narrowly than many people would) more specifically. Seattle and Portland, both in the top 30 by population, have salmon runs thru their downtowns. I think many people think of most or all of the top 25 as "major". == Official spelling (San Jose vs. San Jos�) == The article states, "In the 1970s, the city council officially adopted San Jos� as the spelling for the city name...". The city charter contradicts this (http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Charter.htm#Art1). What is the source for this information? :I lived here then. :-) WOuld be nice to find a reference for it, though, you're right. At the time it was a big news item (as in: wasn't it already spelled that way? Can you legislate language? or--this is america, not mexico--and all the expenses it would take to reprint all the stationery and everything). Seems to me that it went on for several days with discussions about the implications of the resolution. It's possible that it was revoked later--but you can still see that the city is ambivalent about it by looking through their web site and seeing the spellings--although the accented version is predominant. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 02:59, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC) Still looking--but in browsing the [http://www.amlegal.com/sanjose_ca/ Municipal Code], I see that they're using the accented version. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 03:05, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC) Here is a source: San Jose Mercury News (CA) February 15, 1996 Section: Living Edition: Morning Final Page: 2E Section:ACTION LINE Title: INCONSISTENCY ACCENTED BY SAN JOSE AND SAN JOSE Author: Andy Bruno "Rosemary O'Kane, airport spokeswoman, says the city council passed the directive on April 3, 1979, mandating the use of the official city seal (grapevines and sheaf of wheat) on all vehicles, letterheads, stationery and business cards. That same mandate directed the seal be changed to San Jose (with the accent mark and San Jose printed on all stationery supplies, which include the ''City of San Jose'' in its preprinted title. O'Kane says this directive had no bearing on any public signs, so the current airport signs without the accent are correct." User:Seitz 05:39, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Good work; thanks! I tried calling the city's information line and got nowhere (the person kept referring me back to the web site). I was going to try calling again later, but this pretty much clears it up. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 07:09, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Suing france== new addition on page says that ...sued france... about the eiffel tower, but it doesn't say who: city of San Jose? descendant of original designer? User:Elf | User talk:Elf 02:17, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC) :The city of San Jose, according to [http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/casivalley/a/electower.htm] and [http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Tower/tower11.html], which I've added to the article. User:Niteowlneils 22:05, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Police shooting details == The law and government section contains detailed descriptions of some specific, recent police shootings. Could we shorten this and make it more general by just including the current sentence "However, reports of police brutality have become more common.", followed by a list of references? :"Police brutality" is a little overused, but something along the lines you're suggesting is probably better than, as you say, one recent ongoing news story. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 05:46, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) I removed the details of the incidents, leaving just the references. I left in the term "police brutality" since that was what the original author wrote. User:Seitz 05:16, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Election information == I edited the information about city elections: * replaced the dates of the next council and mayoral elections with the dates when the current system began. That way the information doesn't have to be updated every two years. * clarified the term limits to reflect that they only limit successive terms. * moved information about the current vacancy in the office of Vice-Mayor to the "Current Leaders" article. * replaced the date of the next Vice-Mayoral election with a description of when each election takes place, again to avoid having to update the article after each election. User:Seitz 06:15, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) Good job. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 09:47, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Building height limit== Found this informative paragraph in a recommendation to increase the height limit for a small area[http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:4nXzB-_iFeEJ:www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/gp/PDF/Stuff_Reports/GP03-T-08_SR2003.pdf+san+jose+building+height+limit+airport&hl=en]: :The General Plan Transportation Policies state that development in the vicinity of airports should be regulated in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration guidelines. The Airport Land Use Commission height restriction for buildings in this area is 208 feet above mean sea level. Buildings proposed to be constructed at or above this elevation could pose an aviation safety hazard. The ground surface of the subject site is measured at 33 to 38 feet above mean sea level. Therefore, the proposed project to develop structures up to 150 feet in height would not exceed the 208-foot height restriction and would be consistent with the Airport Land Use Commission height restriction and the General Plan Transportation Policies. The Santa Clara County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) did review the proposed project to increase the maximum allowable building height to 150 feet and noted that the project site is located outside the ALUC referral boundary for the North San Jose Airport and therefore, had no comments regarding theproject However, then I found this article [http://archives.californiaaviation.org/airport/msg11074.html], which seems to say that there is no height limit and that many structures are much taller than what's discussed above. Guess I could always call San Jose and see whether I could find someone who knows... User:Elf | User talk:Elf 18:41, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) (in San Jose) ==Climate== There should probably be a climate section--seems to be a common part of both print city articles and Wikipedia city articles. I will probably try to write one someday if no one else does, but it would probably be more informative if written by someone who's been in the area longer than me (5 years). User:Niteowlneils 00:32, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Based on my many years of experience, the climate has two seasons: dust (hills are golden) and mud (hills are green). Or were you looking for something a little more, um, scientific? :-) User:Elf | User talk:Elf 01:21, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::LOL, um probably, although being a native of Seattle, where there are four distinct seasons (well, I suppose autumn and winter are often pretty similar), I would be inclined to concur with your summary. Ah, I see you've already done it. Thanks. User:Niteowlneils 01:48, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Stick map== Based on this map (a screenshot of a pdf at [http://www.scvmed.org/scc/assets/docs/6349442000CensusTracts.pdf the SC County site], our stick map seems to be incorrect. It most closely matches the "Urban Service Area", least matches the "Sphere of Influence", and mostly matches the incorporated area except in the southeast corner. Before it's fixed (probably by someone other than me, as I have zero expertise in computer graphics), we should be sure which we want to use. I assume the Wikipedia standard is usually the incorporated area, but since the terms "Urban Service Area" and "Sphere of Influence" are unfamiliar to me, I don't know for sure. Anybody know if they are CA-specific, SCC-specific, everywhere-but-Seattle-specific, or what? User:Niteowlneils 02:17, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) I don't know where those terms Urban Service Area and Sphere of Influence come from. As far as I know, the only distinction made in California law, as far as cities are concerned, is between incorporated cities and unincorporated land, which defaults to the control of a county. All parts of the state's land must be part of one of its 58 counties, and then can additionally be under the control of one city within a county. So I think the boundaries of the incorporated city of San Jose are the best option to go with. --User:Coolcaesar 03:11, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I'd agree with that--that's what *I* think of as San Jose, and I've lived in this valley since (harrrumph harrumph) a long while. I think we'd be better served by having the image with a caption, but currently the macro doesn't allow that. I actualy looked at the macro last week to see whether I could fix that, but I'm afraid I'd break some other things, like make those who don't want a caption suddenly have one or worse, so I didn't muck with it. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 05:15, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Well, I poked around and found that the terms are from SCCs LAFCO[http://santaclaracounty.org/lafco/aboutlafco_history.html], which seems to be uniquely Californian (at least by that acronym--other states may have similar bodies by other names)[http://calafco.org/about.htm]. I agree the incorporated boundaries are probably the way to go. If this image is used, it needs to be cropped--I just did a quick&dirty version for the discussion. Also, the copyright status is iffy--while based on PD data, county employees apparently added the SoF and UrbSArea boundaries, and while the pdf itself has no copyright notice, the site I got it from has one on the footer of every page. I guess we could contact the SCC Planning Dept and see if they claim a (c) on the pdf, and if so try to get them to release it under the free-ist licsense they're comfortable with. Also, it's pretty cluttered--it would be awesome if someone could clean it up. Oh well, I'm up and functioning earlier than normal, so I'm off to take pics of some of the east-facing buildings I'm usually too late to get unshadowed pics of. (Oh, and when it's being cropped or otherwise editted, a caption could be added as part of the image itself.) User:Niteowlneils 19:10, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC) OK, I figured since I own PaintShop Pro I might as well learn how to use it, so I cleaned up the map. Two caveats: Not every small patch of unincorporated land within the city limits is represented. In a couple areas with at least a half-dozen various size patches of unincorporated land within the city limits, the representation is, let's say, 'approximate', but I've spent more than 8 hours on this (over half doing pixel editing) and just don't have it in me to try and make it perfect, at least not in the near future. That said, I think it is still more accurate and informative than the current stick map. So, should I replace the stick map with mine, and if so, do people prefer a) plain, b) adjacent cities labeled, but not SJ itself, or c) SJ and adjacent cities labeled? Any tweaks suggested? :I like "C". The problem with legends in a diagram is that they're hard to localize (translate). On the other hand, the problem without legends in a diagram is that they're hard to understand. Sooooo.. IMHO go for it. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 20:22, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::8 hours!! That is above any beyond. I have just two minor suggestions. 1. Consider saving a clean version of the image (not from a jpeg source, if you have it) as a PNG to remove all of the jpeg artifacts. The file size should be much much smaller and the image will be more accurate and easier to read. 2. Consider a easier to distinguish color when in thumbnail format. Primary colors like red, blue or green would work better than the pale green IMO. Thanks. BTW, I also like version C. --User:ChrisRuvolo 00:23, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::It started as a printscreen image of a PDF :/ (not the image at the top of this section, but one that looked the same, except not being cutoff--the biggest pain was getting rid of all the black census lines correctly). I did try saving a PNG version, and it was 13% bigger, and looks identical. The SoI line is bluish, and the USArea line is reddish, so that leaves either yellow or a darker green. I'll play around with it. Oh, and a good chunk of the time, and part of why I was willing to do it, was learning the program--I'd never done much of anything with graphics programs before. User:Niteowlneils 03:06, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) Well, yellow does make the lines stand out better, which is a good thing. It also makes my kludgy unincorporated areas stand out better, which is a mixed blessing. Oh, they aren't really that noticable in thumbnail view at least. (replaced it with the county in the CA map in red--a bit more noticable. User:Niteowlneils 03:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) If someone gave me the translated text it would be a snap to plug it into the legend--I've saved many versions along the way to start from for most any request, actually. BTW I was kinda surprised there was no Spanish version of the article--just French, German, and Swedish. User:Niteowlneils 03:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) Here's building on ChrisRuolo's idea. It took a lot more touchup, but as I get more practice and confidence I'm getting much faster using the tools (I also cleaned up some things about the city names that were bothering me): :Nice, looks good to me. I'm surprised about the PNG being bigger. Have you tried PNGCrush? [http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/] You also might get better compression if you change the image to palette mode instead of RGB mode. --User:ChrisRuvolo 23:59, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC) :RE PNGCrush: It seems to only have compilable source available, no EXE. Given that it's only 132 K, and there are a number of people uploading 15 M photos (totally ridiculous, IMHO; besides being disk hogs, out of thumbnail mode you can only see a small fraction of the pic on the screen at one time, and printing would probably take an industrial-sized plotter. I think the Upload function should have a much smaller max size.) I don't know if it's worth spending any more time trying to shave off a few K. I'll probably add it to the article later today--I should probably add a bit of text about the LAFCO's role re SJ--probably in the Law and government section, I imagine. User:Niteowlneils 00:38, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::Ok, Using GIMP 1.0.x (don't ask, its old) I converted the 134330 byte JPG to a RGB PNG and it came out to 143902 (9k bigger). If I first converted it to a indexed palette (256-color, optimized palette, no dithering) and saved it as a PNG, the result is 29479 bytes. Much better. Going from a non-artifacted source should be a little better. BTW, for pngcrush binaries: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1689&package_id=6641&release_id=100821] (although it didn't help for the images I was working with) .. And yes, 15 meg photos is quite rediculous. --User:ChrisRuvolo 00:44, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::I was just coming back to add to my previous response, as I realized I had forgotten to address your palette/RGB comment. If you can tell me how to do it in PaintShop Pro (I scanned the menus and a few dialog boxes and nothing jumped out at me), I can try it here (remember, I am 100% new to graphics editing--Paintshop just happened to be on the hand-me-down office computer I got to take home as a 'parting gift' when I was layed-off, jeez, just a couple months shy of 2 yrs ago, now). Otherwise, let's use your version. User:Niteowlneils 01:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::I don't use PSP, but according to the online manual [http://www0.jasc.com/pub/en/psp900enug.pdf](PDF) there is an option for the format to save the PNG in under File > Export > PNG Optimizer. Set the "image type" to "Palette-Based". Turn dithering off. Under "method of color selection" try either "optimized median cut" or "optimized octree". I hope this works with your version. --User:ChrisRuvolo 02:01, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) Heh. Version 9. I'm using version 5--only option under Export is "Picture tube". Anyway, I got the color count down to 7 (at the peak it was over 7000), got the line widths more consistent, and did a bunch of other cleanup and added it to the article (also, it's down to 13k). From a graphics perspective, it's near perfect; as for exactly representing every unincorporated patch of land within the general city boundaries, it remains a bit imperfect in places. Along the way I learned a whole bunch more about PSP, especially tweaking the palette. User:Niteowlneils 19:09, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) :Good work. Thanks. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 19:35, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Annual rainfall== Re: "Can get 4x the rainfall or more--60" or more--" chgd to "up to 60" "... Some notes on rainfall from the web: *from [http://www.ci.larkspur.ca.us/40816.html] Larkspur consistently receives greater rainfall amounts than the majority of Marin County because it is in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais. Kentfield, which is upstream from Larkspur, has the highest average annual rainfall in the Bay Area--52.5 inches. (Elf notes--if this is its MEAN, it undoubtedly goes over 60 in various years.) *From [http://www.slvwd.com/boulder.htm], re boulder creek annual rainfall, a few numbers: **1977-78 80.37 **1978-79 46.73 **1979-80 65.06 **1980-81 36.44 **1981-82 87.17 **1982-83 111.48 **1983-84 46.53 **1984-85 43.21 **1985-86 72.30 **1986-87 29.15 **1987-88 33.91 **1988-89 33.93 **1989-90 28.32 **1990-91 32.50 :This isn't the mean, but it clearly went 6 to 8x sj's annual average. (I think it's interesting that after all those heavy years it then went to much lighter rainfall for several years. That's weather for ya!) So anyway there's probably a better way of phrasing the info, but it's clearly true that parts of the BA get 4x or more sj's average. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 18:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==City poulation misleading to non-Americans== Saying that it is the tenth largest city in the U.S without explaining that in America "city" always means "within city limits" is totally misleading for readers from much of the rest of the world, where the primary meaning of city is "urban area". I will add a qualification. User:Pcpcpc 00:38, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Statue of Quetzalcoatl== The article mentions that the statue was controversial because it "did not closely resemble a winged serpent." This fails to note what the statue actually ''does'' resemble, which would be a giant dog turd. Go ahead, look at the picture. This comparison is not only amusing, but has been widely noted in and around San Jose. Can we mention this in the article? hmmm? can we? please? :-) User:DaveTheRed 09:27, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Be Bold! However, remember if you include an opinion, it should be presented as such, and attributed to someone. Here's some links to help you out. [http://www.morrill.org/books/quetzalcoatl.shtml] [http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/quetzy.html] [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.18.01/cover/best-read-mon-0142.html] User:Gentgeen 12:19, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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